Not-For-Profit assign.

ACCT 456 – Accounting for Nonprofit Organizations Fall 2015

Chapter 13 Take-home portion of Final Exam

Part 1

Access the Charity Navigator website at http://www.charitynavigator.org/.

Choose one charity from either of these categories in the Top Ten Lists (tab at top of page): consistently low-rated charities; charities routinely in the red; charities in deep financial trouble; inefficient fund raisers.

Choose another charity from the other categories in the Top Ten Lists.

Compare both of the charities chosen based upon the following criteria: Overall score; Financial score; Accountability & Transparency score. Include in your discussion the Financial Performance Metrics (program expenses percentage, administrative expenses percentage, and fundraising expenses percentage); any Accountability & Transparency Performance Metrics that you assume detracted from the rating; and indicators that you would give the greatest weight when evaluating the chosen organizations.

Part 2

Access the following article, What Charity Navigator Gets Wrong about Effective Altruism, Stanford Social Innovation Review, by William MacAskill at http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/what_charity_navigator_gets_wrong_about_effective_altruism. If the link does not result in the article, you should search the web for access.

Read the article (note the author’s credentials and affiliations) and choose a position related to the argument (support or do not support—neutral is not a choice). Given your choice of position, provide a one paragraph case to support your opinion.