FT Walton 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.
Bookkeeping mistakes in churches are inevitable. However, you can take steps to prevent them from happening.
Even if a member of your congregation is a nonprofit accountant or bookkeeper, engaging a specialist to help with your church’s bookkeeping will likely be a sizable investment. We encourage you to make this investment a priority. Doing so can benefit your church in three ways:
Churches can be and do receive severe penalties for paying workers with 1099s to whom they are not employees.
The church's administrative and leadership staff can focus on its mission rather than on bookkeeping.
To avoid making a mistake in church bookkeeping, you should carefully examine each person who is being paid for a service. The IRS guidelines (link to the Misclassification article), will help you determine whether they should be classified either as an employee with proper payroll tax withholding and matching, or as an independent contractor.
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. FT Walton Church Bookkeeping LLC, however, will help you grow.
Churches and religious nonprofits must maintain highly accurate accounting and bookkeeping records in order to maintain their nonprofit status, budget accurately, and provide reporting to government entities and their parishoners or members.
Bookkeepers maintain the financial records of the church that includes income and expense records. They are supposed to keep records of the dates and amount of every transaction of the church.
Churches And Transparency
The standards of the Evangelical Council on Financial Accountability require that member organizations provide audited financial statements on request.
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.