Management Assistance & Organizational Development Enterprise (MODE)  

Wednesday - September 23, 2009

8:30 A.M. Registration  |  9:00 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. Workshop

Houston Arts Alliance  |  2nd Floor Large Conference Room

3201 Allen Parkway, Suite 250  |  Houston, Texas, 77019

Registration Fee: $25 - Limited Capacity, so register now!

About the workshop:

Non-profit organizations are businesses with their own language.  When it comes to bookkeeping for non-profits, the buzz words are donations instead of sales receipts, donors instead of customers, and volunteer hours instead of vendors.  The bookkeeping and financial needs are unique to their world.

QuickBooks Premier Non-Profit edition utilizes the nomenclature of non-profit businesses.  However, non-profits don't need to go out and purchase this more expensive, special edition to follow proper bookkeeping procedures.  The standard versions of QuickBooks work just fine for non-profit and profit-seeking businesses alike as long as they are designed properly.  This seminar explains how non-profits can utilize QuickBooks, highlighting these three points:

• The Nonprofit Edition - Myth vs. Reality
• Meeting the Unique Needs of the Nonprofit
• Board Reporting - Making it easy

About the Presenter: 

Margaret Gow is Senior Manager of Accounting Systems at GrowthForce. 

Margaret has been described as "a rock star" in the QuickBooks world.  She has been using and studying the leading software for small businesses since its inception in the early '90's.  She traveled the country for five years teaching QuickBooks for Real World Training company.  She advised Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, in developing future versions of the software and she co-authored the certification exam for the QuickBooks Professional Advisor program.With that background, she has GrowthForce clients singing her praises since she joined the firm in early 2007.  Her responsibilities include supervising QuickBooks Systems design and training.  Her teaching ability is well-established having been on the full-time faculty at University of Houston Downtown for ten years.

Her previous position was director of Rio Bend Organization.  The non-profit organization was founded by Christine Delay, wife of former U.S. Congressman Tom Delay.  Rio Bend runs a planned community of homes for foster families in Richmond, TX.

While helping kids is her passion, her true vocation is to help small businesses grow using QuickBooks, training clients and end users, and sharing all her knowledge of QuickBooks.

Registration Policy:

Mailed checks must be postmarked by Friday, September 18, 2009.  All checks should be made payable to Houston Arts Alliance.  Deadline for all credit card registrations is 12pm Monday, September 21, 2009.  At that time your registration is confirmed only if you have completed both your online registration and faxed the completed Workshop Registration Sheet with billing information to 713.630.5210.

For more information regarding the workshop, please contact:

Jerome Vielman

Program & Services Manager

Houston Arts Alliance

3201 Allen Parkway, Suite 250 | Houston | TX | 77019

Dir: 713.527.9330  x.117  |  Fax: 713.620.5120  |  Email: jerome@haatx.com

NEW website: www.houstonartsalliance.com