Financial Management for Nonprofit Organizations

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John Wiley & Sons, Apr 22, 1998 - Business & Economics - 624 pages
This cash management and investment handbook for nonprofit managers helps managers from diverse backgrounds learn to manage their organization's money. It examines traditional treasury functions including banking and cash flow and explores investment management and strategies for managing excess cash, endowment, and long-term (planned) gifts. It also examines financial management strategies that impact cash flow, including borrowing, risk management, benchmarking, and long-term planning. Addresses the needs of all types and sizes of organizations, from small religious groups and community social service agencies to major cultural institutions and colleges and universities. Includes a diskette with spreadsheet solutions to common financial management problems, such as interest rate calculations, basic yield calculations, financial rations and more.
 

Contents

Understanding Nonprofit Organizations
1
Using Financial Management to Accomplish Your Mission
42
Financial Roles and Responsibilities
67
LongRange Financial Planning and Strategy
104
Developing and Managing a Financial Plan
146
Financial Reports
182
Technology ToolsManaging Information
236
Types and Sources of Funding for Your Program
258
Investment Policy and Guidelines
367
Investing Principles Procedures and Operations for ShortTerm and LongTerm Endowment
407
FixedIncome Securities Portfolio Management and Investment Operations
483
Risk Management and Audit
537
Financial PolicyInternal and External
558
Evaluating Your Progress
568
Index
591
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Cash Management and Banking Relations
303
Managing Your Organizations Liabilities
336

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About the author (1998)

JO ANN HANKIN is a nationally recognized consultant in the field of fundraising, and financial/administrative management for nonprofits.

ALAN SEIDNER was the founder of Seidner & Company of Pasadena, California, an investment management and consulting firm. He is currently a Senior Consultant for Client Development with the Pyatt Broadmark Real Estate Lending Funds.

JOHN T. ZIETLOW, D.B.A., CTP, is a professor of finance at Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, MO, and he also teaches graduate nonprofit financial management at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis and Indiana University, Bloomington.

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