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Guide to Financial Management

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Managing Overhead Costs

Download this chapter from the Course Handbook from our Training Course Planning for financial ustainability.

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2002 UK
2003 Southern Africa

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Financing Strategy example

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TT04 The Secrets of Financial Sustainability
TT14 Managing in the recession

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Budgeting
Building reserves
Developing a financing strategy
Elearning program
Financial sustainability
Online learning program
Overhead costs
Risk assessment
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        • Roundtables
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        • Senior Leader Convening
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        • All Courses
        • Compliance & Risk
          • Discover new and accessible USAID training in 2019
          • Understand Funding
          • Diversifying your funding?
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          • Become Effective
        • Programs
          • Plan ahead
          • PMD Pro Certification
        • Online
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        • Help With Fees
        • Buy 2 get 3rd place free on open workshops
        • Group subscription offer - USAID Assistance Management Certificate
          • Certificate: USAID Assistance Management
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          • Our supporters
          • Usage policy
          • Third party policy
          • Glossary
        • Financial management in context
          • What NGOs do
            • Empowerment
            • Service delivery
            • Capacity building
            • Lobbying
            • Humanitarian aid
          • Integrating financial management
          • Improving your financial management
        • Financial governance
          • Legal Requirements
            • Taxation
            • Anti-Fraud / Bribery Policy
          • Responsibilities
            • Senior managers
            • Finance staff
            • Donors
          • Seven principles
          • Audit
            • Internal audit
            • External audit
          • Finance manual
            • Developing a finance manual
            • What do you already have?
            • Who will use it?
            • Working with partners
            • Setting up a project reference team
            • Developing and editing the manual
          • Staffing a finance department
          • Fraud
        • Getting the basics right
          • Budgeting
            • Budget illustration
          • Accounting
            • Accounting software
            • Applicable accounting standards
          • Reporting
          • Internal control
            • Internal control examples
            • Procurement
        • Grant Management
          • Giving grants
            • Partner Assessment
          • Receiving funds
        • Financial sustainability
          • Types of funding
          • Building reserves
          • Risk assessment
          • Overhead costs
          • Developing a financing strategy
        • Working with beneficiaries
          • Reporting to beneficiaries
            • How to report to beneficiaries
          • Accountability
            • Three goals of accountability
            • Practical Problems with accountability
            • Way forward
            • Achieving Value for Money
          • A new management agenda
            • Helping people is difficult
            • What is wrong with Results based Management
            • Foundations for effective fieldwork
            • Two Golden Rules
            • Implications for NGOs
            • Implications for Donors
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          • Mango's Health check
          • Course handbook
          • Mango's Accounting pack
          • Quickbooks manual
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          • Tools and checklists
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            • 1998 Thailand
            • 2002 Kenya
            • 2002 UK
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