If you find your church’s chart of accounts getting longer and longer, perhaps you need Classes. Classes will replace your length with some width. Instead of just going North and South, your reports will go East and West. This is what I explore in this post.
While working with the Journey Community Church in De Pere, WI, I noticed that they have an interesting way of allocating their offering to fund each budget. This was such a clever idea that could help churches struggling to get on top of their finances so I thought I’d share it.
If you missed out last night, Sheri Meister and I held the 2022 first quarter webinar. Our focus was on taking a fresh look at the Balance Sheet which would be perfect timing if your church is preparing for the annual audit.
This is pretty nerdy, but few things motivate me more than a good-looking spreadsheet. In fact, I created two spreadsheets (linked in the post) that helped me lose weight and catch up on email. If a spreadsheet has great formatting, I’m more likely to keep it up to date as well as look at it closely. For me, Conditional Formatting has been a blessing in making it easy to make my spreadsheets more attractive and informative.
Last night Sheri and I held a webinar on QuickBooks and your church. We went over why churches should consider QuickBooks, where to get it cheap, and how to set it up for a church. We also went over how to use it to manage donations and use it’s budget tool. We had great participation that really added to it.
QuickBooks can be a pain to use for budgeting. Even the tool is hidden away. In the church world, budgets are rarely optional. In this post I go over setting up a budget and the importance of setting up a secondary budget to make year-end projections.
If your church is good with PowerPoint but not great with videos, try making your videos with PowerPoint. Especially with so much going online and on Facebook, this is worth a try.
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