Fiscal Issues & Geeky Stuff

This is a tentative outline for my PA 5920 Skill Workshop: Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations. You can click on the links to get additional references for related topics. Comments and questions are welcome!

1. What are nonprofit organizations?
        ❑ What is in a name?
        ❑ Basics of nonprofit management
                • Formation, structure, and tax exempt status
                • National taxonomy of exempt entities (details)
        ❑ Key fiscal issues for nonprofits
                • Nonprofit accountability
                • Nonprofit and government
                • Nonprofit fiscal stress
                
2. Nonprofit finance and budgeting
        ❑ Revenue sources
                • Service fees: from individuals or organizations
                • Fund-raising: sources and issues
                • Other revenues (investment, membership due, etc)
        ❑ Functional expenses
                • Program expenses
                • Administrative expenses
                • Fund-raising expenses
        ❑ Borrowing
                • Types of nonprofit borrowing
        ❑ Nonprofit budgeting
                • Budgeting process
                • Budgeting techniques
        
4. Nonprofit financial reports
        ❑ Requirements of financial reporting
                • IRS990: where to get it? how to read it?
                • Requirements at the state level
                • Some special issues (Urban Institute)
        ❑ Nonprofit financial accounting
                • Statement of activities
                • Statement of financial position
                • Statement of cash flows
        ❑ Nonprofit financial conditions
                • Financial condition analysis
                • Assessing financial vulnerability of nonprofits
                • Pros and cons of nonprofit financial comparison

*: Click here to download the PowerPoint file of the lecture in PDF (updated 01/17/2009).