Finance and program alignment has become a growing priority for nonprofits and grant-funded organizations. Finance teams and program staff are often working toward the same mission, but they approach decisions from different perspectives and with different levels of financial context. Program leaders are focused on delivering services, meeting contractual obligations,...
Rethinking Approval Processes: Requisitions, Check Requests, or a Hybrid?
Approval workflows shape how an organization actually functions. They influence who has visibility into spending, when commitments are recognized, how quickly vendors are paid, and how cleanly an audit proceeds. In many nonprofits and government organizations, these processes were never deliberately designed. They developed gradually as workarounds to immediate problems,...