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Accounting, Tax, and Reporting Requirements
Your complete reference for reporting requirements, this step-by-step guide covers public access to records, lobby issues, IRS audits, internal controls, unrelated business income tax, Form 990, Form 990-T, IRS reporting requirements, wholly-owned taxable subsidiaries, intermediate sanctions, required statement on membership forms, and the role of the independent CPA.
This completely revised and expanded edition includes three all-new chapters. Detailed appendices offer full explanations of the four accounting standards—SFAs #116, 117, 124 and 136—that primarily affect chambers of commerce.
Pages 173
Members $50.00
Non Members $75.00
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$156.50 for complete Chamber Financial Management Series
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Budgeting and Financial Management
Is your budget an annual exercise in drudgery? Replace an obsolete or ineffective system with one that works!
Take control of your chamber’s short and long-term financial plan. Break down time-consuming annual budgeting processes into twelve easy-to-manage increments that produce more accurate and effective resource allocation. The Continuous Budgeting System is easy for CEOs, CFOs or anyone with budgeting responsibilities to adopt.
Also included in this bestseller are sample forms and financial statements, templates for preparing budget documents for boards and valuable tips on how to use footnotes to present and explain financial statements thoroughly and with confidence.
Pages 140
Price: $50.00
Non Members: $65.00
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Keeping Members: The Myths & Realities
Are you recruiting for retention or just one year? This is just one of the strategic questions raised in this must-have resource. Member retention is the core business of any membership organization. This book dispels the 12 popular myths about retention and details key strategies for CEOs, staff and volunteers in recruiting and keeping members.
Pages 126
ACCE Members: $28.00
Non-members: $31.00
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Making Your Chamber Make A Difference
Author Mick Fleming, president of ACCE, makes the case for why chambers need to be involved in shaping public policy, then offers a menu of options and suggestions for crafting a policy agenda, understanding the issues, lobbying basics, grassroots lobbying, coalitions, e-advocacy, and measuring success.
Pages 82
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Member Retention Kit - 2008 Edition
The kit will help you:
- Understand how retention rates impact your bottom line.
- Explore the common reasons why members leave and why they stay.
- Discover the Member Experience Cycle and how these stages link to recruitment and retention.
- Identify your members' expectations and how to meet them better.
- Conduct a Member Retention Study to collect member feedback.
- Follow a step-by-step process to create a retention plan to build your membership base.
The Member Retention Kit includes:
- The Member Retention Guide: An Overview of Why Members Leave and How to Keep Them
- The Guide for Conducting a Member Retention Study—A Precursor to a Retention Plan
- The Retention Plan Template—A step-by-step process for creating your own plan
- Samples of Retention Implementation Ideas
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Pages 250
ACCE Members: $450.00
Non-members: $650.00
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Model Policies and Procedures
Chamber executives and board members are held accountable for virtually every aspect of their organization's activities, including finance, reporting requirements, accounting, administration, tax, internal controls, conflicts of interest, personnel, public disclosure of records among many others.
Strengthen your organization's financial procedures and assure board members that they are meeting fiduciary responsibilities. In addition, well-thought-out and thorough policies that comply with current tax law and accounting regulations will prove to be invaluable in the event of an IRS audit.
The book includes over 250 policies and 80 forms that you can easily customize for your chamber by simply downloading and customizing the information for your organization from an associated Web site.
Pages 274
ACCE Members: $65.00
Non-members: $80.00
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Retooling for Growth
Retooling for Growth
Effective Chambers of Commerce: A Key to Regional Economic Prosperity
The American Assembly has investigated and reported on emerging economic development strategies for weak market cities, aimed at meeting a major need as cities and metropolitan areas seek to find their place in the changing global economy. A crucial question facing weak market cities today is what economic development strategies should be used as these cities and metropolitan areas seek to find their place in the changing global economy. There is no easy fix here, but this Assembly represents a major opportunity to remove the public policies and practices that handicap these cities.
In collaboration with the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, the American Assembly issued a report, Retooling for Growth, that will serve as an action agenda for strengthening the economic development strategies, policies, and programs of weak market cities. ACCE contributed a chapter to Retooling that points to the specific role that business-civic groups can play to better position their respective metropolitan areas for sector-diverse, sustainable economic growth. Click here to download the chapter "Effective Chamber of Commerce: A Key to Regional Economic Prosperity." Chapter authors Steve Moret, Mick Fleming and Pauline O. Hovey.
Find out more about the supporting organization, the American Assembly at http://www.americanassembly.org/.
The entire publication can be ordered at the Brookings Institution http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2008/retoolingforgrowth.aspx.
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Step-by-Step: A Chief Executive's Toolkit
Five great books on governance and strategic planning help chamber executives lead their organizations to extraordinary results. Learn how to build an empowered board that is a strategic asset to be leveraged, not a legal requirement to be managed. Includes:
• The Nonprofit Chief Executive’s Ten Basic Responsibilities
• Leadership Roles in Nonprofit Governance
• Getting the Best from Your Board: An Executive’s Guide to a Successful Partnership
• Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards
• Meet Smarter: A Guide to Better Nonprofit Board Meetings
ACCE Members: $112.00 per 5-book series
Non-members: $120.00 per 5-book series
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The Essentials of Membership Development
An "insider's view" at what membership development means in a chamber of commerce today, this book offers tips and tools you can use to create a successful membership development operation. In addition, you will learn the necessary personal effectiveness skills and self-knowledge necessary for successful membership development.
Here are just some of the included samples, models, and advice:
- dozens of model membership policies & procedures
- membership professional & chamber board interactions
- legal implications of membership sales
- sample tiered dues structures
- definitions and formulas to calculate retention, cost of membership sales, and more
- inside sales telephone scripts
- answers to common sales objections
About the Author
Dawn A. Moliterno is the President & CEO of the Walton County (FL) Chamber of Commerce. Prior to joining this chamber, she shared her expertise in marketing, communication, and strategic development with chambers of commerce throughout the nation through her company, Introspect Associates LTD. Dawn has won a number of national and regional awards for her efforts, and has served on the Board of Directors for the former National Alliance for Membership Development (NAMD).
Pages 295
ACCE Member Price: $65.00
Non-Members: $85.00
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