While you focus on getting to know your community and growing your organization, we'll work to make the accounting function easy and ensure that your financial records are maintained correctly and accurately.
Atlanta Church Bookkeeping LLC can help prevent fraud and lower other financial risks that can potentially impact your nonprofit or church. The news is filled with stories of misused funds from charities and other 501c3 groups. We will keep a keen set of eyes on your books to help protect your organization.
We offer our clients an in depth knowledge of the unique challenges facing religious organizations today. We spend many hours every year continuing to stay abreast of the new regulations and current tax laws that will affect our non-profit clients including churches, synagogues, mosques, church schools, church daycares and other religious-based organizations.
It is not a priority for them to hire a "experienced bookkeeper". The Pastor can either do the bookkeeping or corral a member who has some organizational or financial skills and then turns it over.
It is inevitable that church bookkeeping errors will occur. But, there are steps you can take to stop them.
We believe that everyone should have the ability to make sound financial decisions. Although we don't have every financial product or company on the site, we are proud to say that our guidance, information, and tools are impartial, independent, simple, and completely free.
Events Income We are currently trying to correct our chart of account. Our tithes & offerings are also non-profit revenue.
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.)