Nonprofit update

Last year I created two cartoons about internal controls for local churches. Those cartoons are featured on my other blog, Once Upon Internal Control.

Views on YouTube for all my cartoons have been running about 50 a week during 2012. For reasons I cannot detect, the traffic on the two main cartoons has surged.

In three weeks, there were 363 viewings of part 1.  In those same three weeks, part 2 was watched 108 times.

Total views to date for part 1 are 2,030 and for part 2 are 385.

Each cartoon runs about 8 minutes.  Here are the cartoons – -

Bank reconciliations and offering count procedures:

Good procedures protect from false accusations:

(Cross-post from Once Upon Internal Control.)

The Domino Project (Seth Godin’s new publishing effort) has published Death & Taxes.

It is a chart showing the federal budget on just one page. Good example of creative visualization.

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Previously looked at a visual comparing US states to other countries. This visual compares metropolitan areas to countries.

If U.S. Cities Were Countries, How Would They Rank?

A few tidbits from the article:

• Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana has a GDP comparable to Netherlands, which makes it sized same as the 18th largest economy in the world Read the rest of this entry »

New cartoon is available at Once Upon Internal Control.

Good procedures protect against false accusations – feature cartoon #2 from Once Upon Internal Control illustrates another way that good procedures can  protect your staff. Cartoon runs about 8 1/2 minutes.

The first feature cartoon is here.

I am enjoying the idea of teaching accounting or economics or other complex stuff through some creative method. Have had several posts on the topic. So intrigued by the idea that I’ve started producing cartoons. (See my other blog, once upon internal control.)

How’s this for an idea? Writing a full-length murder mystery novel with the goal of teaching auditing, taxes, IT and forensic accounting. That has been the approach of Prof. Larry Crumbley. In his spare time he has written 13 educational novels. Started back in 1988.

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Some short scenes have been combined into a 9 minute cartoon along with an intro and extro. The first of several feature-length cartoons is available on my other blog, Once Upon Internal Control. This one discusses some creative internal controls over cash and a few ideas on how to maintain security over the offering until it is counted by the count team. More to follow!

Cartoon can be found at:

Once Upon Internal Control – part 1