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Operations. Analytics. Strategy.
Who we serve
Charitable Nonprofits ♦ Mission Agencies ♦ Ministries
Social Services ♦ Churches
Your organization faces an array of demanding challenges. Resourcing, staffing, training, and compliance are just a few of the tasks requiring your undivided attention. Managing your accounting team is another responsibility that drains and distracts you from your mission.
With Cedarstone Accounting Services, the everyday management of your back office operations is skillfully handled by our experienced and professional staff. Your key constituents will have accurate, timely and usable financial and donor data. Difficult decisions will be less stressful because you have the information you need.
Executives
You are the leader of your organization. You are passionate about its mission. You see the potential to make a meaningful difference, but the challenges you face are significant.
Are any of these organizational challenges related to your back-office? Do you find it difficult to get reliable financial data? If you can get data, do you trust the data? Is it accurate? Is the financial data available when you need it and in a format that you and your key staff can use? Are your donors being served and supported? Are their donations being receipted accurately? Is your donor data base current and accessible?
Cedarstone assumes your operational burden for staffing, managing, processing, and systematizing your back-office accounting department — saving time, money and headache for your organization. We provide the specialized nonprofit expertise and financial oversight expected by your staff, board of directors, and donor constituency. You and your staff receive financial, program and donor data that is accurate, timely, and useful for decision making. With Cedarstone, you are freed to expend more of your energies on outcomes and impact.
Board Members
You are excited about the vision and impact of the organization and the opportunity to serve. You are grateful to offer your expertise and experience. However, as a member of the board you also have key governance responsibilities such as execution of the vision, compliance to regulatory changes, and adherence to the values and ethical standards of the organization.
Over the past decade, board member expectations have increased due to regulatory abuses. The rules and regulations governing nonprofits seem to be in constant change. One important area in which Cedarstone can work with your board is in the development of financial control policies. Our internal control procedures keep the organization compliant in its financial activities. We provide your auditors with the work papers necessary to complete your organization's tax filings. We also assist with ECFA applications and reviews.
Development Directors
The generosity of your donors is key to accomplishing the mission of the organization. As the development director, you are responsible for maintaining these relationships as well as establishing new ones. Senior executives and board members expect your development message to be clear, creative, measurable and strategic so that the impact of the organization will be felt.
Cedarstone provides donor and financial information that is key to your development strategy. Our donor related processes and systems ensure accurate, timely, and useful data. We provide historical perspective; support targeted communications; and deliver measurable outcomes.
Missionary Staff
As a staff person, you have more to do than you have hours in your day. You especially have limited time for managing your ministry financial and donor data, yet it is an important part of your responsibilities.
Cedarstone Accounting Services assures that you have current financial and donor data that is timely, accurate, and user friendly. Cedarstone provides electronic access for submitting expense reports and related receipts, tracking donations and donor information, monitoring your ministry fund balance and accessing salary details. Your Cedarstone team works with you to make sure your needs are met. We assume the burden so that you have time to focus on what you were called to do.
Program Directors
You have leadership over the complex administration, management and delivery of organizational programs. You are required to react quickly to a wide range of changes, and access to current data is key to helping you respond to these changes.
In addition to the standard financial reports, your Cedarstone team develops and delivers reports tailored to your program needs. Our goal is to keep you abreast of the most current information, and to present it in a way that is actionable - either in reaction to changes or as part of your strategic plan.
Donors and Volunteers
You are excited about the purposes of the organization. As part of your stewardship, you want to know where your donation is being used and that it is being used effectively.
Cedarstone assists the organization in the management of the details of your donation, tracking it from receipt to its use in accomplishing organizational purposes. We help the organization use its resources as effectively as possible by providing the expertise needed in today's complex nonprofit world. We strive for efficiency so that we can keep an organization's administrative expenses low.