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Public Trust in the Public Face of Charities - This essay suggests that questionable quality of reporting by charities on Form 990 (the only public disclosure required of charities by government) constitutes a crisis of trust between charities and the people who rely on their financial reports when making giving decisions. |
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Nonprofit Disclosure: The Answer to Accountability? provides a transcript of an Urban Institute panel discussion on this topic. |
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Surviving Form 990 by Kimberly Stanoff. |
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Improving Disclosure and Transparency in Nonprofit Accounting by Gerald Aranoff uses a hypothetical case analysis to illustrate necessary improvements to nonprofits' financial disclosures. |
| Independent Sector's efforts on filing 990s electronically for greater fiscal transparency, timeliness and accuracy. |
| Blackbaud provides many articles about nonprofit fiscal transparency. For example, see the article on Fostering Fiscal Transparency which offers a number of specific tips for improving transparency. |
| Many nonprofits traditionally have prepared Balance Statements and Income/Expense Statements. Two of the best tools to add to this are Cash Flow Statements and an Evaluation of Return on Assets. This for profit sector resource may be adapted by nonprofits. |
| Many donors consider nonprofit fundraising and administrative cost reporting to be an important nonprofit accountability issue. |
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