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Measuring of Social Outcomes & Impact: Financial Perspective

Quantify social impact and financial value. Master frameworks to measure effectiveness and drive sustainable change in any organization.

Created bySamuel Angelino Sabapathy Kulendran
BeginnerUpdated Sep 12, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleUnderstand the background to measuring social outcomes and impact (effectiveness).
  • check_circleDistinguish between efficiency and effectiveness measures.
  • check_circleAnalyse the benefits and challenges of measuring effectiveness.
  • check_circleIdentify the characteristics of high-performing organisations.
  • check_circleExplore the role of the finance function in the measurement process and the upskilling required for this process.

About This Course

There is a growing interest in the measurement of social impacts (effectiveness) across the non-profit sector. In this course we shall see effectiveness as how close we are to reaching our mission or purpose. Measuring is important as it helps us understand the program, exercise control, and then make improvement.

Non-profit organisations exist to serve a higher purpose. Hence we need to find out if we are making a difference in the community we serve. Is anyone better off as a result of our blood, sweat and tears? In other words, is our strategy achieving its purpose? We need a pragmatic approach to quantify our success. Hence, we shall explore various measurement frameworks and their limitations.

So where does this leave finance professionals? With funding challenges coming to the fore there has not been a better time than this for finance professionals. Finance teams have for long been the managers of data, reporting and setting performance metrics. They have a better view of the organisation, its risks and opportunities. They are best placed to partner with programs and research teams and leverage their skills to add rigour to the measurement process.

This course will place you in a better position to work alongside program teams to leverage your skills to measure social outcomes.

Course Content

15 activities • 15 videos • duration: 1h 56m

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Session 1 - Introduction1 videos • 2 min
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Background to Measurement1 videos • 22 min
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Overview of Measurement Frameworks1 videos • 1 min
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MERI1 videos • 9 min
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Program Logic1 videos • 7 min
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TOC1 videos • 11 min
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SAA1 videos • 10 min
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GRI1 videos • 4 min
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SROI1 videos • 11 min
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MSC1 videos • 10 min
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Application of Measurement1 videos • 9 min
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Funder Capacity and Measurement1 videos • 7 min
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Challenges to Measurement1 videos • 4 min
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Role of Finance1 videos • 2 min
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Conclusion1 videos • 2 min

Your Instructor

Samuel Angelino Sabapathy Kulendran

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Angelino has over 30 years experience in finance and accounting beginning with KPMG. Thereafter he went onto work in private, non-profits and government sectors. A major part of his tenure was dedicated to working for non-profit organisations, in both developing countries and developed countries. As a result, Angelino has broad view of the programming challenges that exist at both end of the spectrum and specifically how finance function is better placed to bridge the gap that exist between programming and financial planning. Angelino is passionate about building capacity of finance professionals working in, and new to, the non-profit sector. Angelino is a fellow of CPA Australia and CIMA (UK), completed examinations of ACCA (UK), holds a recognised MBA, and a trainer/assessor certification.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

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