Colorado Nonprofit Association

Training: Financial Analysis for “Smarties”

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

There are numerous users of nonprofit’s financial information: Boards, banks, donors, investors, grantors, regulators, watchdog orgs…come learn what key indicators THEY are looking for and what trends and indicators YOU should be monitoring.

Recorded 6/6/23.

PRESENTED BY:

Steven W. Sauer, CPA

Steve is a member of the Nonprofit, Education and Public Sector Practice. For more than 15 years, he has served a variety of domestic and international nonprofits. He leads Colorado’s nonprofit attestation practice and Colorado’s nonprofit advisory practice, which includes services such as outsourced CFO and controller engagements, grants management, internal control and operational assessments, peer-to-peer benchmarking, best practice reviews, software selection, and on-demand training/educational/governance resources.

He is a frequent presenter, trainer, and panelist for a variety of nonprofit industry groups. Steve is a regular author and instructor for FORVIS’ nationally acclaimed FORsights™ as well as FORVIS’ annual nonprofit and public sector seminars. He has served on a variety of FORVIS internal office inspections as well as firmwide task forces to research and implement significant standards changes, including FASB’s Revenue from Contracts with Customers and Presentation of Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Entities and the AICPA’s Group Audit standards.

Steve is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and COCPA. He currently serves as treasurer for Village Seven Presbyterian Church and for Disabling Barriers (a Colorado Springs grant-making foundation), as well as a member of the COCPA’s nonprofit industry resource panel. Steve is a 2013 graduate of the Leadership Pikes Peak Leadership NOW! program, which is designed to train participants in leadership and civic-minded skills.

He is a 2007 magna cum laude graduate of University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, with a B.S. degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting.