Association for Asian Studies Inc.

“The membership elects a representative to the board for their group.”

“The organization requires aas membership vote to make any changes to the by-laws.”

“No review was or will be conducted. The cfo examines the form 990 to ensure that it matches the audit report as well as other spreadsheets provided to the preparer.”

“Each year the officers, directors and key employees are asked to disclose and sign a list of conflict of interests.”

“Executive director's salary is reviewed by the four aas presidents who are the officers of the board of directors, this is compared to the salary of someone in a similar position.”

“The four aas presidents of the board review the salary and performance of the director of outreach and strategic initiatives.”

“The aas constitution and by-laws are made publicly available on the entity website. The conflict of interest policy is not a public document. The financial statements are made available to grant and other funding agencies upon request and on-line via guidestar.org.”

“The client recorded a subsequent audit adjustment of 316 related to accrued wages and vacation pay. This reduced the entity's net revenues less expenses by the same amount.”

“Volunteers serve as associate journal editors, book review editors, publication advisory committee members, read books to nominate, determine book prize winners, read graduate student panel papers to determine prize winners, determine publication subventions for first time published authors, review various grant applications and determine awardees, review conference panel proposals and determine eligible panels for annual conference, help determine policy and propose panels for conferences to ensure adequate representation of geographic regions, serve on committees, councils and the board of directors.”

“The collect of membership dues, the activities to provide member benefits, and the provision of funds to aas councils to enable their activities.”

“Advertising-other 990-t -5,421 0 0 annual meeting special panel 4,702 0 0 copyediting 2,691 0 0 council a mtg panel 5,014 0 0 council subvention/outreach 32,650 0 0 design/composition 20,241 0 0 development fund expense 151,295 0 0 dues 0 7,311 0 editor fringe benefits 44,249 0 0 editor release time 22,817 0 0 editorial office 3,291 0 0 general expense 6 941 19 grant admin service charge 38,102 0 0 grant expense/support teachin 421,185 0 0 maintenance/serv contract 0 2,736 0 managing editor fees 79,308 0 0 office cleaning 0 1,740 0 office equipment 0 21 0 outside services 85,284 2,084 91 personal services 158,692 0 60,916 prize awards 18,200 0 0 publications storage 700 0 0 readership allocation -319,381 0 0 training 1,610 128 0 ubit taxes 9,448 0 0 total 774,683 14,961 61,026”