There is no one church that is the same. Every church has different needs. This is due to its size, available volunteers, resources, and staffing capabilities. Atlanta Church Bookkeeping LLC offers many options that can help churches manage their financial systems, or even assist them in helping with existing ones. Below are four possible service options. We can customize one for you.
Your church’s leadership team and administrative staff will be able to focus on the church’s mission, not on the church’s bookkeeping.
Our non-profit tax advisers are experienced in working with churches and synagogues to minimize taxes and preserve tax exempt status.
Why not outsource? Outsourcing a bookkeeper for small to medium-sized churches can improve expertise and accuracy, reduce bookkeeping costs, and add a missing link in internal control. Let's look at each one.
Many churches and non-profits struggle to survive on a limited budget. Outsourcing financial services saves nonprofits valuable time, stress, as well as valuable resources. Your time spent managing the finances is time you could spend growing your donor base, expanding your organisation, or helping those in greatest need.
The Pastor may not consider hiring an "experienced" bookkeeper as a top priority. The Pastor may do the bookkeeping himself or hire a "financial" or organizational member to handle it and turn it over.
This is a great way to avoid this mistake in church bookkeeping. Take the time to review each person that you are paying for a church service and use the IRS guidelines link in the Misclassification article to determine if they should classified as an employee, with proper payroll tax matching and withholding.
The biblical pattern shows without question that the pastor should be involved in the oversight of the church's finances, however, Scripture also prescribes the attitude and actions of the pastor to avoid disqualification of influence and trust.
In a non-profit organization, such as a church, the board is the bearer of this fiduciary responsibility and therefore should properly oversee all operations, including finances, to protect the members of the church.
How To Manage Church Records
Identify The Church Records That You're Going To Manage. Based on your local state laws you will need to figure out what records are imperative to keep. ...
Implement A Retention Schedule. ...
Establish Retention And Destruction Policies.