The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide for Managers and BoardsThis best-selling nuts-and-bolts workbook, now in its second edition, has become the gold standard for nonprofit managers and boards who must work through the budget cycle. The book offers practical tools and guidance for completing each step of the budgeting process. Designed to be comprehensive and easy to use, The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits provides everything budgeters and nonfinancial managers need to prepare, approve, and implement their own budgets. Includes new chapters on Zero-Based and Capital Budgeting as well as an accompanying website with spreadsheets, worksheets and a new budget-building software, the CMS Nonprofit Budget Builder, designed to help you implement the concepts in the book. The software includes an expandable standard chart of accounts (COA) and will aid in building, organizing, tracking and planning budgets. |
Contents
Chapter 5 | |
Strategies for Developing OrganizationWide Operating Budgets | |
Start withthe BudgetBuilding Checklist | |
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Contents of the Annual Budget Preparation Package | |
1 | |
Allocating Administrative Overhead and Shared Costs | |
When More and Deeper Cuts Are Needed | |
Capital Budgeting | |
E Two Types ofCapital Projects | |
Presenting Your Annual Budget Proposal to the Board | |
Board Review Revision andApproval ofthe FinalBudget | |
Tools for Analyzing Financial | |
A Planningfor ProgramorUnit Budget Development | |
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A Projected Income | |
Resource E Exampleofa Detailed | |
Resource F Additional Useful Checklistsand Examples | |
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The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide for Managers ... Murray Dropkin,Jim Halpin,Bill La Touche No preview available - 2007 |
The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide for Managers ... Murray Dropkin,Jim Halpin,Bill La Touche No preview available - 2008 |
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