Common Cents® Training

The quickest path to financial accountability for your nonprofit

More on the Program & Its Benefits

Program:Nonprofit Consulting Services’ Common Cents® training gives your organization everything you need to establish and maintain fiscal controls. The training includes:

• Pre-training consultation to review your organization's fiscal challenges and issues
• Two full days of hands-on training, during which participants draft a complete, personalized fiscal policies and procedures manual and an implementation plan
• A copy of the Common Cents® manual, a thorough guide to creating a fiscal policies and procedures manual that serves as a post-training resource and a great training aid for colleagues who can't attend the training
• Post-training follow-up to ensure participants are on schedule with manual implementation and to provide help with any challenges that have arisen

Benefits: The Common Cents ® training is designed to bring the greatest possible value to participating organizations. The training is:

Customized
The training is tailored to your organization's needs and culture, delivering much greater value than traditional training provides. Training content is 100 percent relevant to the opportunities and challenges faced by your organization, and participants are engaged and far more likely to carry out what they learn as they launch and manage your organization's critical fiscal policies and procedures manual.

Comprehensive
Our training process immerses CFOs, business managers, accounting staff and others in two full days of learning and practice to draft their own fiscal policies and procedures manual. Our "fiscal management boot camp" format guarantees that your staff members leave:

• With an understanding of every relevant fiscal management topic, from revenue and cash receipts to insurance coverage and record retention.
• Prepared to bring the draft of your fiscal policies and procedures manual to life, to amend it as your organization grows and changes, and to strengthen your organization's fiscal operations on an ongoing basis.

Affordable
Many nonprofits spend thousands of dollars to hire an accountant/consultant to create their fiscal policies and procedures manuals. However, through the Common Cents® training, your organization can create the same manual and build knowledge to strengthen overall fiscal management and revise the manual as needed over time, saving thousands of dollars.

Common Cents© pricing structure is affordable and simple. Click here to view the pricing structure. Associations and nonprofit networks are given special cost considerations.

Delivers Results
By the end of the training, participants will be able to improve internal controls, clarify roles and responsibilities, and develop more efficient systems to manage their agency's funds while reducing risk of misappropriations.

The results speak for themselves. Over 86 percent of participants have reported enhancing internal controls as a result of attending the training and nearly percent of participants to date have implemented the entire fiscal policies and procedures manual within their organization. With such a high success rate, you can feel confident in getting a good return on your training investment.