Financial transparency in non-governmental organizations

The increase in the number of non-governmental organizations, growing of these organizations day by day and empowering in terms of finance has resulted in increasing importance of these organizations in society. Therefore, there has arised the demand of transparency in non-governmental organization in terms of both activities and finance. Non-governmental organizations that desire to collect money from their stakeholders in order to finance their organized activities are in a huge and intense competition today. Also the stakeholders that want to financially contribute to these organizations need to get complete, accurate, timely and reliable information about these organizations. This research has analyzed the concepts of financial transparency and non-governmental organizations in details and investigated 73 non-governmental organizations in Turkey in terms of whether or not financial transparency?s being provided through determined transparency indicators.