Good financial health is dependent on accuracy and experience. A trained and qualified bookkeeper ensures that you have an expert who can make accurate entries, understand and comply with all local and federal regulations, and is able to report accurately.
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.
The cost of having someone on staff for bookkeeping in a small church often means combining the role with another role to make the job enticing enough. For other churches, it means hiring someone part-time who may not have a great deal of experience. Yet, for many others, it means asking a volunteer treasurer to maintain the accounting. Hiring someone who is trained and does bookkeeping for many churches means they can give you higher quality work at an affordable price.
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These responsibilities, however, vary from church to church depending on their job description or as guided by their bylaws.
The problem is that not only the Pastor but also the kind-hearted volunteer may be able to set up and maintain proper accounting systems. If this happens, you may end up with inefficient church bookkeeping.
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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.