Background on Accounting

Summary:

Some useful links that offer information about accounting questions, organizations, and practices.

This is, of course, a big subject.

Here are a few links that may offer help with understanding the field or some specific question:

• http://www.1800net.com/nprc/index.html (see the drop down menus right at the top of the screen).
  
• http://www.nonprofitexpert.com/financial%20management.htm.
  
• Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting by Robert J. Freeman, Craig D. Shoulders. Order this book from Amazon.com.
  
• "Improving Disclosure and Transparency in Nonprofit Accounting" by Gerald Aranoff, Ph.D. CPA. Published in Management Accounting Quarterly Spring 2003. http://www.imanet.org/pdf/1261.pdf.