For a lot of nonprofit leaders, "audit" is a word that arrives with a small jolt of dread, even when nothing is wrong. That reaction usually has less to do with the audit itself and more to do with not knowing, until the request lands, whether your records are ready to hand over. The organizations that move through audit season calmly aren't the ones with nothing to explain. They're the ones who've been keeping their financial house in order all year, so the audit just confir