Not-for-profit accounting for exchange transactions can be difficult. Recent accounting standards such as Accounting Standards Codification 606 (ASC 606) can add to the complexity. All transactions with customers must be accessed using the five step approach. Within the five steps are multiple additional considerations that also need to be addressed depending on the nature of the transaction. This webinar will guide you through those five steps and help you apply them to your organization’s transactions with customers. The webinar will help you understand the differences between contributions and exchange transactions.

You’re probably sitting on a goldmine of data and don’t even realize it. In fact, now more than ever, associations are collecting mountains of data but don’t have a data strategy to actively drive member growth.

Many times, association leaders feel as though they’re drowning in information with no real way to leverage it to solve their most pressing questions. Instead, they get bogged down with worries about the data itself, effectively blocking them from using it to help them increase growth and member retention.

Ask yourself: Have I had one of these questions in the past 6 months?

• Is the data I have useful or even reliable?
• How do I go about getting the data out of our systems in the first place?
• With all this data (or “lack of data”), how do I use it to make change for the better?
• How can I offer better courses, incentives, or services to my members?
• Why are my members leaving? How can I get more of them to renew their membership?
• Where can I cut costs? What systems or services are wasting time and money?

Most associations are leveraging multiple systems to engage with members. But having multiple systems means that there are multiple data sources out there that are not connected. This leads to inaccurate data and frustration for customers who must repeatedly enter the same information to engage with associations. At the same time data integrations that directly tie one system to another can leave associations with a web of data that is not always consistent. Instead, associations should be taking a more strategic approach to their data by evaluating if they need an integration platform to support their integrations and ensure they are set up for long term success. This session will introduce the concept of an integration platform, discuss the pros and cons of implementing such a system, and provide some steps to take if an integration platform is right for your organization.

The New NetForum Cloud and Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure has become  the “enterprise cloud” used by 95% of the Fortune 500 because it offers sophisticated yet risk-averse organizations (such as large companies or associations) a powerful combination of cutting-edge capabilities, security, and familiarity.

The same can be said for the new NetForum Cloud AMS – over 30 modules and nearly 20 years of Enterprise AMS functionality, now rebuilt to be cloud native on Azure and featuring Nucleus data analytics.

Join us for a fast-moving overview of how associations are using this new combination of technologies to deliver never-before-possible insights to staff, leadership, the Board – and even members!

Enterprise Cloud, Enterprise AMS, and Data Analytics for Associations – see  what’s now possible at 11AM Eastern on Thursday, September 30^thg and receive 1.5 hours of CAE/CPE credit at no cost.

GKG Law’s Trade & Professional Associations team will be conducting an interactive Workshop in conjunction with UST Education. The 1.5 hour workshop (CAE and CPE credit awarded to attendees), Navigating Key Legal Issues of Hybrid & In-Person Events Post-COVID, will be led by practice group leader Rich Bar

If your association is cautiously approaching 2021 as the year for rebuilding your conferences and events, you’ll need to have strong planning and strategy in place not to mention a high level of flexibility in the lingering pandemic “normal.” This 1.5 hour workshop is designed to quickly get you up to speed on how to plan for future events while making you aware of key legal considerations to keep your organization protected. 

This workshop is designed to be a highly interactive open forum with your peers and will be led by GKG Law’s seasoned attorneys, who have years of first-hand experience partnering with associations on their events. A survey will be distributed prior to the workshop to ensure that the most pressing issues and concerns are discussed during these sessions. 

Topic:  Navigating In-Person Events in a Pandemic-Disrupted World
This will be an open forum discussion and Q&A around negotiation strategies, useful contract language, and risk mitigation.

Did you know that PCI Compliance starts with your finance team.  In this course you will learn best practices of Associations and non profit organizations in for implementing PCI Compliance.  The course starts with a basic overview of what PCI Compliance is and what it is designed to achieve.  Next we review 9 practical tips that you can implement immediately in your organization to ensure a more secure payment environment.  Finally we review the Self-Assessment-Questionnaire (SAQ), and what you should know about it.

To drive more registrations, create authentic engagement, and maximize value for the sponsors of your next event – whether it’s virtual, in-person, or hybrid – event professionals must include the real voices of their community in their event content. It’s not enough just to produce high-quality sessions. When organizations co-create event content with their communities, the results are tremendous.

Join Michael Hoffman, co-founder and CEO of Gather Voices, and Fallon Cryer, co-founder and Partner at beedance, for a discussion about how leading organizations are using authentic video content from real people to deliver more valuable opportunities to their event sponsors and create truly engaging experiences for attendees.

This 90 minute course will cover tax topics that are relevant for business associations.  It will span topics such a common unrelated business income (UBI) tax on associations, state payroll implications as a result of the increase in remote workers, and recent developments in sales and use tax nexus and taxability rules impacting business associations.