Four Leaf 4-minute Tips
Out of Office - Not Just for Vacations
Ever wish you could just shut everything down so you could push that project over the finish line? How about taking a work vacation? Jill gives you her most effective productivity tip, the out-of-office message for focused work.
Create Your Ideal Week
Ever felt like your calendar rules your day instead of the other way around? Take control and amp up your productivity by creating an Ideal Week (Month, Quarter, Year) Calendar.
Benefits of Team One on One Meetings
Who needs another meeting in their life? Maybe you just aren’t having the right meetings. Founder and Managing Partner, Jill Foley, gives you tips for the most important meeting of your week - the weekly one-to-one with your team.
Customize financial reports
Do your financial statements tell you how to run your business? If not, then perhaps custom reports are just what you need. Jenn Dimeck, Four Leaf’s reporting ninja, reveals her secret to timely and informative custom reports in under 4 minutes.
5 Tips to protect your assets
With everyone working from home, who is minding the store? Four Leaf Founder and Managing Partner, Jill Foley, CPA, gives you 5 easy steps to protect your assets during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Set remote work boundaries
Is working from home meaning you are working all of the time? Jenn Dimeck, Partner and CIO of Four Leaf, has been working from home for over ten years! She gives you her best tips to stay sane in less than four minutes.
Event Sponsorships - How to Maximize Fundraising
Jenn shows us the strategies and the tax implications of doing fundraising.
Conditional Contributions
Jill fills us in on the changes to grant awards. Grants are often given to organizations for important initiatives. Recently, grants have been recategorized as conditional contributions. Now, finance and development must work together to recognize the revenue.
Unconditional Pledges
New revenue recognition standards affect how non-profits account for unconditional pledges. Review your award letters for multi year pledges to correctly identify how to record these. Get your finance and development teams working together on multi-year pledges.
Direct Donor Benefit - How to Forecast Special Event Income
Don't get surprised by your special event income statements by following these simple guidelines.
In Kind Contributions for Special Events
The most commonly donated items should be divided into multiple categories when recording their value. Jenn goes over the considerations that should be applied to donated items, services, and how to approach recording auctions.
Raffles and Games
Jenn fills us in on the details of running a raffle or game night for your non-profit. Be careful of running a poker night. You could be subject to criminal liability if you don't look closely at your state's laws. Some states allow for games of chance, while others do not.
Restricted Net Assets
Jill explains one of the least understood elements in non-profit finance. Unrestricted contributions can be used for any purpose, while restricted contributions must be applied to a specific project.
Gifts In Kind Contributions - How to Record Tangible Items or Services
Jill reviews the details of receiving goods and other tangible items as non-cash contributions.