Do you need the Rosetta Stone to translate your fundraising numbers into accounting? If you’re ready to spend more time improving your fundraising numbers and less time arguing over whose numbers to use, don’t miss this session! Accounting and Development have different objectives based on what they are trying to get out of the system. We have more than 15 years of experience helping nonprofits establish practical processes to serve the goals of both the fundraising and accounting departments. Attend this session so you can: Have a roadmap for collaboration that will help avoid stalemates in the first place; learn strategies for improving communication and understanding between accounting and fundraising so each department’s objectives are addressed; and leave the presentation armed with documentation that outlines how to streamline gift entry and reconciliation processes to support the goals of both departments, as well as create shared Fund & GL coding structures. Plus, we’ll highlight considerations if you’re thinking of automating the process.

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5. Encouraging open (and cordial!) communication

6. Implementing Practical Tools

7. Common Coding

8. Clear Processing Standards

9. Sharing Data

11. Reporting that allows management staff to measure and evaluate the efficacy of:

12. Specific fundraising efforts

13. Overarching fundraising strategies

14. Assess progress towards fundraising goals

15. Forecast donation cash flow

17. Supporting all donor relationships by:

18. Providing donors with accurate information about their giving history

20. Comply with reporting requirements

21. Interpret organization’s financial affairs and health to the Board

22. Monitoring budgetary needs and the financial resources to meet those needs

23. Forecasting cash flow to ensure solvency

24. Reconciling financial systems with bank statements

26. Who tracks the progress towards these goals?

28. When and how are new fund codes created?

30. Clear Processing Standards

31. Sharing Data

34. Compare the GL revenue codes to the Development Fund codes

35. Identify similarities and differences

36. Where there are differences, discuss

37. Remember- Finance has many reportingneeds!

39. Ensuring Data Integrity

41. Restrict access to adding, editing or deleting gifts

42. Lock gifts down after monthly reconciliation so they cannot easily be edited

43. Use adjustments(don’t just open the gift and change it)

45. At a certain point it becomes too labor-intensive for Finance to re-key all transactions in detail.

46. Organizations track different levels of detail for different reasons.

47. Perhaps all pledges are posted in detail, or all gifts of $1000+.

49. Establish a time and place when you will meet each month, freed from other obligations and distractions.

51. Questions & Answers

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