The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits: A Step-By-Step Guide for Managers and Boards: Step by Step - A Practical Workbook for Managers and Boards (Jossey-Bass Nonprofit & Public Management Series) - Softcover

Dropkin, Murray; Murray, Dropkin; LA Touche, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787940364 ISBN 13: 9780787940362

Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1998

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Provides clarity, strategy, and utility to the financial management and asset management of social sector organizations.
--Frances Hesselbein, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management

This nuts-and-bolts workbook guides nonprofit executives and boards through the budget cycle, offering practical instruction on completing each step of the process. This one-source budgeting tool kit is specifically designed to give nonprofits everything they need to prepare, approve, and implement their own budgets. It is a start-to-finish guide that is comprehensive and easy to use. It provides smaller nonprofit budgeters and non-financial nonprofit managers with a simple, systematic method to create, maintain, and track their budgets. Examples, to-do lists, worksheets, schedules, and other hands-on tools help readers get down to work. Murray Dropkin draws on years of experience in working with nonprofit financial management to make this workbook an essential tool for anyone involved in financial management within a nonprofit organization.

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MURRAY DROPKIN is a the managing partner of the accounting firm Dropkin and Company, Certified Public Accountants, which specializes in working with nonprofit organizations. Dropkin has published extensively within the field of nonprofit accounting. He coedits The Nonprofit Report, a monthly newsletter on nonprofit accounting, taxation, and management, and coauthored the three-volume Guide to Audits of Nonprofit Organizations. BILL LATOUCHE has, over the last thirty years, used his writing, planning, training and organizing skills to help a wide range of individuals, groups, and organizations get what they want from complex business, governmental and nonprofit entities. Bill has served as a Fellow of the Institute for Individual and Organizational Development, and is coeditor of The Nonprofit Report.

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"This is a book every nonprofit needs."?Peter F. Drucker

"Provides clarity, strategy, and utility to the financial management and asset management of social sector organizations."?Frances Hesselbein

"This book is clear, insightful and required reading for all who are responsible for the success of not for profits. If you work for or run a not for profit agency you should read this book"?Peter Block, author of Flawless Consulting and The Empowered Manager

"The Budget Building Book for Nonprofits is a definitive and practical guide to the art of budgeting. It is well written and reliable as well as easily understandable."?Ron Werthman, vice president, finance/treasurer and CFO, Johns Hopkins Health System, The Johns Hopkins Hospital

This nuts-and-bolts workbook guides nonprofit managers and boards through the budget cycle, offering practical tools for completing each step of the process. Comprehensive and easy to use, The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits provides everything budgeters and non-financial managers need to prepare, approve, and implement their own budgets.
Examples, to-do lists, worksheets, schedules and other hands-on tools help readers:

• Establish budgeting policies and procedures
  
• Prepare budgeting requests
  
• Present the budget to top management and boards
  
• Create a budgeting calendar
  
• Orient program and department managers to budgeting
  
• Estimate income and expenses
  
• Determine how the board should review the budget
  
• And much more

Based on the authors' years of experience in working with nonprofit management and finance, this workbook is an essential tool for anyone involved in financial management within a nonprofit organization. This workbook addresses the importance of budgets and budgeting, basic types of nonprofit budgets, and budget implementation, tracking, and reporting. The Budget Building Book for Nonprofits provides the solid foundation and hands-on tools for building successful, effective budgets.

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"This is a book every nonprofit needs."?Peter F. Drucker"Provides clarity, strategy, and utility to the financial management and asset management of social sector organizations."?Frances Hesselbein"This book is clear, insightful and required reading for all who are responsible for the success of not for profits. If you work for or run a not for profit agency you should read this book"?Peter Block, author of Flawless Consulting and The Empowered Manager"The Budget Building Book for Nonprofits is a definitive and practical guide to the art of budgeting. It is well written and reliable as well as easily understandable."?Ron Werthman, vice president, finance/treasurer and CFO, Johns Hopkins Health System, The Johns Hopkins HospitalThis nuts-and-bolts workbook guides nonprofit managers and boards through the budget cycle, offering practical tools for completing each step of the process. Comprehensive and easy to use, The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits provides everything budgeters and non-financial managers need to prepare, approve, and implement their own budgets.Examples, to-do lists, worksheets, schedules and other hands-on tools help readers:? Establish budgeting policies and procedures? Prepare budgeting requests? Present the budget to top management and boards? Create a budgeting calAndar? Orient program and department managers to budgeting? Estimate income and expenses? Determine how the board should review the budget? And much moreBased on the authors' years of experience in working with nonprofit management and finance, this workbook is an essential tool for anyone involved in financial management within a nonprofit organization. This workbook addresses the importance of budgets and budgeting, basic types of nonprofit budgets, and budget implementation, tracking, and reporting. The Budget Building Book for Nonprofits provides the solid foundation and hands-on tools for building successful, effective budgets.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0787940364
• ISBN 13: 9780787940362
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 157
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