Nonprofit
Year in review: The Top 10 Insights from 2018
2018 was a big year for finance professionals, with monumental changes in tax code & accounting rules, and other significant challenges & opportunities affecting commercial businesses, nonprofits, and individuals & their families. Below are AAFCPAs’ most widely-read news alerts & insights in the past year: AAFCPAs takes great pride in the role we play serving […]
What Nonprofits Need to Know about the TCJA: AAFCPAs to Present a Members-Only Webinar for the Providers’ Council
AAFCPAs Tax Consulting Strategists Joshua England, JD, LLM, and Chris Consoletti, JD will present a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act educational workshop on December 10th at 12pm, for the benefit of the Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers, Inc. (The Providers’ Council). The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) represents a dramatic overhaul of the U.S. […]
AAFCPAs Managed Accounting Solutions Practice Recommends Three Strategic Budgets for Nonprofits
It can be tempting for finance teams and executive leadership of nonprofits to focus mostly on near-term strategy. However, in order to ensure sustainability, AAFCPAs advises nonprofits to broaden the scope of their financial planning process to address the challenges of the current economic and funding landscape, and to ensure sustainability in the long-term. We […]
AAFCPAs Cultivates Lush Giving Tree Again for #GivingTuesday
We are happy to announce that AAFCPAs will again participate in #GivingTuesday, November 27th, 2018, a global day dedicated to giving!Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, #GivingTuesday provides a shift in focus from the widely promoted shopping events of Black Friday and Cyber Monday to the charitable giving season that comes with the holidays, AND […]
AAFCPAs & MENTOR’s Partnership in Charting a Sustainable Future
How Did One Nonprofit Explore Creative Approaches to a Sustainable Model? For nonprofits, charting the future is complex. The search for creative, strategic approaches to sustainability is continuous, and many organizations have struggled to achieve long term, mission-aligned profitability. In its work with MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, AAFCPAs evaluated the organization’s financial and operational […]
AAFCPAs Outlines State Applicability, IRS Guidance Related to TCJA that Nonprofits Need to Know
AAFCPAs would like to make Tax Exempt Organizations aware of state by state applicability and recent IRS guidance on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, known officially as H.R. 1, (the “TCJA”) and how it pertains to charitable nonprofits. AAFCPAs has outlined the following applicability and guidance that are especially noteworthy: State by state applicability […]
AAFCPAs’ Brittany Besler, CPA, JD, MBA to Present Legal Seminar on Nonprofit Compliance Requirements
AAFCPAs Tax Strategist Brittany Besler, CPA, JD, MBA will volunteer her expertise and lead Lawyers Clearinghouse’s Legal Workshop for Nonprofits: How to Maintain Nonprofit, Tax-Exempt, and Public Charity Status on October 2nd in Boston, MA. This two-hour educational workshop offers an overview of compliance requirements with various government agencies and practical tips for nascent nonprofits, including […]
Educational Podcast: CFO Survey Report: Behind Every Thriving Organization is a High-Functioning CFO
Listen to PodcastClick here to listen to podcast or use the above media player.AAFCPAs, in collaboration with The Boston Chapter of Financial Executives International (FEI-Boston), conducted a survey of over 250 Chief Financial Officers in an effort to capture what issues are currently ‘top of mind’ for senior financial executives in the Northeast region of […]
Educational Podcast: How to Right-Size Your Finance Function
Listen to PodcastClick here to listen to podcast or use the above media player. Over one third of CFOs surveyed report human resource limitations and team bandwidth as the PRIMARY challenge in meeting the expectations of their CEO. Nonprofit finance departments are often juggling the day-to-day accounting and bookkeeping responsibilities alongside more complex and time […]