Year: 2012

Feature length Cartoons

YouTube views of cartoons increasing

by Jim Ulvog

Views on YouTube for all my cartoons have been running about 50 a week during 2012. For reasons I cannot detect, the traffic on the two main cartoons has surged.

In three weeks, there 363 viewings of part 1.  In those same three weeks, part 2 was watched 108 times.

Total views to date for part 1 are 2,030 with total views for part 2 at 385.

Each cartoon is about 8 minutes.  Here are the links:

Bank reconciliations and offering count procedures:

 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qeibzgSemY]

Good procedures protect from false accusations:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KESsI04-XY]

Internal control

Some traps church business administrators need to avoid

by Jim Ulvog

(cross-post from my other blog, Nonprofit Update.)

The urgency of things that must be addressed now can take focus away from bigger issues that have long-term payoff.  Verne Hargrave, CPA, of PSK has started a good series on traps that business administrators can fall into because of tyranny of the urgent.

Looks to be a very helpful series. Would be worth your time to visit his blog regularly. Maybe even set it up on your RSS feed.  I’ll highlight it occasionally.

Ten Things to Avoid  in Church Administration starts the discussion. Mr. Hargrave points out a few problems that can arise if tyranny-of-the-urgent takes over your life: (more…)