Budget Management

Having a budget is a crucial piece of achieving your goals. Learn the fundamentals of creating and managing budgets for your organization with Maureen Miller. This workshop will explore key concepts of budgeting such as:

• Roles and responsibilities
• Different types of budgets
• Budget timeline
• Cyclical budget process
• Budget implementation

Attendees will review sample Excel budgets, including budget-to-actual, revenue summary and detail sheets, and both summary and detail sheets for personnel and non-personnel expenses.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will leave this workshop with an understanding of the steps necessary to create an annual budget and how to compare and analyze the budget to actual expenditures.

Target Audience:
Do you handle your organization’s annual budget? Then this workshop is for you!

About the Trainers:

Maureen Miller is an expert at developing efficient and impactful financial systems that support organizations in achieving their strategic fiscal goals. She is an expert at translating complicated financial information to people with varied levels of financial knowledge.

Maureen has decades of experience in financial management, including 12 years as a finance & administrative director at a New Hampshire state-wide nonprofit, 16 years working with three different organizations within the University of New Hampshire system (Sustainability Institute, Carsey School of Public Policy, and the Institute on Disability), and eight years as a financial management consultant for nonprofits and small businesses.

An executive director at a nonprofit that Maureen works with recently stated, “Maureen’s expertise in nonprofit financial management has been very beneficial to our organization. Her customizable services streamline the work of managing daily, monthly, and annual accounting and fiscal oversight. For our board, Maureen has developed more user-friendly reporting to increase their understanding and oversight of our organization’s financial health. Additionally, Maureen is a pleasure to collaborate with and brings infectious enthusiasm to her work.”

Through her nonprofit leadership, business management, and entrepreneur experience, she has come to understand what it takes to run an organization effectively, and she uses this knowledge to improve the work of leadership, directors, managers, direct staff, and administrative staff, so that they can better support the communities they serve.