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'Budget Building Book for Nonprofits' Provides Everything Budgeters and Nonfinancial Managers Need to Prepare Approve and Implement Their Own Budgets

Tuesday November 20 11:02 PM

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c74892) has announced the addition of "The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide for Managers and Boards, 2nd Edition" to their offering.

This 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 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.

This new edition of Dropkin's bestselling Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits provides the necessary foundation for nonprofit organizations seeking to build effective budgets. Based on the decades of experience that Dropkin and Halpin bring to the table, this book addresses the importance of budgets and budgeting, basic types of nonprofit budgets, and budget implementation, tracking, and reporting.

In addition to overall updating, new chapters are included that cover:

- Zero-based budgeting

- Capital budgeting

- Electronic spreadsheets/tools for budget development and monitoring

- CD with tools and worksheets to make budget-building even easier!

Contents:

Preface.

Acknowledgments to the First Edition.

Acknowledgments to the Second Edition.

The Authors.

Introduction: How to Use This Book.

1. Why Budgets and Budgeting Are Important to Nonprofits.

2. Understanding Basic Types of Nonprofit Budgets: Overview.

3. Key Board and Staff Roles and Responsibilities in Nonprofit Budgeting.

4. Establishing Budget Guidelines, Priorities, and Goals.

5. How Different Sources and Types of Income Can Affect Budgeting.

6. Strategies for Developing Organization-Wide Operating Budgets.

7. Start with the Budget-Building Checklist.

8. Designing Your Budgeting Policies and Procedures.

9. Creating Your Budgeting Calendar.

10. Orienting Program and Department Managers and Staff to Budgeting.

11. Contents of the Annual Budget Preparation Package.

12. Developing Organization-Wide Operating Budgets.

13. Developing Operating Budgets for Individual Programs, Units, or Activities.

14. Major Components of Operating Budgets.

15. Estimating Income and Expenses.

16. Allocating Administrative, Overhead, and Shared Costs.

17. Revising Draft Operating Budgets.

18. Zero-Based Budgeting.

19. Capital Budgeting.

20. Presenting Your Annual Budget Proposal to the Board.

21. Board Review, Revision, and Approval of the Final Budget.

22. Cash Flow Reporting, Forecasting, and Management.

23. Monitoring and Modifying Approved Budgets.

24. Conclusion.

Index.

How to Use the CD-ROM.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c74892

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Research and Markets
Laura Wood, Senior Manager
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