The nonprofit doesn't tell the supplier how to perform the task. Rather, the nonprofit tells the supplier what results it wants and lets the supplier decide how to accomplish those results. Accounting is one area where outsourcing makes the most sense because it's rarely a core competency. In today's economy, CPAs are in short supply. Nonprofits find it difficult, time-consuming and costly to staff an internal accounting department.
Accounting is a back-office function for many organizations.
This ensures quality in the finance and accounting process and gives you access to world-class technology. An ASP is an organization that remotely hosts a software application and provides access to and use of the application for a recurring fee. Business process outsourcing. Outsourcing by an outside supplier can add strategic value to your nonprofit by creatively examining your nonprofit's business processes and changing how they are performed. This is Internet-based outsourcing that takes advantage of the emerging ASP delivery model.