Exercise: Analyzing Financial Information of a Non-Profit Publisher

Abstract

This is an exercise that is part of the Negotiation Planning Part 3 lesson in the Foundations module of the ONEAL Project curriculum. Purpose This exercise supports the ONEAL (Open Negotiation Education for Academic Libraries) learning objective: analyze your library’s position in negotiations by helping learners evaluate vendor performance. Skills The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills that are essential when planning for negotiations: analyzing vendor financial data for trends. Tasks In this exercise you are going to learn how to analyze the financial information you can find for a nonprofit publisher, in this case, the American Chemical Society. You will be reading their annual report and 990, finding key pieces of information, inputting it into a spreadsheet analysis, and interpreting the data.