Book description
The complete guide to the basics of nonprofit financial managementLet's be honest. Most books about financial management are densely written, heavy on jargon, and light on practicality. Expert financial consultant and author Tom McLaughlin takes a different approach with his fourth edition of Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers. This comprehensive guide provides effective, easy-to-use tips, tools, resources, and analyses.
The light, humorous tone in Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers makes it an accessible resource for nonprofit executives, board members, students, and those new to the field. This book forgoes useless, pretentious verbiage in order to outline real-world strategies that work. This edition includes:
- New insights, updates, vignettes, case studies, and examples to deal with the implications of nonprofit financial management
- An examination of nonprofit business models in relation to growing demands from the government and other funders
- How to construct business plans for virtually any nonprofit entity
- Customizable resources—including financial worksheets, forms, and Excel templates to help nonprofit managers complete their day to day assignments
- A guided tour through common aspects of nonprofit management, such as financial analysis, accounting, and operations
Practical and informative, Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers is the go-to financial management reference for nonprofit managers, boards of directors, and funders.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note to Reader
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Part One: Analysis
- Chapter 1: Structure of Nonprofit Organizations
- Chapter 2: Mission: Managing Your Two Bottom Lines
- Chapter 3: Accounting as a Second Language: A Nine-Point Program
- Chapter 4: Assets Are for Boards, Activities Are for Managers
- Chapter 5: Balance Sheets: How They Get That Way
- Chapter 6: Financial Analysis: A Few Analytical Tools
- Chapter 7: Beyond the C3: Alternate Corporate Structures
- Part Two: Accounting
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Part Three: Operations
- Chapter 11: Cash Is King
- Chapter 12: Capital: Not a Four-Letter Word
- Chapter 13: Budgeting: Taming the Budget Beast
- Chapter 14: Indirect Costs and Other Despised Items
- Chapter 15: Managing Money-Losing Programs
- Chapter 16: The Milestones of Spending on Overhead Costs
- Chapter 17: Pricing: How Much Should It Cost?
- Chapter 18: Profit: Why and How Much?
- Chapter 19: To Raise More Money, Think Cows
- Chapter 20: Owning a Building: What's in It for You?
- Chapter 21: Insurance: The Maddeningly Complicated Art of Covering Your Assets
- Chapter 22: Internal Controls for External Goals
- Chapter 23: Scrutiny Intensifies
- Chapter 24: Management Controls: Toward Accountability for Performance
- Part Four: Planning, Control, and Miscellaneous
- Appendix A: A Financial Management Cultural Primer
- Appendix B: Budget Bloopers
- Appendix C: Using the Website: Table of Contents with Commentary
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2016
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781119061151
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