For a church to be financially healthy, accuracy and expertise are essential. A qualified and trained bookkeeper is an expert who understands the best way to enter, complies with federal and local requirements, and makes sure your reporting is accurate.
Atlanta Church Bookkeeping LLC offers clients the ability to analyze complex clergy tax laws, church payroll, and other HR issues. Our specialists will help clients keep up to date with tax news, developments, trends and other specialties.
Congregants will be more likely to trust you if they know their donations and tithes were being used properly. Congregants will donate more if they trust that the donations are being used in a responsible manner.
A check register is not reliable for church bookkeeping.
These responsibilities may vary from church-to-church depending on the job description or according to their bylaws.
These responsibilities will vary from one church or another depending on the person's job description and how their bylaws guide them.
No two churches are the same. The needs of each church vary due to size, availability of volunteers, resources, and staffing abilities. Atlanta Church Bookkeeping LLC offers several options to help churches with exactly what they need from managing their financial system to coming alongside and helping the one that is in place. Here are four service options. You can contact us to have one customized for your congregation:
Diocesan Canons state that treasurers and other officers of a church parish, mission or other institution be “bonded” according to Episcopal Church Canons. Episcopal Church Canons require that treasurers be “adequately bonded.”
seven years
Financial Records are traditionally kept for seven years. This relates to the laws of tax audits and the number of years back the IRS is allowed to look when determining an organization's tax liability.
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.