100% online - Financial Management for Nonprofit Organizations introduces the fundamentals of financial management for nonprofit organizations. The course examines the use of financial statements as a management tool, the elements of an accounting system and how they are used in a nonprofit organization, the basic methods of internal controls and preparation for an external audit, the budget cycle and filing tax statements.

This five-week course includes the following modules:

Nonprofit financial statements and analysis
Accounting system overview
Internal controls and the external audit
Budgeting and taxes
Special features of this course include: links to useful Web sites on nonprofit financial management and small group projects with nonprofit practitioners throughout the U.S. and other countries.

Class size is limited to 25 participants.

Learning Objectives

What you and your organization will gain from this course:

The ability to analyze financial statements for nonprofit organizations
Basic budgeting skills
The ability to recognize the need for internal controls and an external audit and implement a process to achieve both

Registration deadline:3/03/08
website:http://cnm.cuppa.uic.edu