By reconciling your accounting with your bank and credit card statements, you will find errors such as duplicates, missing transactions, bank errors on rare occasions, and amount discrepancies.
Our clients receive a deep understanding of the unique challenges that religious organizations face today. We invest many hours each year learning about the current tax laws and new regulations that will affect non-profit clients such as churches, synagogues or mosques, school for religious studies, daycares for children, and other religious-based groups.
We believe that listening is the key to building a client relationship based on trust and respect. We aim to help you build your faith organization and be more successful by offering financial guidance, leadership and advice.
Sometimes congregations find themselves stuck with bookkeeping issues or need to outsource their bookkeeping. Atlanta Church Bookkeeping LLC offers bookkeeping services that are specifically tailored for churches.
We believe everyone should be empowered to make informed financial decisions. We are proud to share the knowledge we have, even though we don't offer every financial product and company available, but we do provide objective and independent information and tools that are simple and easy to use.
While you're focusing your efforts on growing your organization and getting to know your neighbors, we'll help make accounting simple and ensure that financial records are kept accurate and correct.
Even if a member of your congregation is a nonprofit accountant or bookkeeper, engaging a specialist to help with your church’s bookkeeping will likely be a sizable investment. We encourage you to make this investment a priority. Doing so can benefit your church in three ways:
Working in church accounting, you share the same responsibilities as an accountant in any other organization. You record expenses, track contributions made by the congregation, and monitor spending on various programs. Your duties center around bookkeeping, documenting and controlling finances for a church.
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.
Common Church Budget Categories
Personnel (salaries, benefits, etc.)
Administration (operating expenses)
Facilities and Equipment (utilities, insurance on property, maintenance)
Outreach (missions, evangelism, social events, etc.)