John Carver & Miriam Carver 
A Carver Policy Governance Guide, Volume 3, Revised and Updated, The Governance of Financial Management [PDF ebook] 

The Carver Policy Governance Guide series includes six
booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver’s
Policy Governance model of board leadership. Policy Governance
enables a board to fulfill its accountability to its organization’s
‘owners, ‘ whether the owners are association members, city
residents, company shareholders, or a community of interest. Policy
Governance addresses the board’s engagement in financial,
programmatic, and personnel matters; roles of officers and
committees; reporting and evaluation; agendas; and other aspects of
the board job.

The Governance of Financial Management offers a proven
strategic approach to the issues of finances and board
responsibility. It reveals how a board can effectively govern an
organization’s financial planning by controlling budget values
rather than budget numbers. The guide addresses the issue of actual
fiscal conditions by creating policies that safeguard an
organization’s real fiscal health.

The Policy Governance model is based on the functions rather
than the structure of a governing board. It outlines commonsense
principles about governing that fit together into an entire system.
The practices of the Policy Governance board, which are consistent
with the principles, allow it to control without meddling, focus on
long-term organizational outputs, powerfully delegate to a CEO and
staff, and discharge its fiduciary responsibility in a visionary,
strategic manner. Because the model is a total system, the Carver
Policy Governance Guide series offers boards a complete set of
principles for fulfilling their various obligations.

Tabela de Conteúdo

Policy Governance in a Nutshell 1

Governing Financial Issues 5

Policy Control of Actual Financial Condition and Activities 11

Boundary-Setting Works for Financial Governance 23

Conclusion 24

About the Authors 25

Sobre o autor

John Carver is internationally known as the creator of the
breakthrough in board leadership called the Policy Governance model
and is the best-selling author of Boards That Make a
Difference (1990, 1997, 2006). He is co-editor (with his wife,
Miriam Carver) of the bimonthly periodical Board Leadership,
author of over 180 articles published in nine countries, and author
or co-author of six books. For over thirty years, he has worked
internationally with governing boards, his principal practice being
in the United States and Canada. Dr. Carver is an editorial review
board member of Corporate Governance: An International
Review, adjunct professor in the University of Georgia
Institute for Nonprofit Organizations, and formerly adjunct
professor in York University’s Schulich School of Business.

Miriam Carver is a Policy Governance author and
consultant. She has authored or co-authored over forty articles on
the Policy Governance model and co-authored three books, including
Reinventing Your Board and The Board Member’s
Playbook. She has worked with the boards of nonprofit,
corporate, governmental, and cooperative organizations on four
continents. Ms. Carver is the co-editor of the bimonthly periodical
Board Leadership and, with John Carver, trains consultants
in the theory and implementation of Policy Governance in the Policy
Governance Academy.