“There are things that can be measured. There are things that are worth measuring. But what can be measured is not always what is worth measuring; what gets measured may have no relationship to what we really want to know.” This statement, and the subsequent arguments presented by Jerry Muller …
Accounting is Dead! Long Live Accounting!
Sunday, November 6, 2016Accounting has been around for thousands of years, albeit in differing guises. As the society around it has changed, so has accounting. We no longer record information on clay tablets via hieroglyphics, and have even recognised that calculators are more useful than an abacus. But that doesn’t mean accounting should …
Fraud in Your Organisation
Sunday, October 11, 2015Late in 2014 BDO released their 2014 Fraud in Not-for-profits survey (read it here), which yielded some very interesting results. While one would like to imagine that the moltruistic nature of NFP’s means they are immune from fraud, this would be misguided, and in fact the evidence shows otherwise. Unfortunately …
How to Open The Donor’s Chequebook
Monday, April 13, 2015Not all donors are motivated to give by the same strategies – no surprises there. What is surprising is how many charities do not bother to vary their donor appeals to accommodate these different motivations. Researchers at the Kellogg Institute have compiled a summary of their various investigations of donor …
Need to Cut Costs? Try This…
Sunday, September 14, 2014Improving the bottom line of a business is actually very simple as it means impacting just one of two areas: Increasing revenues, or Decreasing costs. I said it was simple, not easy! But when times are tough (and when aren’t they?) and you need to reduce your cost of doing …