Nonprofit CPE: Financial Essentials for Non-Profit Managers
Managers of nonprofit organizations generally are not skilled in financial matters. Or, managers may be preoccupied with its welfare objectives and fund raising and ignore the operations efficiency and operating cost controls. A series of appropriate questions that nonprofit financial managers must address in connection with an organization’s financial condition and activity include: 1. Do we have a profit or a loss? 2. Do we have sufficient reserves? 3. Are we liquid? 4. Do we have strong internal controls? 5. Are we operating efficiently? 6. Are we meeting our budget? 7. Are our programs valid? 8. Are we competing successfully? 9. Is our prioritizing of programs and activities reasonable? The course is an attempt to help answer these questions. Furthermore, it attempts to address recent management planning tools, such as time series forecasting, aggregate production planning, ABC analysis, and material requirements planning, to facilitate better demand and resource management.
Course information
Course No. 7015
Format: Online pdf (277 pages).
Prerequisites: None
Advance Preparation:None
Level: Intermediate
CPE Credit: 12 hrs.
Field of Study: Finance: Technical
Course expiration: You have one year from date of purchase to complete the course.
Course Revision Date: January 2023
Objectives
After completing this course, participants should be able to:
Chapter 1
1. Recognize financing options available to nonprofit organizations.
2. Identify different cost types and classification for the nonprofit organization.
3. Recognize costs that are relevant to nonprofit decision making.
Chapter 2
1. Recognize the accounting method used by NPOs.
2. Identify the processes of budget recording and accountability.
3. Distinguish between a contribution and an exchange transaction.
4. Distinguish between conditional and unconditional contributions.
Chapter 3
1. Differentiate among the methods to analyze financial statements.
2. Recognize components of the break even analysis.
Chapter 4
1. Recognize different examples of trend analysis.
2. Identify objectives in analyzing the statement of activities and different performance measures.
Chapter 5
1. Identify different examples of qualitative and quantitative forecasting methodology.
Chapter 6
1. Identify the various types of budgets.
2. Recognize the characteristics of different budgets and how to measure their effectiveness.
Chapter 7
1. Recognize the elements and characteristics of Zero Base Budgeting (ZBB).
2. Identify the characteristics and the time considerations of program budgeting process.
Chapter 8
1. Identify how cost behavior and variance analysis can assist with the budgeting process.
2. Calculate different costs and variances for the budgeting process.
Chapter 9
1. Recognize use of mission centers and service centers for NPOs.
2. Identify the role of the contribution approach to cost allocation for measuring performance of responsibility centers.
3. Recognize how cost allocations can affect performance metrics for managerial control
Chapter 10
1. Calculate costs associated with different sources financing.
2. Estimate future NPO budgets based on past donations.
3. Differentiate between fixed, variable and semi-variable costs.
4. Calculate the cost of long-term debt financing.
Chapter 11
1. Identify examples of the various cash models available.
2. Recognize costs that impact working capital.
3. Differentiate between investment objectives.
4. Identify different financial instruments available for investing surplus funds
Chapter 12
1. Recognize the purpose for allocating service center costs to mission centers.
2. Differentiate among cost allocation techniques using the direct method, step-down (two-stage) method, and reciprocal method.
3. Identify the benefits of activity-based costing (ABC) and some factors that can be used in ABC.
Chapter 13
1. Compute the present values and pay-back periods in a make or buy decision.
2. Identify different types of investment instruments and financial models.