Streetsmart financial basics for nonprofit managers / Thomas A. McLaughlin.

Praise for Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers, Third Edition "Tom McLaughlin is a proven master at making the daunting concepts of nonprofit financial management clear and engaging. This book is a superb introduction for new nonprofit executives, board members, and students. It...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McLaughlin, Thomas A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Wiley, 2016.
Edition:Fourth edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Structure of nonprofit organizations
  • Mission : managing your two bottom lines
  • Accounting as a second language : a nine-point program
  • Assets are for boards, activities are for managers
  • Balance sheets : how they get that way
  • Financial analysis : a few analytical tools
  • Beyond the C3 : alternate corporate structures
  • Nonprofit accounting : acknowledging the strings attached
  • Cost accounting : how much does it cost?
  • Auditing : choosing and using an auditor
  • Cash is king
  • Capital : not a four-letter word
  • Budgeting : taming the budget beast
  • Indirect costs and other despised items
  • Danger zone : cost reimbursement programs
  • Managing money-losing programs
  • The milestones of spending on overhead costs
  • Pricing : how much should it cost?
  • Profit : why and how much?
  • To raise more money, think cows
  • Owning a building : what's in it for you?
  • Insurance : the maddeningly complicated art of covering your assets
  • Internal controls for external goals
  • Scrutiny intensifies
  • Management controls : toward accountability for performance
  • Finance is oil, development is water
  • When do you CFO?
  • Business models and business plans
  • How to beat the next recession.