Outsourced Finance Function
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 […]
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 […]
Our Accountant is Retiring. Help!
How AAFCPAs leveled up a client’s processes and systems, while solving a staffing dilemma. AAFCPAs’ Fractional CFO & Outsourced Accounting leader Joyce Ripianzi, CPA was recently called by a nonprofit CEO looking for an immediate solution to manage finance responsibilities in response to a long-term employee who was retiring. The employee had been a valued […]
Systematic Success: Selecting the Right Accounting System to Support the Mission
How AAFCPAs helped the National Brain Tumor Society select the right accounting system to support the mission When AAFCPAs learned that one of its nonprofit audit clients sought to create efficiencies in producing meaningful and timely reports, the team recognized that the solution would require an objective look at processes and systems. AAFCPAs’ Business & […]
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 […]
Continuous Improvement of the Finance Function: Accept the Things You Cannot Change… But Change the Things You Can!
Listen to Podcasts: The most thriving nonprofits are those that have a continuous improvement culture. Continuous improvement ensures systems and processes scale with growth; systems integration and integrity is maintained or improved; highly-manual processes and lengthy/overburdened close cycles are eliminated; and meaningful data is available on-demand for decision-making. In this informative session, members of […]