Finance
Tax (Prep) Day
Tue, Mar 3, 2017
by Drew McManus
After spending the last few days compiling all of my records to send off to the accountant, it seems fitting to focus today’s post on some finance related resources. All of these links point to finance-focused posts written by Joe Patti and available at ArtsHacker.com: Understanding Non-Profit Financial Statements How Financial Statements Are Born Deeper
Wage Rules And Salary History
Wed, Aug 8, 2016
by Drew McManus
Vu Le is one of the most consistent culture bloggers around today but it is particularly enjoyable when he takes on some of the most sacred of cows inside nonprofit management. His post from 8/15/2016 about the myriad of problems related to requiring job applicants to list salary history is exactly the sort of thing
The Latest Baby Step Toward Open Source 990 Data
Fri, Jul 7, 2016
by Drew McManus
Back in June, 2015 we examined a Federal court case that ultimately produced a ruling which got the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on board the open source data train. One year later and those efforts are beginning to yield some results. GuideStar.org published a blog post on 6/16/2016 with details about where the IRS is
Tax Day
Mon, Mar 3, 2016
by Drew McManus
I spent the weekend preparing taxes so no new post today, however, it seems fitting to point over to a finance related resource. To that end, Samantha Teter authored a wonderfully useful post on 2/29/2016 at ArtsHacker titled Financial Resources For New Executives that’s absolutely worth your time. It’s filled with plenty of useful resources
Unraveling The Mystery Of Paid Vacation Weeks
Mon, Feb 2, 2016
by Drew McManus
A few weeks ago during one of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra negotiation articles, I indicated that we would take some time to examine a topic we’ve never studied before: vacation time. Although vacation time seems like a fairly straightforward item to those outside the field, there’s actually quite a bit more going on under
