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A Financial Dashboard Can Take Your Nonprofit Where It Wants to Go
Does your board have a quick and easy way to assess your nonprofit’s financial performance? It does if it has a dashboard with carefully chosen and up-to-date key performance indicators (KPIs). Dashboards can also be set up to provide critical information to multiple...
Using Agreed-Upon Procedures to Target Specific Items of Concern
Your CPA offers a wide menu of services. One flexible offering, known as an “agreed-upon procedures” engagement, provides limited assurance on a specific aspect of an organization’s financial or nonfinancial information. What’s Covered? Agreed-upon procedures can...
Once-in-a-Lifetime IRA to HSA Transfers
How to Share Your Nonprofit’s Values and Limit Fraud Losses
Every two years, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners releases its Report to the Nations, an occupational fraud study of for-profit, nonprofit and government organizations. As in previous editions, the 2022 study reports that most organizations require...
Why Auditors Prefer In-Person Interviews to Assess Fraud Risks
Auditing standards require financial statement auditors to identify and assess the risks of material misstatement due to fraud — and to determine overall and specific responses to those risks. Here’s why face-to-face meetings are essential when assessing these risks....
Deducting Business-Related Restaurant Meals
For a Stronger Nonprofit, Increase the Number of Income Streams
Nonprofits that rely on a single income source, or only a few, are vulnerable to economic shocks. The COVID-19 pandemic has made this particularly clear. Most organizations have had to scramble to make up for lost revenue when at least some of their usual support...
Is Your Current Bad Debt Allowance Reasonable?
In today’s volatile market conditions, it’s important to review your accounts receivable ledger and consider writing off stale, uncollectible accounts. The methods that you’ve used in the past to evaluate bad debts may no longer make sense. Here’s how to keep your...
Reviewing — and Possibly Revising — Your Nonprofit’s Spending Policy
A spending policy is the formula used to determine how much of the value of investments a nonprofit organization will tap each year for such expenses as operating costs and capital projects. Although it’s usually a good idea to stick with an established spending...