FT Walton Church Bookkeeping Llc
You may need more functionality in your church than QuickBooks Premier Plus. Particularly, your church will need to manage volunteers and events and enable online giving.
FT Walton Church Bookkeeping LLC is proud to offer the best in affordable nonprofit and church accounting in Atlanta and throughout the state of Georgia. We understand that nonprofits are an integral part of the community. They play an essential role in building strong communities. Our team helps them thrive, grow, and succeed. Outsourcing your church or nonprofits accounting offers endless benefits. Please contact us and tell us on we can assist your church or nonprofit. We are always here to help.
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You may need more functionality in your church than QuickBooks Premier Plus. Particularly, your church will need to manage volunteers and events and enable online giving.
The problem is that neither the Pastor nor the good hearted volunteer may know how to set up and maintain a proper accounting system, so you end up with an ineffective church bookkeeping system...and may not even realize it...until you have bills not being paid, or doubled paid...or financial records that nobody can make sense of...or make proper financial decisions with.
The majority of labor and employment laws applicable to churches are the same as those that apply to "for-profit" organisations. These include the guidelines for classifying workers as employees or independent contractors.
Churches can be and do receive severe penalties for paying workers with 1099s to whom they are not employees.
Our team of not-for profits tax advisers has many years experience working with churches, synagogues or other faith-based organizations in order to minimize their taxes, protect their tax exempt status, and help them avoid tax.
The IRS may begin a church tax inquiry only if an appropriate high-level Treasury official reasonably believes, based on a written statement of the facts and circumstances, that the organization: (a) may not qualify for the exemption; or (b) may not be paying tax on unrelated business or other taxable activity.
81% of church revenue came from individual donations. 34% of congregations have endowments, which constituted on average 4% of their revenue. Only 2% of churches received revenue from government grants; 12% received finance from non-government grants.
Churches And Transparency
The standards of the Evangelical Council on Financial Accountability require that member organizations provide audited financial statements on request.
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.