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How Are You Judged? Coping with Ugly Ratios
Donors, lawmakers, and other stakeholders are looking at your nonprofit's "program efficiency ratio" (PER) as an indicator of good stewardship. However, this ratio doesn't paint the entire picture.
How Much Profit Does a Nonprofit Need?
This article will identify the key variables and explain how any organization can calculate the minimum profit it needs to prevent slow, steady erosion of the quality of its output.
How to Claim the Health Care Tax Credit
Many nonprofits have been wondering how to claim the small employer health care tax credit. Get answers from Small Business Health Care Tax Credit Questions and Answers: How to Claim the Credit.
How To Develop Your Nonprofit Operating Reserve
Examine common factors that organizations should take into account when considering how much to set aside for their operating reserve.
How To Hire the Right Bookkeeper
Since there is no education credential or professional license for bookkeepers, their skillls can range widely. In this article, Mig Murphy Sistrom, CPA, provides a brief quiz that will help you determine if you need a skilled bookkeeper or not.
Investing for Impact: Indirect Costs Are Essential for Success
This report addresses how governments that hire charitable nonprofits to deliver services and then reimburse them for less than reasonable indirect costs undermine the ability of nonprofits to deliver high quality services.
IRS Publication 1771, Charitable Contributions - Substantiation and Disclosure Requirements
The publication explains the federal tax law for organizations such as charities and churches that receive tax-deductible charitable contributions and for taxpayers who make contributions.
Loans From Nonprofit Board Members
In many nonprofits, a time comes when the question arises: should the organization accept personal loans from board members? Although this article does not try to answer that question, it does outline some of the choices in how such loans can be made and can be used as a starting point for discussion with your board or personal financial advisor.
Make Good Use of the Treasurer & Finance Committee
Kate Barr, executive director of Propel Nonprofits, lays out how to understand the roles of the treasurer and finance committee, along with how to recruit for these positions.
Managing in Hard Times
Get best practices and tools for managers of environmental and conservation nonprofits in challenging economic times. Learn how to track your finances, recognize danger signs, assess your options, and make tough decisions fairly with the best interests of the organization in mind.
Managing Restricted Funds
Unique accounting standards require that nonprofi ts report contributed income in one of three categories: unrestricted, temporarily restricted, or permanently restricted. This resource aims to define unrestricted, temporarily restricted, and permanently restricted income and give nonprofit leaders the tools to record, report, and effectively manage contributed income and net assets.
Maximizing Nonprofit Internal Controls: An Essential Guide for Even the Most Pure
Whether your nonprofit is more like an intimate family or an enormous well-oiled machine, fraud can occur, and when it happens, it can damage your reputation, relationships with funders, and staff morale. In other words, you can't afford it.
Public Disclosure Requirement
Pension Protection Act of 2006 enacted numerous changes to the tax law provisions affecting tax-exempt organizations, including public disclosure of UBIT Returns
Nonprofit Audit Guide
The National Council of Nonprofits has created this Nonprofit Audit Guide to provide charitable nonprofits with the tools they need to make informed decisions about independent audits.
Nonprofit Financial Policy Guidelines
Developing and adopting a written financial policy clarifies the roles, authority, and responsibilities for essential financial management activities and decisions.