This track is generously sponsored by Chazin.
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Basic Accounting: Build and strengthen your understanding of nonprofit financial management, accounting principles, financial reporting, and essential fiscal practices.
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Ready for What's Next: Scenario Planning for Nonprofit Leaders
After a period of change, nonprofits are shifting from short-term survival to readiness for what's next. In this session, we will explore pratical scenario planning and revenue diversification strategies that support financial sustainability. Through interactive discussions and examples, we will also identify key questions to ask during the scenario planning process.
Learning Objectives:
- Illustrate and define strategies for building scenario plans that can help your nonprofit continue to focus on its mission.
- Introduce revenue diversification solutions that support financial sustainability.
- Review best practices and questions to ask during the scenario planning process.
Rachel DeMatteo
Director, Your Part-Time Controller
Financial Storytelling - Engage Leadership and Prove Your Impact
Nonprofit leaders are increasingl expected to demonstrate not just fiscal responsibility, but mission impact. Yet financial reports often create barriers rather than bridges to understanding. This session addresses a critical gap: how to make financial data accessible, meaningful, and motivating to diverse stakeholders (leadership, board members, fundraising professionals, donors).
By mastering financial storytelling, nonprofit professionals can:
- Build stronger leadership teams armed with objective data allowing them o make better decisions
- Increase stakeholder confidence and trust
- Make more persuasive cases for strategic investments and change
- Improve organizational transparency and accountability
- Connect day-to-day operations to long-term mission impact
It's all about better decision-making through clearer financial communication.
Jackie McLaughlin, CPA
Technical Reviews & Training Manager, Chazin
Managing Grants with AI - Not Spreadsheets
Focuses on how AI gives program, development, and leadership teams a real-time picture of every grant (spent, remaining, pace to spend) while automating the finance-heavy work - allocation expenses, fixing misallocations, bulk-recording, funder-specific records, and payroll allocation optimization.
Srikar Chinam
CEO & Co-Founder, KarmaSuite
How to Enhance Your Financial Reports (Hands-On Workshop)
Do you find management and Board members asking the same questions over and over again about internal financial reports? Are there significant differences between internal reports and annual audited or reviewed financial statements?
Join this workshop to learn how to enhance financial reporting to your organization! We will provide examples of how to identify and incorporate key performance indicators (KPIs) into clear, readable reports using narratives, charts, and graphs. This information can easily be adapted to support and supplement information shared both internally and externally.
Sarah Hopkins, CPA
Partner, Lumsden McCormick
What Nonprofit Executives and Board Members Need to Know About Nonprofit Accounting Part 1
Accounting and financial reporting by nonprofit entities differs from that for for-profit entities. In this session, always a popular one at Camp Finance, you will learn all about these differences from a nationally known speaker. This two-part session provides an excellent overview for those new to the nonprofit sector, for nonprofit executives and board members who need “the basics” or for Campers who just want a refresher. Part 1 covers basic topics, including an introduction to accounting by not-for-profit entities, what makes a not-for-profit entity different from a for-profit entity and accounting for contributions (restrictions, measurement, pledges, donated services and other topics).
Allen L. Fetterman, CPA
What Nonprofit Executives and Board Members Need to Know About Nonprofit Accounting Part 2
A continuation of our earlier session covers more advanced topics, including accounting for investments, endowment funds, property and equipment, net assets, revenues, expenses, gains and losses, functional expense reporting and financial statements.
Allen L. Fetterman, CPA
