1 APAN Secretariat Report 21 July 2006 Dr. Wanchai Rivepiboon MD, APAN-Sec
2 Agenda n APAN Sec Activities n Financial Report n FY2006 Budget Plan
3 APAN Sec Activities n Host, maintain and update the APAN Website n Provide overall organization services for APAN meetings –Coordinated with local organizer in arranging for 22nd APAN meeting –Established communication with the organizers of 23rd APAN meeting
4 APAN Sec Activities (Cont ’ d) n Provide meeting summary report as well as posting the summary to the APAN website in a timely manner –21th APAN meeting –Program Committee monthly VC meetings –Organizing Committee monthly VC meetings
5 APAN Sec Activities (Cont ’ d) n Provide services to potential and existing APAN members –Process and maintain applications –Respond to inquiries and requests n APAN-NZ contact change to REANNZ n New associate member, MOST:Thailand
6 APAN Sec Activities (Cont ’ d) n Collect membership fees n Maintain APAN mailing lists –Updated mailing lists as per requests received n Encouraged potential groups to perceive importance of being APAN member and assisted them in subscribing process.
7 APAN Sec Activities (Cont ’ d) n Published organization’ s important information through pamphlets and other mediums. n Assisted and provided optimum financial support for 22nd APAN Meeting fellows (30 fellows)
8 APAN Sec Activities (Cont ’ d) n Monthly Newsletter n Provide general support to APAN members, committee and working groups –Coordinated with members in updating APAN link –Prepared information as per requests received
9 Financial Report (Jan 06 – Jun 06)
10 Table 1: Membership Contribution Based on Gross GDP No.MemberGDP (millions$)Square rootFee=round off*10 ($) 1AU410, ,000 2BD47, ,000 3CN1,237, ,000 4HK161, ,000 5IN515, ,000 6JP3,978, ,000 7KR476, ,000 8LK16, ,000 9MY95, ,000 10NP5,493741,000 11NZ99, ,000 12PK61, ,000 13PH77, ,000 14SG86, ,000 15TH126, ,000 16TW281, ,000
11 Table 2: Received Membership Fees
12 Table 3: Receivable Membership Fees
13 Table 4: Revenue (Jan 06 – June 06)
14 Table 5: Expenses (Jan 06 – Jun 06)
15 Table 6: Balance (as of 31 Jun 06)
16 Table 7: Expected Revenue (FY2006)
17 Table 8: Estimated Expenses (FY2006)
18 Table 9: Comparison of Estimated Expenses No.Description 2006 (US$) Estimated 2005 (US$)2004 (US$)2003 (US$) 1 Salary19,27737,92341,37036,500 2 Equipment3,000 7,339-1,200 3 Office Expense2,00012,3717,5906,810 4 Communication Cost Fellowship12,00015,85112,40311,100 6 Conference Supporting5,000-1,0002,000 7 International Travel12,00011,60812,9119,080 8 TAX + VAT 12,0009,869-5,420 9Miscellaneous1,000--1,601 Total Expenses 66,57795,49475,27473,711
19 Table 10: Comparison of Expenses from US$ FY
20 Table 11: Comparison Chart of Expected Expense
21 Table 12: Estimated Balance (FY2006)
22 Organization Updates n The transfer of partnership from Dr. Wanchai to Dr. Vimolrat will be effective when APAN Foundation is registered successfully. n Dr. Issariya has commenced as deputy MD since June 06 and she will join Secretariat team at the same time when Dr. Wanchai leaves.
23 Organization Updates (Cont ’ d) n At present, Thailand has 2 servers which are located at Uni-Net (master server) and Thaisarn (mirror server). n Mailing list has been moved to Uni- Net server successfully (master.apan.net). The database is completely checked.
24 Organization Updates (Cont ’ d) n We are able to generate user name for members in secretariat team. Thus, everyone can contact Pujan through or send to Dr. Vimolrat at
25 Organization Updates (Cont ’ d) n APAN Limited Partnership is being changed to APAN Foundation. n Being Limited Partnership, the organization has to pay a 7% VAT. n A foundation does not have to pay 7% VAT.
26 Thank you for your attention