preview

Non-Profit Analysis

Decent Essays

The first aspect in determining a financial conclusion is whether or not a event is staged for profit of non-profit reasons. Since the 1980's, those responsible for organising the Olympic games have made definitely small profits in relation to operating budgets. This profit is distributed between the host county's National Olympic Committee (NOC), the IOC, and on small occasions to those responsible for sport facility maintenance. The IOC is largely responsible for revenue generated by marketing rights (brand sponsors, television rights, media coverage), which they redistribute to international sports federations represented at the games. This cycle of internal investment means the Olympic Games is a non-profit event (Catherwood and Van Kirk, …show more content…

By rationale a multi-sport event requires numerous facilities to cater each sporting requirement, given the rarity for a single city or region to accommodate permanent or temporary facilities (Davies, 2006). On the whole, mono-sport events are hosted in existing facilities although counter to that statement is large-scale mono-event such as FIFA Football World Cup, thus responsibilities are attributed to organising committees. Taking this division between multi-sports and mono-sports it is easy to understand how management of multi-sports is more difficult due to external requirements, be that: organising specialists, sporting bodies, increased staffing costs and budget management throughout infrastructure (Downward, Dawson and Dejonghe, 2009)..

A key role financial organisation plays for the duration of both planning and development stages, is to produce and relay information to management, shareholders, and stakeholders showing in monetary values the economic stability of business resources (Noll and Zimbalist, 1997). These responsibilities can be categorised as: overseeing financial risk, protecting the integrity of company finances, motivating managers to establish competitive value, attracting money into company projects, future proof planning and controlling performance improvement (Bonham and Langdon,

Get Access