Learning Objectives

This course will enable you

• To learn the basic accounting principles critical to the interpretation of financial statements

• To learn how to interpret an auditors report

• To acquire insights into the financial health of an organization through the use of basic financial calculations.

Faculty

THOMAS A MCLAUGHLIN
Senior Manager, Not-For-Profit Practice
Grant Thornton LLP, Boston, MA

Tom is a noted consultant, lecturer and author in the field of not-for-profit management, and a senior manager in the not-for-profit practice of Grant Thornton LLP .  McLaughlin, who has more than 30 years of experience in not-for-profit and trade association management.

He teaches graduate courses in strategic planning and financial management at Boston University and Brandeis University.  He is the author of numerous articles and several books, including “Trade Secrets for Nonprofit Managers” (2001, John Wiley & Sons, New York City), and lectures throughout the country on the subject of nonprofit management.
 
McLaughlin is currently a board member of the Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers in Boston, where he also served as associate director from 1984 to 1990.  He was director of contract administration at the Northeastern Family Institute in Danvers, Mass., from 1979 to 1984 and was director of the Newton-Wellesley-Weston Committee, a non-profit mental retardation services corporation in Newton, Mass., from 1977 to 1979.
 
He was selected as the first Nonprofit Scholar in Residence at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1999.  McLaughlin earned a bachelor of arts degree, a master of urban affairs degree and an MBA from Boston University.