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Financial management in the voluntary sector : new challenges
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The voluntary sector contains over 50,000 organizations, 320,000 paid staff, and 3 million volunteers. The accounting and financial management of organizations in this sector poses as many difficul...
The voluntary sector contains over 50,000 organizations, 320,000 paid staff, and 3 million volunteers. The accounting and financial management of organizations in this sector poses as many difficulties as that of major for-profit organizations, if not more so, given the absence of the profit motive upon which much traditional accounting, finance practice and theory has been developed.This book explores the unique environmental, managerial and philosophical aspects of voluntary organizations as well as the technical specialist characteristics of financial accounting, auditing and taxa
Details
- Creator
- Paul Palmer and Adrian Randall
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2002
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781134597765, 1134597762, 9780429242281, 042924228X, 9781134597772, 1134597770, 9781280139130, 1280139137, 9780203996577, 0203996577, 0415221609, 0415221595
- OCLC
- ocn264451343, on1000434278
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- English
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Voluntary sector environment - definitions, history; 2 Management issues; 3 Charity accounts - the background; 4 Published accounting standards; 5 Issues in charity accounting; 6 Regulatory framework and audit requirements; 7 Management accounting; 8 Performance evaluation for voluntary organizations; 9 Banking and investment; 10 Charity tax; 11 Future directions; Appendix; Bibliography; Index