Bookkeeping for Nonprofits
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Bookkeeping for Nonprofits is a hands-on guide that
offers nonprofit leaders, managers, and staff the tools they need
to create and maintain a complete and accurate set of accounting
records. This much-needed resource provides those with little or
no bookkeeping experience with practical advice in a highly
accessible format.
Written by Murray Dropkin and Jim Halpin,
Bookkeeping for Nonprofits is a step-by-step introduction to
keeping accounting records, which form the foundation for a
nonprofit organization’s financial reports, tax returns,
budgets, cash forecasts, and grant proposals. Using this volume
as a guide, nonprofit leaders and staff will be able to set up
books with or without accounting software and ensure that the
records meet the needs of their organization.
Bookkeeping for Nonprofits is a comprehensive
resource that:
- Discusses how transactions provide day-to-day information for
tracking cash balances and cash requirements;
- Shows how transactions provide information to management and
the Board of Directors for budgeting and other essential
tasks;
- Explains basic bookkeeping concepts such as the accounting
equation, the chart of accounts, and income and expense
tracking;
- Guides readers through the nuts and bolts of recording a
transaction;
- Provides an overview of alternative recordkeeping
methodologies and how to choose among them.
Designed to be easy to use, the book is filled with
illustrations and checklists.
"Bookkeeping for Nonprofits
is the remarkable new guide for a new generation of accounting
challenges bookkeepers face every day."
- Frances Hesselbein, chairman and founding president, Leader to
Leader Institute
"Bookkeeping for Nonprofits
provides a rare combination of consummate professionalism and
clear, accessible writing. Underlying the wealth of technical
information lies a great deal of wisdom. The authors have found a
way to translate their enormous, on-the-ground experience into
usable, actionable policies, procedures, and practices. It is a
book that gives all you need to create a fiscally responsible
agency with the bonus of helping you become a better manager and
a wiser person."
- Peter Block, business consultant and author of Flawless
Consulting and The Empowered Manager
"Bookkeeping for Nonprofits
provides an excellent understanding of the practical application
of bookkeeping in the real work environment."
- Ron Werthman, vice president, finance/treasurer and CFO, Johns
Hopkins Health System, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
"This is a wonderful book
that every bookkeeper in a nonprofit organization should
have."
- Eusebio David, fiscal director, Federation of Multicultural
Programs, Inc.
The Authors
Murray Dropkin, C.P.A., M.B.A., is president of CMS
Systems, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in improving
the operational and financial operations of nonprofit and
for-profit organizations. He has published extensively in the
field of nonprofit accounting and is coauthor of The
Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits and The Cash Flow Management
Book for Nonprofits, both from Jossey-Bass. He co-edits Nonprofit
Report, a monthly newsletter on nonprofit accounting, taxation,
and management. He is coauthor of the three-volume Guide to
Audits for Nonprofit Organizations and frequently speaks at
professional meetings and consults around the country.
James Halpin, C.P.A., M.S., is a software
developer, systems consultant, and accountant specializing in
cost accounting concepts. Halpin has more than thirty years of
experience in accounting, auditing, taxation, management
consulting, software development, and computer consulting. He
co-edits the monthly Nonprofit Report newsletter.
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