Choosing Accounting Software

Join us to learn more about the systems your land trust needs to make tracking gifts and grants with donor restrictions accurate, consistent and easy to explain. In this webinar, you will learn how to reduce audit costs and prevent confusing records and reports on restricted gifts.

Land Trust Standards and Practices, Practice 6A. Fiscal Health, includes five elements. This module addresses Practice 6A4: Build and maintain sufficient operating reserves to sustain operations.

This is a dashboard reporting form for boards from the accredited Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy.

This document lays out the typical steps land trusts take when developing a budget, including projecting income and expenses and identifying fixed and variable expenses and their impact on costs.

This webinar will share innovative ideas for presenting financial reports so board members can better understand the financial picture of your land trust and focus on what is important.   ​ 

​​If you’ve been startled by audit adjustments, baffled by accounting terms or called on to explain land trust financial reports to skeptical board members who have read business financials for years but can’t make sense out of yours, this webinar is designed for you.

One size does not fit all when it comes to operating reserves. Despite the importance of the issue, there is no simple formula or benchmark. To answer the question of “how much,” an organization must examine revenue streams and spending levels.

An overview of the importance of having a clear policy and procedures for establishing and managing dedicated or permanently-restricted funds.

Not-for profit organizations have unique characteristics, so they must adhere to a specific set of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). This book provides practical guidance on how to identify and apply the relevant standards.

This guidance covers Practice 6D: Written Internal Controls.