| |  | | Good financial management involves managing an organization's resources to meet organizational goals and objectives as effectively as possible. |
Reading
Selected articles, practical guides, and illustrative case studies:
Managing Your Finances
This section of the The Family Planning Manager's Handbook will provide managers with a working knowledge of a number of financial management concepts and skills to help them prepare financial plans and to monitor closely and use their program's resources in the most responsible, appropriate, and cost-effective manner possible.
Understanding and Using Financial Management Systems to Make Decisions
Guide to Computerizing Your Accounting System
Using Cost and Revenue Analysis Tools
This issue of The Manager shows why a cost and revenue analysis is useful and suggests various options for increasing cost efficiency and revenue generation. The issue presents three electronic spreadsheet software tools for analyzing costs and revenues and discusses the types of decisions managers can make using these tools. The issue also presents the tools’ features, data requirements, and the kinds of information they can generate.
Assessing Your Organization’s Capacity to Manage Finances
This issue of The Manager offers financial and program managers—from headquarters to the service delivery level—solid reasons to assess their financial management systems and a method for performing this assessment. It introduces the Financial Management Assessment Tool, a step-by-step process and instrument for rapidly assessing budgeting, accounting, purchasing, and other financial systems. It describes how managers can use their assessment results to develop detailed action plans that can be incorporated into their organization’s annual operational plans.
