Assignment
http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/522/522345144/522345144_201412_990.pdf?_ga=1.64191599.1553211607.1477880190 ( A wider circle NFP)
http://awidercircle.org/wp-content/uploads/A-Wider-Circles-2015-audit.pdf (NFP-A wider circle audit)
http://www.collegeparkmd.gov/document_center/Finance/CAFR/FY2015CAFR.pdf (City of College Park, Md-CAFR Government Entity).
For this assignment, you will select a CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Financial Report) from a municipality in your area. You will also select an NFP (Not for Profit) entity and the related IRS form 990. You will write a paper on the CAFR and a separate on the NFP. Relate topics from our class discussions to your entity. Discussion postings should assist you in completing your deliverables. Power Point presentations based on each paper will be prepared and posted in the class discussions for discussion and comments.
Both the CAFR analysis and the NFP analysis enable you to demonstrate your comprehension of the course subject matter and your ability to communicate effectively in writing. You are to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of 1) a governmental entity and 2) a not-for-profit organization of your choosing. You will need to identify each organization's mission statement and then describe the extent to which the mission is being accomplished. You will need to identify criteria for the evaluation of the mission statement, measure achievement using these criteria, and offer a conclusion on the evidence presented.
CAFR and NFP - Papers or CCR reports; Power Points
1. Select a CAFR from a municipality in your area. Present it in a discussion for approval.
2. Select an NFP statement or an IRS form 990. The www.foundationcenter.org web site will be helpful to locate the most recently available form 990. Present it in a discussion for approval.
3. Write a brief paper on the CAFR and a separate paper on the NFP. Relate topics from our textbook to your entity. Our discussion postings should assist you in completing your deliverables. The CAFR is your main resource for your government entity and the form 990 is the resource for your NFP. A paper should be three to four pages, single spaced. You may add graphics from your source document but limit this to no more than 50% of your space (i.e. a four page paper with no more than two pages of graphics, total.
4. Prepare a Power Point presentation (CCR: templates and guidance at www.agacgfm.org ) based on each paper to post in our discussion in week 8 for discussion and comments. Submit only the papers in the assignment folders. The Power Point presentations (or the CCR) will be posted initially only in the discussion. Note the separate due dates for each item: the CAFR paper, the NFP paper, and the two Power Point presentations (or CCR). This is a total of 4 documents, 2 for the municipality and 2 for the NFP. Your municipality may be at the local or state level. After the discussion you should submit your CAFR and NFP Power Point presentations. For this reason you will find four separate items in the assignment folder: CAFR_Paper; NFP_Paper; cafr Presentation; nfp Presentation. * The presentation should be no more than 10 slides.
** All documents for our class require a Works Cited Page. A paper also requires APA format for citations in text.
5. Each paper (CAFR and / or NFP) should be three to four pages in length plus the works cited page. Relate topics from our textbook to your entity. Our discussion postings should assist you in completing your deliverables.
6. The entities you select, for the CAFR and the NFP analysis, must be new to you. That is, you must not have used them in a previous class.
7. Four deliverables:
1. Government Entity CCR or paper
2. Government Entity Power Point presentation (post in discussion for peer review; then post final version in assignment folder for grading based on due dates)
3. NFP Entity CCR or paper
4. NFP Entity Power Point presentation (post in discussion for peer review; then post final version in assignment folder for grading based on due dates)