Atlanta Church Bookkeeping LLC will help to protect your church and prevent fraud. Many stories have been reported about misappropriation of funds from charities and other non-501c3 groups. To protect your organization, we'll keep an eye on it.
You will discover errors like duplicates or missing transactions, bank errors on rare occasions and amount discrepancies by reconciling your accounts with your bank, credit card, and bank statements.
You should be aware that your church's growth will also increase the cost. A lot of features that go beyond basic church management or accounting also come with an additional cost. Atlanta Church Bookkeeping LLC, however, will help you grow.
If you reconcile your bank and card statements with your accounting, you can identify errors like duplicates, missing transactions or bank errors on rare occasions.
We believe that everyone should be able make financial decisions with confidence. Our site does not feature every company or product on the financial market. However, we are proud of the fact that the advice we provide, the information we provide, and the tools and resources we create are objective, independent and straightforward.
Churches can be and do receive severe penalties for paying workers with 1099s to whom they are not employees.
We believe that listening is the foundation of a lasting client relationship built on trust and respect. Our goal is to provide financial leadership, guidance and advice that you can really use to help you grow your religious organization and become more successful.
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.