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.
When someone donates a noncash gift (stock, grain, cattle, piano, etc), the church needs to give them a receipt for tax purposes. The information on that receipt needs to be in accordance with IRS guidelines as well as be helpful to the donor. I’ll guide you through this.
Giving statements don’t have to be an administrative task meant to guilt members about their pledge. Instead, they are an opportunity to thank donors and share with them how the LORD is using their giving to change lives.
Why would a pastor want to see the giving records for their church? Most of the time they feel like they need to see the records in order to lead better…not because their curious or slick.
Even in the accounting world, looks matter…at least when it comes to spreadsheets. How you format your spreadsheets can help people see what’s important and see that your spreadsheet is important.
