What Counts: Social Accounting for Nonprofits and Cooperatives, 2nd Edition
How do nonprofit organizations add value to communities? How can they create social capital out of the money invested in them? Can nonprofits and cooperatives measure their social performance and make their business case? How can nonprofits justify the public’s trust in them? How can nonprofits measure their outputs with more accuracy? What Counts: Social Accounting for Nonprofits and Cooperatives, 2nd Edition goes beyond traditional accounting and tells the story of nonprofit and cooperative performance.
Bio
Laurie Mook is an associate professor and associate director in the School of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University.
Praise for this book
This is a path-breaking book that has in a short time become a standard text for students and scholars of the social economy. Those who manage and govern nonprofit and cooperative organizations will benefit tremendously from the practical guides for incorporating systematic and analytical reports of social value in regular statements to stakeholders...This is a wonderful book—clear, practical and insightful—and destined to become a classic in the fields of management, accounting and nonprofit studies.
Brenda Gainer Royal Bank Professor of Nonprofit Management, and Director, Nonprofit Management and Leadership Program, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto
What Counts is stellar: it presents thoughtful and useful tools to count the social economy in the way it deserves to be! This book should be required reading for community leaders, policy makers and researchers alike.
Ann Armstrong Director, Social Enterprise Initiative, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
