"Budget Basics: All You Need is Money" with speaker Andrew M. Bursten”

Do financial statements make your eyes glaze over? Do you find it difficult to explain your financial statements to your Board? Join the Arts Council on this exciting journey of presenting small business skills for the arts as we explore the topic “Budget Basics: All You Need is Money,” led by Andrew M. Bursten, CFO of George Mason University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Biography:
Andrew M. Bursten - CFO, George Mason University, College of Visual and Performing Arts

Andrew Busten has been working in nonprofit financial management for nearly 30 years.  Since 2007, he has held the position of Director of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.  This position includes financial and human resources oversight of the Center for the Arts in Fairfax, VA and the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, VA.  He also teachers a finance course in the Arts Management Program at George Mason. 

His previous positions include financial leadership roles either as Chief Financial Officer of Controller at The Washington Opera, Washington Performing Arts Society, Levine School of Music and Special Olympics International, as well as some smaller nonprofit organizations.  He was also part of the finance team at the National Symphony when it merged with the Kennedy Center.  Throughout his career, Andy has managed budgets of all sizes, overseen accounting policies and processes, implemented accounting systems, and administered human resources (including benefits).

Andy is a member of the Institute of Management Accountants, where he is Treasurer of the local chapter.  He has also been Treasurer of other nonprofit organizations, such as Congregation Beth Emeth in Herndon, VA and the Prince Georges Philharmonic in MD.  In his non-financial life, Andy plays the viola in the Reston Community Orchestra in Reston, VA.