As an association management company, we deal with many associations. Having worked in the association management industry for nearly twenty years, I’ve realized that how an association conducts business comes down to what is written in the by-laws. By-laws are the written rules and regulations for an association directing [...]
Member retention is an important area of focus for every association. Ensuring that your members are receiving value for their membership is a key to retaining existing members and recruiting new members. Many times, this means that the association should be identifying changing needs of members and introducing a [...]
Sixty to seventy-five percent of the revenue received by our association management clients is by way of credit card payment. If you can determine the total cost of credit card processing when comparing processors—which is very hard to do—you may find that the company offering the lowest processing rates [...]
Audits and Review Engagements are the typical year-end services offered by professional accountants to association and not-for-profit clients. For an association, the by-laws may dictate which type of service is required. If they do not, the type of service you require will depend on the degree of assurance you [...]
Anyone who has ever taken over a position from someone else knows that everyone has a unique way of filing electronic documents. Saving a file in one place may make sense to me but is not necessarily logical to my colleague. This issue came to the forefront in our [...]
A standardized file folder naming system, for both electronic and hard copy/paper documents, has many benefits that go beyond making it easier to find things, such as efficiency in training new staff, and reduced misfiling. Below is an overview of the system used by Strauss for association record keeping [...]
