​What makes the best accountants great at what they do? Is it financial acumen? Experience across various accounting functions? Years of expertise? Industry-specific knowledge? Sure, those are certainly important, especially at the leadership level!
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However, when you need to hire an accounting manager, there’s one indicator of success that often gets overlooked – being a good listener.

Nonprofit leaders have a reputation of being strong in the areas of compassion, communication, and ambition, but being weaker in their financial acumen. And, you know, that isn’t a bad thing at all! No one can be the best at everything, which is why we have so many nonprofit clients that bring us in to supplement their team of passionate advocates and leaders with our financial skills and experience.
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We understand the intricacies of how nonprofit accounting differs from for-profit accounting and bring that expertise to every engagement. We do what we do best – cleaning up the books, ensuring grant accounting regulations are followed, improving financial reporting for stakeholders, maintaining cash flow to fund programming, and aiding in growth planning initiatives – so that nonprofit leaders can do what they do best – leading the kinds of organizations that can change the world!

But for leaders that want to better understand what’s most important in nonprofit accounting, we’re always willing to lend our expertise to help them grow professionally. So, today we’re providing a high-level overview of what makes nonprofit accounting unique to offer a sort of crash course in NFP accounting. 

​Typically, it’s followed by questions like:

• How can I tell if the team has the right skillset to do the job we need done?
• Do they have the resources needed to do their jobs effectively?
• Should we hire more personnel to lend additional expertise or bear the workload better?
• Should we make a change to our accounting policies or procedures?
• Is our accounting software helping or hurting the problems we’re experiencing?

ASP is pleased to announce that they will now be expanding into the Dallas-Fort Worth area with offices in Dallas/Frisco and Fort Worth. Adding to their main headquarters in Bellevue, WA and satellite offices in Portland and Denver this expansion allows them to provide outsourced accounting services and recruiting across not only the Pacific Northwest and Colorado but also North Texas. 

Recently, we have noticed an interesting trend in accounting hiring. More Assistant Controller roles are being posted than our team ever remembers seeing before. And those roles aren’t staying open for long! Assistant Controller hires are definitely on the rise, especially among startups and mid-market companies.

While 2022 was dubbed “The Year of the Controller” because of the astronomical rise in controller hires from 2021-2022, this year could probably just as well be called, “The Year of the Assistant Controller” because our team is seeing a sustained spike in interest from companies looking to hire an Assistant Controller for the first time.