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Accounting Outsourcing and Staff Augmentation Services
Good Information is So Much More than Good Reports.
You need clean and compliant reports on all your nonprofit’s financials.
But you also need to understand the story your reports tell, make decisions with them, and ensure that data flows well across teams.
That’s why we offer a portfolio of accounting and data management services:
Accounting Services
Establish first-class professional financial management and reporting at your nonprofit.
Custom Reporting and Analysis Services
Answer the questions your board or stakeholders ask, and investigate any areas of concern or focus.
Financial Data Advisory Services
Build the internal controls and data workflows you need to support stewardship reports, and efficiency across your organization.
Accounting Services
You need tight, transparent, and on-time financial reports, for compliance and for all your decision-making.
Here’s how we deliver them to you.
That’s why we offer a portfolio of accounting and data management services:
Transaction and Reconciliation Management
Record all financial transactions and payments and reconcile them against bank statements.
Financial Reporting and Analysis
Create, customize, produce, and interpret all your regular reports, including your Statements of Financial Position (Balance Sheet), Activities (P/L), Functional Expenses, and Cash Flows.
Budget Preparation and Analysis
Develop an annual budget to guide your yearly planning and inform all your decisions about opportunities that arise. Produce budget reports and variance analysis to compare your budget to actuals.
Fund Reporting
Create customized reports on grants and donations that accommodate all the fund allocations you need. Track the usage of these funds and their compliance with donor requirements and restrictions.
Auditing Services
Prepare for external audits by compiling and organizing complete, accurate records. Conduct internal audits to assess your internal controls, risk management, and compliance.
Custom Reporting and Analysis Services
What do you want to know about your rescue mission?
With our custom reporting and analysis services, you’ll always have your finger on the pulse of your organization.
Here are examples of the kinds of answers we help you deliver to whomever is asking. On demand.
Key Performance Indicator
What You’ll Report
Metrics and Analysis You’ll Have for Support
Performance Against Budget
The programs, projects, and departments that are over and under budget, by how much and for how long.
- Budgets vs. actuals
- Revenue variances
- Expenditure variances
Program Success
Which programs yield high returns relative to their costs, and which need reevaluation or restructuring.
- Cost efficiency analysis, including cost per beneficiary and cost per outcome
- Budget utilization analysis
- Benchmarking analysis in your industry
- Program ROI analysis
- Program sustainability analysis (program expenses as a percentage of total revenue)
Fundraising Success
Which campaigns, techniques, and donors help you meet your targets, and where you should focus your efforts.
- Total funds raised
- Cost per dollar raised
- Donor growth and retention rates
- Average gift size and gift ranges
- Conversion rate (percentage of solicitations that result in a donation)
- Pledge fulfillment rate
- Donor lifetime value
- All metrics in total and by campaign
Financial Risks
Your nonprofit’s overall sustainability, including its ongoing ability to operate, meet obligations, and implement its mission without cuts.
- Liquidity ratios including current and quick ratios
- Break even analysis
- Cash flow forecasting
- Operating reserve totals and ratio
- Debt and debt service coverage ratio
- Revenue concentration among top donors
- Funding volatility (year-over-year variability in funding sources)
Operating Efficiency
How well your organization uses its resources in enacting your mission, serving your constituents, and meeting your goals.
- Administrative, program, and fundraising expenses as percentages of total expenses
- Cost per outcome and beneficiary
- Return on assets
- Capacity utilization
- Cash conversion cycle (duration from expenditure to funds received)
Financial Strategies for Growth
How to guide your rescue mission in expanding its reach, building its resilience, and ensuring its longevity.
- All your program, fundraising, and financial health analyses described above
- Revenue diversification and dependencies over time
Financial Data Advisory Services
Sharp reports, targeted strategies, and successful decisions are possible only with a strong financial foundation.
Here’s how we build that for you.
Internal Control Design
Establish and strengthen the practices that help your nonprofit prevent challenges before they happen, and overcome them if they do.
We build controls that ensure the integrity of your financial information, assign accountability across your organization, safeguard your assets, promote compliance, and prevent fraud.
Internal Controls We Build:
Transaction Controls
Request, approval, and documentation procedures for all financial transactions, particularly expenditures above a certain amount.
Access Controls
Procedures for allowing only authorized team members to view or use certain assets. This includes physical and digital spaces, systems, and data.
Reconciliation Controls
Procedures for regularly reconciling bank and credit statements against the general ledger and resolving any discrepancies.
Audit Controls
Procedures and systems for keeping records of transactions from initiation to completion, and enabling independent verification of them.
Financial Workflow Design
Create transparent, collaborative, and user-friendly processes for all your financial tasks, from data entry to reporting.
We build nonprofit financial workflows that deliver high-quality data to your systems and enable you to produce high-quality reports. On time and without hours upon days of effort.
Financial Workflows We Build:
Donation and Grant Processing
Design how you record, acknowledge, and report donations and grants, including all their requirements.
Expense Management
Streamline the request, approval, recording, and payment of expenses and ensure their alignment with your mission and budget.
Payroll Processing
Automate and manage timesheets, approval, payroll calculations, deductions, and disbursement in compliance with all tax and employment laws.
Vendor Payment and Contract Management
Build the processes for verifying goods and services received; approving and processing purchase orders and invoices; and renewing subscriptions and partnerships.
Budget Management
Establish how you’ll monitor, control, and review your budget; and design the process for making and approving any adjustments to it.
Financial Reporting
Develop your reporting ecosystem: decide what reports all your stakeholders need, their cadence, and the process for approving and presenting them.
Related Services
Financial Health Assessments
A healthy future for your nonprofit starts with a full understanding of where it is today. Most of our engagements start here.
Financial Systems Consulting
Modernize the systems that contain all your data and produce all your reports.
Interim Controller and CFO Services
Partner with us to lead your financial systems modernization project, from planning to deployment and support.
Let Your Accounting Empower You for a Change.
It’s not supposed to be painful. It’s not even supposed to be boring. Make your accounting show you the adventure your nonprofit is on.