Course 405: Financial Planning for Nonprofit Organizations
Lesson 2 Exercise 2
Readings and Presentation Study Guide
NAME:
Based on your reading of the Chapter 7-12 in the Budget Building Book, and listening to the
tape and reviewing the presentation, please answer the following questions.
Unless I ask you to list something, please answer each question in complete sentences, in
coherent paragraphs, with proper spelling and grammar. Please also make sure to include
your name at the top of this paper so that once I print them out, I can see who wrote what!
Thank you!
1. How does money reveal what an organization, or an individual, really believes?
four to five sentences, and include at least one example.
Write
2. What are several practical things you can do in order to discern an organization’s culture.
List at least three different things and write two to three sentences about each.
a.
b.
c.
3. In three to four sentences for EACH topic, explain both performance based assessment
and learning based assessment.
a. Performance Based Assessment
b. Learning Based Assessment
4. What are three financial dangers that nonprofit organizations face?
a two to three sentences description of each.
a.
b.
c.
List them, and write
5. Describe the differences between a controlling organization and a partnership
organization. Write four to five sentences answering this question.
6. Describe both Top Down and Bottom Up Planning
Top Down Planning:
What are its advantages and disadvantages?
When it should be used
What is your experience with this type of planning?
work? Write two to three sentences.
Bottom Up Planning:
What are its advantages and disadvantages?
When it should be used
What worked and what didn’t
What is your experience with this type of planning?
work? Write two to three sentences.
What worked and what didn’t
7. List the three consequences of sharing power, and describe them in two to three
sentences each.
a.
b.
c.