This highly interactive 60-minute webinar will cover: Building Financial Health The 3 Keys to Financial Health The board’s role in financial management How to understand financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, and budget) using your organization’s own reports Using…
Introducing…Fun with Financials 2.0! As many of you know, Carol started Fun with Financials in 2004 seeing a need to support the finance & compliance areas for the social justice community. After six years of Fun with Financials brilliance…
November might be NaNoWriMo —National Novel Writing Month. Here at Fun with Financials 2012 is NaProMaWriYe —National Procedures Manual Writing Year. If you’ve been playing along at home, congratulations! You are on your way to finishing your Procedures Manual.…
Traditionally, Americans take this time of year to reflect on our good fortune. We spend a few moments being grateful. Publicly. We give our money. We give our time. We show gratitude and generosity to those we love and…
Congratulations!!! If you’ve kept up with this Procedures Manual production schedule, you are 3/4s of the way to completion. If you need to catch up, you can start here. After writing about insurance, only two sections will remain. Just in…
Now that you’ve successfully answered questions about providing financial reports to your board, let’s tackle the financial reports you must send to Uncle Sam and to your state government. When you finish this chapter, you will be 3/4’s of the…
Now that you have successfully written the chapter on Reviewing General Ledgers, it’s time to move to Financial Reports. These reports communicate your organization’s financial health to the board of directors. Reviewing them, understanding them and discussing them enables board…
In honor of the 45th anniversary of the installation of the world’s first ATM (location: Enfield Town, England), Fun with Financials raises its glass to celebrate. And then asks you to complete the next chapter of the Procedures Manual about…
First the good news… In 2010, organizations explicitly serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) communities received $97.2 million dollars from US foundations – a 3.9% increase over the previous year. [So say the Funders for LGBTQ Issues…
Guess what time it is? Time to write another installment of your Procedures Manual. If you’ve been playing along at home, you’re now halfway through creating your manual. And if you need to catch up, start by clicking here. This…