1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830787303321

Autore

McLaughlin Thomas A

Titolo

Streetsmart financial basics for nonprofit managers [[electronic resource] /] / Thomas A. McLaughlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2009

ISBN

1-282-55123-X

9786612551239

1-118-38670-1

0-470-48077-7

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Disciplina

658.15

Soggetti

Nonprofit organizations - Finance

Nonprofit organizations - Accounting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers, Third Edition; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note to Reader; Part One: Analysis; Chapter 1: Organizational Structure: Programs and Corporations; Chapter 2: Mission: Managing Your Two Bottom Lines; Chapter 3: Accounting as a Second Language-A Nine-Point Program; Chapter 4: Assets Are for Boards, Activities Are for Managers; Chapter 5: Balance Sheets: How They Get That Way; Chapter 6: Financial Analysis: A Few Diagnostic Tools; Part Two: Accounting; Chapter 7: Nonprofit Accounting: Acknowledging the Strings Attached

Chapter 8: Cost Accounting: How Much Does It Cost?Chapter 9: Auditing: Choosing and Using an Auditor; Part Three: Operations; Chapter 10: Cash Flow Management: Why Cash Is King; Chapter 11: Capital: Why Capital Is Not a Four-Letter Word; Chapter 12: Budgeting: Taming the Budget Beast; Chapter 13: Indirect Costs and Other Despised Items; Chapter 14: Pricing: How Much Should It Cost?; Chapter 15: Profit: Why and How Much?; Chapter 16: To Raise More Money, Think Cows; Part Four: Control; Chapter 17: Insurance: The Maddeningly Complicated Art of Covering Your Assets

Chapter 18: Internal Controls for External GoalsChapter 19: Enron



Spawn; Chapter 20: Management Controls: Toward Accountability for Performance; Appendix A: A Financial Management Cultural Primer; Appendix B: Budget Bloopers; Appendix C: Using the Web Site; Part One: Analysis; Part Three: Operations; Part Four: Control; System Requirements; Using the Files; User Assistance; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Praise for Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers, Third Edition ""Tom McLaughlin is a proven master at making the daunting concepts of nonprofit financial management clear and engaging. This book is a superb introduction for new nonprofit executives, board members, and students. It is also an excellent refresher and reference for those of us who have been around the nonprofit sector for a while. It is well written, concise, and thought provoking.""-J. Gregory Dees, Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Management at Duke Uni

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972040903321

Autore

Lambe Patrick <1960->

Titolo

The blind tour guide / / Patrick Lambe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : Times Books International, 2002

ISBN

9789812619150

9812619151

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Disciplina

380

658

Soggetti

Information technology - Economic aspects

Knowledge management

Technological innovations - Management

Industrial management

Success in business

Information society

Risk management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.



Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Becoming a New Economy Manager; 2 How are the Mighty Fallen; 3 Sick Companies; 4 Leadership in the New  Economy; 5 The Panopticon; 6 Branching Out: Dilemmas in Education; 7 Sisyphus; 8 The Geeks Have It; 9 The Real Threat to Asian Companies; 10 In Praise of Older Workers; 11 Time and Motion; 12 Gutenberg's Periscope; 13 Buying into Risk; 14 The New Landscape of Risk; 15 Fast Technology, Slow People; 16 Slow People, Slower World; 17 Lower Friction, Higher Risk; 18 Who Pays for Risk in the Connected Economy?; 19 Buying Time: Coffee and the New Economy

20 Spending Time: An Anatomy of Outrage 21 Innovating - Inside the Box; 22 Innovation:Out of the (Juke) Box; 23 In Praise of Laggards; 24 Friction is Dead: Long Live  Friction; 25 Tale of Dog and Duck; 26 The Old New Economy; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Patrick Lambe explores the impact of technological change on business and working life, providing a frontline view of the day-to-day changes that accompany one of the most incredible transformations of society in the world today -- the much debated new economy. Though the book's context and perspective is Singaporean, the issues discussed are global ones. The thoughtful analysis and engaging style of its British writer range widely over new economy issues from the forests of Sweden (becoming rapidly depleted of women), to the cyber cafes of Kazakhstan (where teenagers eye Australian immigration