While you concentrate on your community and building your organization, our team will work with you to simplify the accounting process and make sure that your financial records remain accurate and up-to-date.
Atlanta Church Bookkeeping LLC makes it super simple to get up and running. Our general ledger is perfectly structured and you don't need an accounting to degree to understand.
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.
Churches can be and do receive severe penalties for paying workers with 1099s to whom they are not employees.
Many churches and nonprofits are struggling to make ends meet with their limited resources. Nonprofits can save significant time, stress, money, and valuable resources by outsourcing their financial management. Time spent on books can be time well spent by you, the leader of your nonprofit.
There are ways to avoid making mistakes in church bookkeeping.
It is not possible to keep a church's books in order by maintaining a check registry.
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.