Joyce Ripianzi
Best and Worst Practices in Nonprofit Finance
During AAFCPAs’ recent Nonprofit Educational Seminar (April 2023), leaders in our Managed Accounting & Advisory Solutions practice provided more than 400 attendees with a behind the scenes glimpse into some of the best and worst practices in nonprofit financial operations. The session included insight, thoughts, and recommendations from Joyce Ripianzi, CPA, Lauren M. Duplin, CPA, […]
Hindsight is 20/20: Observations into the Best and Worst Practices in Nonprofit Finance
In 2023, AAFCPAs celebrates 50 Years of Impact! Time and deep nonprofit experience have been wonderful teachers for us. With new clients, AAFCPAs’ Managed Accounting & Advisory Solutions practice is brought in to leverage this experience. We often start engagements by cleaning up books and modernizing processes and technologies. Some of our observations into the […]
Joyce Ripianzi Receives ECCF Professional Advisor Award
Essex Community Foundation (November 1, 2022) – Joyce Ripianzi is often the first person that nonprofit leaders turn to when they need immediate and sound advice. As a financial services professional with more than 30 years of diverse accounting experience, Ripianzi, a CPA and partner with Westborough-based AAFCPAs, is sought out by many local organizations […]
Year-end CFO/Controller Projects
As the year winds down, finance leaders are focused on tax compliance readiness, year-end strategies to optimize 2022 tax, and budgeting and forecasting for 2023. For many, this time of year means workload compression, as your resources remain constant. AAFCPAs Managed Accounting & Advisory practice is available to provide specialized resource enhancements, including access to […]
Building a Best-In-Class Finance Function
How do you know if your finance function is stuck in a rut? Do you manually produce the same reports, year after year—long after they have stopped being useful to management? Do you spend too much time making sure your numbers are right and not enough time figuring out what the numbers mean or what […]
May 16 is filing deadline for many tax-exempt organizations
AAFCPAs would like to remind nonprofit clients of an upcoming filing deadline of May 16, 2022. Those that operate on a calendar-year (CY) basis have certain annual information and tax returns they file with the IRS. These returns are: Form 990-series annual information returns (Forms 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF) Form 990-N, Electronic Notice (e-Postcard) for Tax-Exempt […]
Live Session: Building a Best-In-Class Finance Function, April 27
AAFCPAs’ Annual Nonprofit Educational Seminar is Virtual Again in 2022! AAFCPAs is offering a full day of educational content (9am – 3pm) designed to educate, challenge, and inspire nonprofit professionals! As a client and/or friend of AAFCPAs, your registration is complimentary. Reserve your seat.>> Featured Session: Building a Best-In-Class Finance Function (11:05am – 11:45am) How do […]
The Skills, Tools & Technology Needed Now to Be Future Ready
Accounting & finance departments and professionals at all levels are up for a tough challenge in the years ahead. The time to invest is now in order to be rewarded with greater opportunities, more impact, and more fulfilling work. Have you gone paperless? Are you utilizing the cloud? In this webcast, recorded April 2021 at […]
The Skills, Tools & Technology Needed Now to Be Future Ready
This year’s Annual Nonprofit Seminar is packed full of insight and inspiration to take nonprofits into the future, including discussions related to Pay for Success, Impact Reporting, and Leveraging Data Analytics & Predictive Modeling! Unfortunately, some nonprofits may be unable to equip for the future without addressing significant lags in the present. Time Is Of […]