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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

sgEngage

Neglecting Month-to-Month Financial Comparisons Month-to-month comparisons are crucial for detecting trends, anomalies, and areas of concern in your financial activities. It automates and facilitates these comparisons, allowing for more efficient monitoring and decision-making.

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7th Annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Report: A Closer Look (Staffing Levels)

NTEN

Here is a Year-Over-Year comparison of our survey responses to technology staffing questions for the last three years: The key things we notice here are: The significant diffence between tech staffing levels reported in 2010 as compared to 2011 and 2012. This gives us (and you) a more comparable metric.

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Seven Ways to Improve Engagement With Your Nonprofit Financial Reports

BoardAssist

Provide a basis for comparison. In financial reporting, context is provided by comparison to the prior year performance, to budget, or to both. Additional nuance can be added by expanding the comparison across multiple years or multiple budget versions. That sounds great, right?

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Ask A Nonprofit Specialist - Engaging the Board in Financial Reports

ASU Lodestar Center

expectations); Compare actual activity to expectations (comparison of budget/prior year to actual); Present a picture of the financial health of the organization. Focus Attention on Critical Factors by Using Ratios, Dashboards and Other Strategies. If not on course, the reports lend guidance to changing plans as necessary.

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11 Outstanding Nonprofit Reports You Should Read

Care2

technology staff and the average ratio of tech staff to organizational staff is 1 tech staff to about 60 organizational staff. The guide includes a comparison of 29 different systems and offers detailed reviews of 10 of the most popular. Organizations have an average 3.5

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Twitter Is 2nd After Google in Referrals To My Blog, But They Stay Longer.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I did a comparison of time on-site with top referrals and Twitter referrals stay longer than Google. It lead me to this post by Louis Gray called " What's Your Twitter Noise Ratio ?" " He goes on to describe how the noise ratio is constructed. My ratio is 2.4, so I'm in the low end of conversationalist.

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The production system maps aid an organization to understand how work actually gets done, in comparison to formal org charts. These are points that, when focused upon, have a large ratio of amount-of-effort to desired-change.

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