The budget-building book for nonprofits : a step-by-step guide for managers and boards / Murray Dropkin, Jim Halpin, Bill La Touche.

pt. 1. Understanding budgeting basics -- 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 -- pt. 2. Step-by-step budgeting guidelines -- 7. Start with a 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 (ZBB) -- 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 -- pt. 3. Practical budgeting resources -- A. Master worksheet for creating a program or unit workplan -- B. Worksheets with sample budget formats -- C. Examples of financial reports for analyzing and monitoring income and expenses -- D. Tools for analyzing financial reports and planning corrective action -- E. Example of a detailed organization-wide expense budget -- F. Additional useful checklists and examples -- G. Tools on the accompanying CD.

This best-selling nuts-and-bolts workbook, now in its second edition, has become a must-have resource for nonprofit managers and boards who are required to 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 second edition of The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits provides everything budgeters and nonfinancial managers need to prepare, approve, and implement their own budgets. The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits addresses the importance of budgets and budgeting, discusses basic types of nonprofit budgets, and outlines budget implementation, tracking, and reporting. In addition to updating the broad range of material, this second edition contains new information on such timely topics as zero-based budgeting and capital budgeting.

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Set includes: 1 book, 1 CD-ROM.