What Fund Accounting trends are you watching?

Carrie Watkins

Hi, Blackbaud Financial Community! I’m the Content Marketing Manager for the Financial Management team, and we’re getting started on our content planning for 2024. We want to dig into the topics you find most interesting for the webinars, blog posts, and guides we produce next year.

Which of these themes are you watching or interested in learning more about for your finance team as part of your nonprofit organization, center, foundation, school, or university? Let us know your priorities in the comments.

Fund Accounting Topics

• Communicating a cohesive financial story across stakeholders
• Selecting, managing, and analyzing diverse revenue streams
• Advancements in technology, such as AI and integrations, and how they might affect your organization
• Making data-driven decisions/data health
• Having the right finance staff in place
• Security of financial information, compliance, and fraud protection
• Working across teams to create accurate forecasting and strategy
• Partner management, including how to identify and select the best partners for your organization
• Analyzing current and future revenue streams and managing costs to drive long-term sustainability
• Other (please describe)

Standard Cyclical Topics

We plan to highlight these topics each year as each season approaches or as new angles develop. How would you prioritize these topics in terms of potential webinars and guides? Are there any that we missed?

• Financial Audits
• Budgeting
• Internal Controls
• Automation
• Reporting on the use of donor funds
• Grant compliance and reporting