Caroline Nduku Musyoka

Three questions your board is likely to ask heading into fall: Are we on budget? Are restricted funds tracked correctly? Can we show the financials today, not next week?

If any of those is a "maybe," that's worth fixing before hiring season and year-end reporting both land at once.

September is a reset month. Hiring picks back up after the summer slowdown, budgets get revisited, and most teams start planning for Q4 in earnest.

Your books belong on that same reset list. If you're heading into a busier quarter without a clear read on cash and spend, that's...

Year-end giving season is about 90 days out — and for most nonprofits, it's when close to a third of annual donations come in, in the space of a few weeks.

That's not the moment to discover your restricted fund tracking is off, or that your board can't get a clean report on short...

Three questions your board is likely to ask heading into fall: Are we on budget? Are restricted funds tracked correctly? Can we show the financials today, not next week?

If any of those is a "maybe," that's worth fixing before hiring season and year-end reporting both land at once.