Creating Financial Transparency with Your IRS 990 Series (and Maintaining Tax Compliance)
Your finance office is driven by deadlines. Pay these bills by Friday. Close the books by the 10th. Pull these [...]
5 Questions to Ask Your Fund Accounting Vendor
When your nonprofit is looking to change its financial system, it would be nice to have a crystal ball. You’d [...]
Telling Your Nonprofit’s Financial Story: Key Elements for an Engaging Annual Report
It’s year-end wrap-up time. You’ve closed the books, successfully completed another audit season, and submitted all necessary filings. You are [...]
4 Best Practices for Setting Your Accounting Team Up for Success Next Year
It’s that time of year again—you’ve finally made it through your fiscal year-end, closed all your books easily, and had [...]
Meeting Today’s Challenges: Why Your Organization Needs a Modern CFO
Once, when asked what I do for a living, I responded, “I’m a CFO for nonprofits.” Instead of getting a [...]
Evaluating and Streamlining Your Annual Budgeting Process
Tips to help social good organizations streamline and improve the annual budgeting process.
Form 990: What You Need to Know About Filing for Your Nonprofit
It may feel like very few things involving the IRS are straightforward. But when it comes to nonprofit tax exemption, [...]
5 Ways Fund Accounting Software Makes Nonprofit Budgeting Simple
Building your nonprofit budget is often like putting together a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. You know what you want it to [...]
What to Do When Your Nonprofit Budget Gets Blindsided
With quickly evolving community needs and the ever-present possibility of a climate event or economic downturn, nonprofits know how to [...]
The Final Step of the Audit: Helping Your Board Understand the Nonprofit Audit Report
Your nonprofit audit should reinforce the good work that you do. This post shares tips for how to effectively share your financial statements with your board.
