Whitepapers

Searching for the right government accounting system starts here. We review government accounting requirements, agency specific needs and objectives, and key features and functionality. Plus, with sections on integrations, security, compliance, and cost, this white paper has it all.

Taking time now to prepare for your nonprofit’s year-end financial close will help you approach the holidays with less stress and a big task completed on your to-do list. Gift yourself and your team a stress-free holiday season. Get all the details in our Year-End Preparation for Nonprofit Organizations White Paper.

In this white paper, The Art of Nonprofit Storytelling, we explore factual nonprofit storytelling – transforming numbers into powerful, compelling stories. Numbers alone tell stories, but their impact is more obvious when stories are told using both visual cues, such as charts and graphs, as well as narrative to add substance, texture, color, and context to the facts.

Onsite and online/cloud nonprofit accounting solutions are both valid options. It just depends on what's right for your organization. AccuFund's Online vs. Onsite White Paper identifies 6 Key Factors for assessing the nonprofit accounting deployment option that ultimately best serves your organization’s needs.

AccuFund’s new FASB E-Book fills in the gaps around FASB ASU 2016-14 reporting requirements. Highlights include: timing and examples of reporting changes, side-by-side analysis of changes, and checklists/step-by-step updates to key reports.

This new EBook outlines the importance of trust in all phases of nonprofit management, program management, and outcomes management while also detailing areas that might make an organization vulnerable. It also provides helpful tips to guide nonprofits through assessing their current level of trust and highlights areas that help strengthen the trust factor.

Is Your Organization Ready for FASB ASU 2016-14? New FASB ASU 2016-14 reporting requirements is the first major set of changes to nonprofit financial statement presentation standards since 1993. This white paper breaks down the changes, shows examples of the new financial statement presentations and helps nonprofits understand, prepare and implement the new FASB 2016-14 reporting requirements.

Identifying the processes, tasks, and decisions associated with preparing to implement the new FASB ASU 2016-14 reporting requirements is what AccuFund focuses on in Part 2 of their 3-part White Paper Series to help all nonprofits better understand, prepare and implement the new accounting standards.

Part 3 of our popular FASB White Paper Series is an active project plan that includes checklists, questions for discussion, and step-by-step updates to help you and your organization focus on the task-oriented items detailed in all 3 phases; understanding, preparing and implementing.

How often do you assess the systems that drive your organization? Does management have the analytics and insights they need to make decisions? Sound, accurate financial reporting helps everyone involved understand the financial state of your organization. For thought-provoking questions and topics for assessing your organizations’ needs, download this new, executive paper, 5 Key Factors to Consider When Investing in a New Nonprofit Accounting System.

Nonprofit Reporting is your organization’s best insight into your financial position, grant management, and program effectiveness.  With better insight comes better decision making and better tactical execution. Timely, accurate, understandable reporting is essential for an organization to secure grant awards, attract more donations, and at the very least, make the most effective use of the funds you do have.

Functional Expense Reporting provides donors, funders and the general public, with meaningful information about the types of programs and activities carried out by an organization.  This white paper provides a behind-the-scenes look at Functional Expense Reporting - what it takes to do it well and how it helps position your organization for ongoing success.

AccuFund Sponsors The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s New IRS Form 990 Reporting Guide, Mining the 990 – A Guide to Gleaning Key Data from Charities’ Tax Form. The Guide offers insightful solutions relating to and referencing all areas of IRS Form 990.The increasing demand for transparency and understanding around nonprofit reporting fueled the need for this reporting guide.

Learn ways your organization can save time, money and resources with effective use of your organization’s technology. This white paper identifies systems, procedures and technology your organization can benefit from to minimize the time and resources used every day to copy, distribute, find and process the information that comes into, passes within, and exits your organization.

What challenges do you face at your local government? This special report identifies trends in the government sector and highlights tips for streamlining operations with real world success stories from Fire Departments, Councils of Government, Local Municipalities, Cities & Towns and Special Districts.

This white paper identifies systems, procedures and technology your government can benefit from to minimize the time and resources used every day to copy, distribute, find and process the information that comes into, passes within, and exits your entity.

Representative Payee Fundamentals. The responsibilities, best practices and technology needed to deliver Representative Payee Success. Technology enables automation and best practices help ensure systems and procedures are as seamless as possible. We’ve put this all together for you in this white paper.

AccuFund partnered with Chronicle of Philanthropy to bring about this special report, highlighting endowment success stories; returns, diversification and what’s required for keeping and attracting endowment donors.

Based on the 2015-2016 Endowment Accounting Insights & Analysis Survey*, which sought information central to endowment accounting management, this tip sheet offers 5 areas of consideration when managing current endowments or considering the pursuit of new endowments.

Is your database underperforming? This Executive Paper takes you through thought-provoking questions and tutorials for each of the 4 steps in a healthy CRM intervention to help you and your team identify what’s important to your organization, prioritize your needs and set you on a path for optimal donor engagement.

Online vs. Onsite, A Government’s Guide to Selecting Accounting Software takes an objective look; identifying 6 Key Factors and Questions to Consider that can help you make the right decision.