Book description
This best-selling nuts-and-bolts workbook, now in its second edition,
has become the gold standard for nonprofit managers and boards who must
work through the budget cycle. The book offers practical tools and
guidance for completing each step of the budgeting process. Designed to
be comprehensive and easy to use,
The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits
provides everything budgeters and nonfinancial managers need to
prepare, approve, and implement their own budgets.
Includes new
chapters on Zero-Based and Capital Budgeting as well as a CD with
spreadsheets, worksheets and a new budget-building software, the
CMS Nonprofit Budget Builder, designed to help you
implement the concepts in the book. The software includes an
expandable standard chart of accounts (COA) and will aid in building,
organizing, tracking and planning budgets.
Murray Dropkin is president of CMS Systems, Inc., a consulting firm
that specializes in improving the financial operations of nonprofit
and for-profit organizations. He is the coauthor of Bookkeeping for
Nonprofits and The Cash Flow Management Book for Nonprofits.
Jim Halpin has written articles for technical publications and has
developed accounting software and other applications for clients in a
wide variety of industries. He is the coauthor of Bookkeeping for
Nonprofits and the coauthor, with Dropkin, of the newsletter Nonprofit Report.
Bill La Touche used his writing, planning, training and organizing
skills to help a wide range of individuals, groups, and organizations
get what they want from complex business, governmental, and nonprofit
entities.
