Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers

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Essential, accessible guidelines for interpreting and using financial information

"A wonderful resource for nonprofit managers and board members alike. It hits the mark by simplifying accounting concepts and providing practical advice that can help nonprofits achieve a higher degree of accountability."
-Paula Van Ness, President and CEO, Make-A-Wish Foundation® of America

"After thirty-three years of managing in the nonprofit sector, I find I could have used the information in Streetsmart when I first began my career. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in the effective management of nonprofit organizations."
-George W. Kessinger, President and CEO, Goodwill Industries International, Inc.

"The first edition of McLaughlin's book was a masterpiece-clearly written, concise, and insightful. These traits also characterize the Second Edition. This is an excellent text for students and also a reference that every nonprofit professional should have on their bookshelf."
-Norman A. Dolch, PhD, Director of the Nonprofit Programs and Professor of Sociology
Louisiana State University in Shreveport

"Tom McLaughlin contributes a valuable tool to those working for the betterment of society in the nonprofit fields: an important, highly readable, intelligent review of those issues which determine success and failure. All too often, well-meaning nonprofit managers find their organizations in constant crisis due to their mission-focus and mission-drive to the detriment of sound financial management. Streetsmart Financial Basics is a fast way of balancing management skills short of returning for an MBA."
-Jeffrey R. Solomon, PhD, President, The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies

The Second Edition of this popular resource explains in plain English how to read, interpret, and implement financial data from bookkeepers and accountants to make management decisions that ensure an organization's long-term financial viability. Organized into four distinct parts-Analysis, Accounting, Operations, and Control-this book offers a host of hands-on resources for managers, including:

A CD-ROM containing spreadsheet templates for financial reports, word-processing checklists, sample documents, and real-world examples of management in action
Dozens of easy-to-read charts, tables, checklists, and instructive sidebars
Inserted text boxes highlighting supplemental information
Special comments in the narrative linking the material to personal financial management matters

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Provides essential, accessible guidelines for interpreting and using financial information. Explains in plain English how to read, interpret, and implement financial data from bookkeepers and accountants to make management decisions that ensure an organization's long-term financial viability.

Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers

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Excellent intro to accounting/finance for the novice.

Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers
Thomas A. McLaughlin
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 047111457X

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Get the financial tools you need to make sound business decisions for your nonprofit organization

Nonprofit managers, let this book show you how to become a better consumer of financial information. To get the most out of the information your bookkeepers and accountants provide, you need to understand and interpret it correctly. Written by Thomas McLaughlin, a nonprofit management expert, it cuts through technical jargon and complex mathematical contortions to give you the nuts and bolts of nonprofit financial managementâas it happens in the real world. In a friendly, informal style, McLaughlin schools you in all the important terms and concepts, explains how to read and interpret financial reports, shows you how to analyze and control costs, provides practical tips for budgeting, and much more.

Clear, easy-to-follow explanations of financial management essentials, from balance sheets and cost analyses to budgeting and internal cost control

More than 50 easy-to-read charts, tables, checklists, and instructive sidebars
Lots of real-world examples based on the author's experience as a manager, consultant, and instructor
Discussions centering around IRS Form 990âthe government form which drives virtually all nonprofit accounting and financial reporting in the United States
An IBM-compatible disk containing templates for financial reports, checklists, sample documents and other handy tools that you can copy, modify, and use

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Excellent intro to accounting/finance for the novice........1999-08-30

As a new manager of a small/medium-sized nonprofit organization (20 staff), I needed to get up to speed quickly on accounting and finance principles, but didn't have time to take a course. This book was a great help. It's written in a conversation style, not in dry "accountant-speak," and gives the reader a good overview, with examples of all major accounting and finance concepts you are likely to run across. It even had a floppy disk with a variety of simple spreadsheets for you to learn from as you walked through each chapter. My only complaint was the spreadsheets on the disk are in an early form of Lotus 1-2-3, so those of us with Microsoft Excel have a hard time printing out these older documents cleanly (some of the formatting doesn't translate well).

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Business Wire : Peet's Coffee & Tea, Inc. to Report Its Fourth Quarter and 2004 Year-End Earnings, and Present at the Roth Capital Partners 17th Annual Growth Stock Conference.

Manufacturer: Business Wire
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B0007UUEMC
Release Date: 2005-03-11

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CAPITAL & ITS EARNINGS (Foundations of Accounting)

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CAPITAL & ITS EARNINGS (Foundations of Accounting)
Clark
Manufacturer: Garland Science
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0824061233

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Originally published in 1888, it became one of the earliest publications of the newly formed American Economic Association and the first major work on economic theory to appear in America - a landmark in the history of economics.

Private sector training and its impact on the earnings of young workers (NBER working paper series ; working paper)

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Private sector training and its impact on the earnings of young workers (NBER working paper series ; working paper)
Lisa M Lynch
Manufacturer: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Volmatic revenue, a system of financing government exclusively with its own earnings and not in part with the earnings of labor and capital

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Volmatic revenue, a system of financing government exclusively with its own earnings and not in part with the earnings of labor and capital
Otto Cullman
Manufacturer: Columbia Printing Company
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007HNS14

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The ex-urbanite's complete & illustrated easy-does-it first-time farmer's guide: A useful book
Bill Kaysing
Manufacturer: Straight Arrow Books; [distributed by World Pub. Co., New York
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B0006CUZ0C

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The Ex-Urbanite's Complete and Illustrated Easy-Does-It First-Time Farmer's Guide: A Useful Book
William Kaysing
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0000020478

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First Time Farmer's Guide, A Useful Book : The Ex-Urbanite's Complete & Illustrated Easy-Does-It; Bill Kaysing's The Ex Urbanite's Complete & Illustrated Easy Does It First Time Farmer's Guide, A Useful Book
Bill Kaysing
Manufacturer: Straight Arrow Book
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0879320087

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At the intersection of environmental science and human biology this book deals with dry ecosystems - aridity, droughts, wind and its influence on soils and regulation - the societies affected by these ecosystems, and the inventiveness of those living under these conditions. These environments are the basis of nomad existence, of irrigated agriculture and of the first civilisations dependent on streams. Changes in the modern epoch, the ever-increasing technology and demographic development show that environmental degradation and the socio-economic situation cannot be explained by just one factor. This book tries to answer the question whether long-lasting development is possible in dry environments.

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Terrible, awful ending....

The Three Faces of Michelle

Author's Indecision Taints Interesting Ideas

Devoid of Subtilty

Delicious

Confessions of a Bigamist: A Novel
Kate Lehrer
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Binding: Paperback

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White Widow

ASIN: 1400083206
Release Date: 2005-05-24

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What happens when love strikes twice—and the second time it does you are already satisfactorily, even happily, married? Michelle Banyon has a successful career as a lifestyle guru and “efficiency consultant.” She lives in Manhattan with her kind but thoroughly overworked international-lawyer husband. They are the perfect twenty-first-century couple: successful, self-sufficient, and understanding of the all-too-frequent absences that can sometimes make theirs a virtual marriage.

While lecturing in Texas, Michelle literally runs into Wilson Collins as she’s backing out of a parking space. The handsome Texan is badly banged up, and Michelle performs one kindness after another as she tries to help him. A friendship blooms and, almost as quickly, love does, too. Unlike everyone else in Michelle’s life, Wilson has simple needs and desires and, to her immense surprise, she finds that she is someone very different when she’s with him. It’s not that she doesn’t love her husband—she does. She just happens to love two men, and the second one wants to marry her, too.

Confessions of a Bigamist is a romantic, thought-provoking novel that explores the question: Could you be happy living two entirely different lives?

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Terrible, awful ending...........2005-06-28

I cannot beleive I wasted precious reading time on this novel. Did you ever have a book that you wanted to throw across the room after reading the ending?? Well, this book was that one for me.

I never connected to Michelle, Mickey or Daisy. I never connected to any of the characters!. Please dont waste your
time!

The Three Faces of Michelle.......2005-01-17

Michelle can't figure out what type of person she is, and she's running away from her past and everything Indiana represents. When she goes back to confront her Indiana sister, Andrea, she notes how beat up Andrea looks and how no woman in New York would look as old as Andrea, even if they are actually the same age. In this way Kate Lehrer manages to alienate a whole slew of Indiana readers. I don't think it's true and I've seen plenty of New York women who look like hags. Check it out next time you go to New York! Anyhow she has one husband Steve, who's not above a little shady business practice, he is a wealthy lawyer whose Christmas bonus is almost half a million dollars. And still Michelle's not satisfied. She has her own business advising women to de-clutter their lives, get rid of old magazines, boyfriends, you know, "he's just not that into you." When she runs over Wilson Collins, I took it that someone must have advised Kate Lehrer to make sure her hero and heroine "meet cute." Taking care of Wilson, she falls in love and decides to depart with him on a romantic vacation in the rain forest, where the two get closer and closer.

I like all the parts where Michelle (who calls herself "Mickey" after Wilson tells her she seems like a "Mickey" rather than a Michelle) feels like she's falling apart. From childhood she has been afraid of snakes and tangly things of all kinds, they embody chaos for her and make her feel as though she were about to die. At age 47 she has an amazing breakthrough, I'm not giving away any spoilers that aren't in the title of the book when I say that she takes the career advice of the novelist Anais Nin, who also had two husbands, and managed to have a successful career on top of that. Kate Lehrer may not like Indiana women, but she likes individuality, good posture, and happiness for all concerned. When Michelle begins to internalize her many selves, and has a bit of a health scare, you'll feel for her in every sick moment.

Author's Indecision Taints Interesting Ideas.......2004-11-27

I was very intrigued by the possibilities inherent in Confessions of a Bigamist. Specifically, I was interested in the idea of a woman being the party practicing bigamy; something that has traditionally been a male practice in those cultures that condone it. Lehrer spiced up these possibilities by posing interesting questions throughout the book, like "Is over-dedication to work a form of bigamy?" and "Is it possible to be equally in love with two different people because each appeals to one's different sides."

Regrettably, Confessions of a Bigamist never reaches its potential because Lehrer doesn't seem to know whether she wants to write a social commentary or a romantic fantasy. This condition is best seen in her treatment of the protagonist's bigamy. Michelle Banyon does not deliberately choose a life of bigamy; she takes it on because she is afraid to lose her lover. Since her choice is out of panic, Michelle comes across as one who can't make up her mind about what she wants in her life. Consequently, it's hard for the reader to empathize with a main character who is simply out of control. Lehrer compounds her main character's flaws by never fully exploring themes that she introduces. Time after time, she poses a question or hints at an opinion, but never answers the query or expressly states a view. When she does get close to expressing an opinion, as is the case with her ideas on the compartmentalization of personal and professional lives, Lehrer backs away from the topic and returns to the "safer" forum of romantic fantasy. As a result, I was left wondering if Lehrer doesn't feel strongly about the issues she raises.

Confessions of a Bigamist is rife with possibilities. Lehrer does a good job laying out those possibilities by portraying the situations and ironies that permeate her protagonist's life (especially ironic was the fact that an efficiency expert could have such a complicated life). But, because Lehrer doesn't seem to be able to resolve any of these possibilities, she ends up falling back on the old cliche: "You can have it all!" Ultimately though, Lehrer's attempt to "have it all" in her own writing falls flat because there is no resolution.

Devoid of Subtilty .......2004-08-26

I'm surprised that such a shallow, heavy-handed book was considered publishable. From the start, the book pounds the reader with the main character's "double life" without a trace of grace or subtilty. It reads like "young adult" fiction, except that it doesn't have any likable characters. The one interesting result of reading this book is to see how such a potentially interesting topic like bigamy can be so boring when addressed by an incompetent writer.

Delicious.......2004-07-11

A refreshing and very entertaining look at a male-dominated subject written in Lehrer's typically graceful and incisive style... She should gain many new fans with this book. It's wonderful.

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A POWERFUL AND REVEALING LOOK AT THE SUDAN.......2005-05-17

After reading Author Deng's book: WAR OF VISIONS: CONFLICTS OF IDENTITIES IN THE SUDAN, I came away with a profound respect for the scholarship and comprehensivenes of this writer's work. WAR OF VISIONS is indeed a tour de force in the discussion of Sudan and its' cultural problems. As an author, myself, of a new book on the Sudan: JIHAD: The Mahdi Rebellion in the Sudan I must pay homage to Ms. Deng. Her clarity of thought and deep understanding of the various cultures in Sudan from North to South have created a fine volume for everyone to read. Islamic Radicalism today has some of its' roots in Sudan going back to the 7th cenury. But we must remember that it was in the 19th century when the British and French began the colonization of North Africa for the purpose of commercial advantages. The British moved into Egypt and Sudan in the latter part of the 19th century to secure their interests in commerce. When they bought out Khedive Ismail's shares in the Suez Canal(nominal head of Egypt at the time) the British now had access to the riches of East Africa and the Indian sub-continent. Meanwhile, as Deng points out, a new virulent form of Islamic Fundamentalism arose in the Central Sudan under one Mohammed Ahmed ("the Mahdi")that challenged the British, the Turks and the Egyptians. In particular, the Beja tribes of the Red Sea Hills became the key element in defeating British and Allied Forces in the Eastern Sudan. An excellent read! Perhaps, readers of Ms. Deng's book, WAR OF VISIONS might also want to take a look at my new book, JIHAD: THE MAHDI REBELLION IN THE SUDAN. While not a general history, JIHAD encapsulates a short period in time and shows the development of Islamic Fundamentalism in Sudan and its' historical relationship to radical Islamic beliefs today.The terrorism that arose after 2001 in Iraq, Saudi-Arabia, Sudan and other Arab regions that challenged America can be traced back to the forces that germinated and grew over a full century. Please also visit my Online Newspaper: The Iraqi Crisis and Worldwide Jihad at: http://journals.aol.com/mfradin42/TheIraqiCrisisandWorldwideJihad

One of the best books I have read, and I have read a few........2000-12-24

Deng is as good a writer as he is a diplomat. He combines history with poetry, music, and folklore. The writing is clear, and Deng does not assume that his reader is already a scholar of the Horn of Africa. This epic -- almost 600-page -- book is as valuable for its prose as it is for its analysis of the civil war in the Sudan. I read this whole thing in less than a week.

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Volume V: A Time for Healing.

A Time for Healing chronicles a time of rapid economic and social progress. Yet this phenomenal success, explains Edward S. Shapiro, came at a cost. Shapiro takes seriously the potential threat to Jewish culture posed by assimilation and intermarriage--asking if the Jewish people, having already endured so much, will survive America's freedom and affluence as well.

A Time For Healing (American Jewry Since World War II)

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A Time For Healing (American Jewry Since World War II)
Edward S. Shapiro
Manufacturer: John Hopkins Univ. Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HKF4QI

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Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York
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Binding: Hardcover
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