The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide for Managers and BoardsThis best-selling nuts-and-bolts workbook, now in its second edition, has become the gold standard for nonprofit managers and boards who must work through the budget cycle. The book offers practical tools and guidance for completing each step of the budgeting process. Designed to be comprehensive and easy to use, The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits provides everything budgeters and nonfinancial managers need to prepare, approve, and implement their own budgets. Includes new chapters on Zero-Based and Capital Budgeting as well as an accompanying website with spreadsheets, worksheets and a new budget-building software, the CMS Nonprofit Budget Builder, designed to help you implement the concepts in the book. The software includes an expandable standard chart of accounts (COA) and will aid in building, organizing, tracking and planning budgets. |
Contents
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Key Board and Staff Roles and Responsibilities | 12 |
PART TWO STEPBYSTEP BUDGETING GUIDELINES | 33 |
Orienting Program and Department Managers and Staff to Budgeting | 48 |
Developing OrganizationWide Operating Budgets | 55 |
Major Components of Operating Budgets | 68 |
Allocating Administrative Overhead and Shared Costs | 81 |
Revising Draft Operating Budgets | 86 |
Presenting Your Annual Budget Proposal to the Board | 107 |
Board Review Revision and Approval of the Final Budget | 113 |
Conclusion | 134 |
Worksheets with Sample Budget Formats | 144 |
Examples of Financial Reports for Analyzing and Monitoring | 154 |
Tools for Analyzing Financial Reports and Planning | 166 |
Example of a Detailed OrganizationWide Expense Budget | 177 |
Additional Useful Checklists and Examples | 188 |
Capital Budgeting | 98 |
Tools on the Accompanying CD | 195 |
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The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide for Managers ... Murray Dropkin,Jim Halpin,Bill La Touche No preview available - 2007 |
The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide for Managers ... Murray Dropkin,Jim Halpin,Bill La Touche No preview available - 2008 |
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