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  • Best Practices for Internal Controls of Nonprofit Organizations offers a four-page overview on everything from cash disbursements to payroll to policies for managing assets. It also covers the intersection of personnel and financial manangement with recommendations for board conduct, segregation of staff duties, and documenting executive director expenditures.

  • Internal Controls to Help Deter Fraud is a video in the Nonprofit Accounting Basics educational webinar series, where CPA Shawn Miller (Calibre CPA Group) discusses the relationship between weak financial oversight and fraud, as well as deterrence and detection through strong internal controls. (

  • A template by the American Society of Association Executives for writing your own Request for Proposal (RFP) for Outsourced Accounting Services.

     

  • Appropriate document retention is important for a nonprofit's compliance with state and federal law, while balancing the need for managing storage space (both physical and digital). A clear policy for staff can prevent the innocent destruction or disposal of documents.

  • Establishing good fiscal policies and procedures is more of an investment of time and attention than money. There is no “one size fits all” template that will work for all organizations. This guide offers a recommended structure for policies and procedures as well as some questions to guide you in considering what is best for your organization. (CompassPoint, 2012) 

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