RE: Summary / Analysis of Functional Reporting

[Kevin Wilson <kevin.wilson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Summary and analysis of public comments for:
FUNCTIONAL REPORTING/MORE DETAILED EXPENSE REPORTING
Comment period ended: 2 March 2009...kept open for more comments
Summary published:  14 May 2009
Prepared by:  Kevin Wilson, CFO

I.  BACKGROUND
ICANN recently posted on the dashboard, the functional reporting.  This is a 
new more detailed expense reporting which is in response to community feedback 
and to facilitate a better understanding of ICANN's budget priorities and 
efficiencies of spending.

This comment request was to encourage community members to provide feedback on 
the substance and form of the reporting to help ICANN adjust the budget formats 
in FY10 and beyond as well as to systematize the monthly dashboard variance 
analyses.

II.  GENERAL COMMENTS and CONTRIBUTORS
As of the 10th of May informally extended deadline, a total of 3 community 
submissions have been made to this comment forum.  Two of the submissions were 
advertisements (one of those was in Spanish).  The one contribution summarized 
and analyzed here was:

Chuck Gomes (CG)

III.  SUMMARY & ANALYSIS
CG supports the concept of more detailed expense reporting and believes even 
more details need to be reported.   CG believes that the forum for the 
breakdown whether the dashboard or elsewhere is to be discussed.  In any case, 
the breakdown between supporting organizations and advisory councils (SO/AC) 
needs to be provided.   The monthly variance analysis of this would be helpful, 
but the budget, at a  minimum should be presented as such.   This will allow 
cost benefit analyses as well as facilitate an understanding of the 
relationship between the contributions to ICANN vs the resources required from 
ICANN for each SO/AC.

Although not posted, staff has heard appreciation for more detailed expense 
reporting and appreciation for posting on the dashboard.  Staff has repeatedly 
heard from community members requests for even more expense details, and in 
particular the breakdown of expenses in categories consistent with the 
community member's stakeholder interest group.

IV.  NEXT STEPS

ICANN has committed to provide even more detailed expense reporting to be 
posted for community comment.   The FY10 budget will be reported on in the 
functional reporting format, and the periodic variance reports as reported on 
the dashboard will be presented as well.
Kevin Wilson
CFO
ICANN
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