Complex new forms focus less on finances, more on how groups operate and prevent corruption.

By Christopher K. Hepp

"The form is going to prod organizations to do the right thing," said Eric Fraint, president of Your Part-Time Controller, a Cherry Hill firm that provides financial services to nonprofits.

Elizabeth F. Pilacik, chair of nonprofit and tax-exempt services for the accounting firm of Asher & Co. Ltd., made the same point at a seminar last week on the new 990, sponsored by LaSalle University's Nonprofit Center.