Non-Profit Organization Director's Guide to Financial Responsibility (Perfect Bound Book) 8.5 X 11, 78 pages

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This easy-to-read book is written by a Chartered Accountant (CA) with a sense of humour and a wealth of experience in dealing with governance issues.

Board of Directors for Non-Profit Organizations Are you on the Board of Directors for a Non Profit Organization? Buy this book to find out more about how a non-profit Board of Directors functions. You're probably interested in gaining knowledge in the hopes that this will enhance your contribution to the organization you're involved with. This is very noble. Perhaps you're also a little bit interested in how to avoid being held liable -- especially financially -- for any mistakes you make during your time on the Board. That's totally understandable. And guess what? You're in luck. This book will help you on both counts. It's intended as a common sense approach to a topic that may appear more complex than it actually is.

The goal of this book is to inform you of your duties, responsibilities, and rights. You will learn how to be both an excellent and safe board member, one who is not at risk because of lack of information. In other words, the content of this book will help keep you out of trouble!

Framework of Board of Directors Obligations This book uses a framework to divide up the duties, tasks, responsibilities, and rights of board members. There are many different methods of talking about the same things. This framework should prove helpful to individual boards as a template for them to use and customize to fit their needs.

The book is organized around this framework with each of the columns forming a separate chapter. There is a certain amount of overlap between the terms duties, tasks and responsibilities but all of this is important no matter what you call it!

Governance Everyone talks about it but does anyone know what it means? Find out what all those buzzwords really mean. You will understand what governance, accountability, transparency and stakeholder, among others, really mean to you.

Financial Management Much of the risk of being a board member has to do with finances. Find out how you will know if your NPO is able to pay its bills? How do you know whether your NPO is spending money in accordance with the budget? Both of these questions and a bunch of other ones are answered by looking at financial reports. As a member of a board of directors you will be handed financial information at many meetings -- there is no avoiding it! This book will show you how to read financial statements.

Privacy Learn about the federal privacy legislation. You will understand what best practices are required to ensure board members stay out of trouble with privacy rules.