Budgeting Your Way to Financial Stability - Softcover

Ruegg, Debra; Fraser, Terry; Howden, Anne; Stevens, Susan Kenny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965220885 ISBN 13: 9780965220880

Publisher: LarsonAllen Public Service Group, 2002

Synopsis

The budget is the nonprofit industry’s most commonly prepared and widely accepted financial instrument. Yet few nonprofits use the budget to its fullest advantage. Today’s reality calls for a more considered approach to budgeting. As funds get tighter and competition stiffer, savvy nonprofits need solid financial know-how to adjust to market realities and ensure program sustainability.

Budgeting Your Way to Financial Stability provides nonprofit managers and board members the tools they need to understand and strengthen their budgeting practices.

This hands-on workbook will show you:

· How to approach budgeting

· What type of budget will work best for your organization

· How to adopt an income-based approach to budgeting

· How to better understand and fund your indirect costs

· How to segregate program costs from one another

· How to use the budget to set pricing and develop unit costs

· How to use the budget to establish cash reserves

This practical guide is written especially for small and mid-size nonprofits. Numerous examples and timesaving worksheets are included throughout the text, in addition to a companion CD.

About this title

About the Author:

LarsonAllen Public Service Group provides consulting, training, audit and accounting to nonprofits, foundation, educational institutions and government entities.

Review:

"Combines philosophical insights about the role of money in nonprofits with no-nonsense, hands-on practical exercises." -- Maribel Alvarez Co- Founder and former Executive Director San Jose Center for Latino Arts

About this edition

• Publisher: LarsonAllen Public Service Group
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0965220885
• ISBN 13: 9780965220880
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112