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Not-for-profit

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These learning resources are designed to enhance the competency and development of not-for-profit professionals, including staff and stakeholders of not-for-profit entities and the firm practitioners who serve them.

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7 Benefits of Cybersecurity Penetration Testing

This blog post shares seven benefits of this type of vulnerability assessment.

Article Governance Foundational

What does it mean to be transparent?

Not-for-profit organizations should follow these 7 tips to build trust and tell their story to stakeholders.

Article Governance Intermediate

Find a mentor, land a new job

This article takes us on a journey through a mentoring relationship.

Article Coaching & mentoring Intermediate

Using surplus budgeting to advance and sustain your mission

Learn how a disciplined budgeting strategy can improve the financial health of your organization.

Article Planning, forecasting & budgeting Intermediate

Strategies for promoting diversity and inclusion

This article shares a few general guidelines to follow when trying to make your business more diverse and inclusive.

Article Team building Intermediate

How to sponsor diversity in the leadership ranks

This article discusses sponsorship programs as an effective approach to developing leadership.

Article Coaching & mentoring Advanced

5 Things You May Not Know About IRS Form 990

This blog post discusses five things you may not know or may have forgotten about Form 990,

Article Reporting & filing requirements Intermediate

Telling the not-for-profit story through Form 990

​Donors, lenders, and other stakeholders rely on the nonprofit's filing. This article discusses how to tout the organization's accomplishments using the form.

Article Management & disclosures Intermediate

Calculating a mentor's effect on salary and retention

This article discusses how a methodical approach to analysing personnel data could help organisations retain employees and save money.

Article Coaching & mentoring Advanced

Text Me Not: Hidden Perils of Modern Communication for CPAs

Responding to text messages from clients could have legal, privacy and security implications. This blog post suggests some guidelines to consider.

Article Communication Foundational

Top 3 Takeaways on FASB’s New Not-for-Profit Standard

Are you nervous about implementing the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new not-for-profit standard? This blog post discusses some important considerations.

Article FASB financial accounting & reporting Foundational

Exploring mentorship: A graceful exit

This articles explores how at one midsize Illinois firm, staff members who want to leave the firm receive mentoring assistance as they pursue their career’s next chapter.

Article Coaching & mentoring Advanced