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Overview
Guided by experts in nonprofit finance and accounting, you’ll develop analytical skills for understanding your financial position more fully, work hands-on with audited financial statements and learn how to ask the right questions and identify threats to the financial sustainability of your nonprofit organization.
Key facts
You’ll leave with enhanced financial acumen and better equipped to manage your organization’s financial resources successfully.
During the Nonprofit Finance - Toolkit for Leaders course at Northwestern University, you will:
- Develop the analytical ability to look at the revenue and expense sides of the nonprofit organization
- Look for threats to the financial sustainability of your nonprofit organization and responses to those threats
- Learn to think about current assets and ways to leverage those assets for the future
Programme Structure
Nonprofit Finance
- Explore current issues in nonprofit finance including challenges such as the general economy, funding cuts from federal, state and local sources, and greater competition in the philanthropic marketplace
- Identify solutions to the challenges such as effective use of budgeting and financial tools, more comprehensive understanding of finance operations, and building capacity for more collaborative relationships
- Understand two key budgets used by nonprofit organizations: the operating budget and the cash budget
Understanding & Using Financial Statements
- Identify the three major financial statements and their interrelationships
- Get hands on experience with actual audited financial statements from two prominent nonprofit organizations and those of your own organization
- Develop skills at asking the right questions about financial statements
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 11 days
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
Delivered
Online
Campus Location
- Evanston, United States
Disciplines
Finance View 132 other Short Courses in Finance in United StatesWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
Who Should Attend:
- Senior nonprofit executives and active board members responsible for shaping their organization’s direction, mission and programs
- Nonprofit CEOs, executive directors and major program managers seeking new tools and approaches to improving their organization’s financial performance
- Mid-level nonprofit managers looking to take their careers to the next level by learning about the finance function of a nonprofit organization
Tuition Fees
Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents1400 USD / full≈ 1400 USD / full - Out-of-State1400 USD / full≈ 1400 USD / full
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Domestic
Applies to youIn-State1400 USD / full≈ 1400 USD / full
Funding
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