Understand the independent school business model and learn to be a good steward of your school's financial resources to work more collaboratively around financial issues.
Discover the most common as well as emerging benefits programs and structures, best practices to stay in compliance and cultural considerations for implementation.
Learn to engage with employees in an empathetic manner while still clearly conveying important information and safeguarding your school from liability.
Explore the many responsibilities of business office professionals— from day-to-day finance, operation, and risk management to strategic leadership — and managing key relationships with the greater school community.
Calculate your school's Composite Financial Index (CFI) score — a tool trusted in higher education for decades — and learn how you can use the score and its 4 underlying ratios to think strategically about your school's financial strengths and weaknesses.
Learn best practices related to gift reporting, compliance and donor stewardship, as well as how to develop a successful and strategic partnership between the financial and development functions at your school.
Learn tactical best practices related to the financial aid process to enhance the strategic partnership between the business and admissions offices and ensure long-term success.
With special events come implicit legal issues that require specific insurance coverage. Learn how to manage those details and how to create best practices to ensure minimal risk.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is a game- changer for organizations investing in clean energy technologies. Federal tax credits were created under the IRA. Combined with the underlying base credits, these benefits can result in credit rates over 50%.
Join NBOA’s volunteer Human Resources Council and Janice P. Gregerson, counsel, Venable LLP, as they discuss how schools can address the complex challenges of employee mental health and best practices relating to ADA requests and employee privacy.
In construction management, the business officer plays a key role in both project management and securing overall financial viability. This session presents a “partnering” model that keeps you in the mainstream of critical project decision making.
Explore innovative and entrepreneurial ideas to increase non-tuition revenue and community-building programming. Using case studies from several independent schools, veteran directors will illustrate scalable ideas across program areas.
