Practical Financial Management for NGOs

The aim of this CD-ROM is make financial management accessible and useful. It will be of particular interest to non-finance staff: project officers, programme managers, senior managers and board members. The objective of the CD-ROM is to take you through the basic principles and techniques of organisational finance. Financial management is a vital part of managing operations; but we do not have to be financial experts or qualified accountants to understand and use financial management tools. Financial management is based on common sense ideas; indeed, it can even be enjoyable and rewarding.When you have completed this CD-ROM, you will be able to: keep accounts; design budgets; monitor budgets; put in place internal control mechanisms; manage cash flow; work more effectively and efficiently with donors and finance staff; use financial management to create strategies; and, integrate gender into financial planning. However, you will not be expected to acquire any level of proficiency in these techniques; that will be the duty of your organisation's financial manager.