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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

sgEngage

Investing in a fund accounting software simplifies processes and reporting, making it easy to avoid potential pitfalls. Neglecting Month-to-Month Financial Comparisons Month-to-month comparisons are crucial for detecting trends, anomalies, and areas of concern in your financial activities.

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Seven Ways to Improve Engagement With Your Nonprofit Financial Reports

BoardAssist

Use multidimensional accounting software to gain efficiency. Dimensions also enable your accounting software to run faster by streamlining the chart of accounts. Analyze the numbers for them and summarize trends with a brief narrative or visual, dashboard-style presentation. Provide a basis for comparison.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In comparison, 10 years ago, these managers spent “only” 60 to 65 per cent of their time engaged in those activities. . You probably use cloud software to backup your files and share them with others on your team. Take a trend-line view. Is the ratio of team/solo time adequate? Is your team emailing after hours?

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When standard metrics are discussed, people easily fall into the "mine is bigger or better than yours" comparisons or "numbers data out of context thinking." Raw numbers aren't as important as trends) Unique Visitors. What is your post to comment ratio? What is the trend? The Web is changing!

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A Fundraiser’s Secret Weapon: Data Analytics

Connection Cafe

The focus shifted to a new set of key performance indicators (KPIs), including: File size and donor file coverage ratios. Benchmarking has provided an apples-to-apples comparison of data and helped clearly identify areas of growth and opportunity as well as highlight how past decisions had affected the current program. Is it good?