Tag: procedure

Managing Church Finances: Counting Offerings

Belinda Whitfield, Certfied Public Accountant | INTERNAL CONTROLS

MANAGING CHURCH FINANCES: COUNTING OFFERINGS Internal controls need to be in place for managing the collection, counting offerings for worship services and Sunday School. Do remember that these procedures or […]

Managing Church Finances: Collecting Offerings

Belinda Whitfield, Certfied Public Accountant | INTERNAL CONTROLS

MANAGING CHURCH FINANCES: COLLECTING OFFERINGS We are on to another area of systems of internal controls for managing church finances. Let’s focus now on the collecting offerings. This function is […]

Managing Church Finances: Choosing Ushers Wisely

Belinda Whitfield, Certfied Public Accountant | INTERNAL CONTROLS

MANAGING CHURCH FINANCES: CHOOSING USHERS WISELY Choose Ushers Wisely – Here are tips on screening, selecting and training ushers on handling money. Your ushers are at the heart of the internal […]

Managing Church Finances: Envelope Tampering

Belinda Whitfield, Certfied Public Accountant | INTERNAL CONTROLS

In looking at systems of internal control needed in the handling and managing church finances, we need to examine the control measures needed during the actual collection other of the […]

Managing Church Finances: Church Accounting Guidelines

Belinda Whitfield, Certfied Public Accountant | INTERNAL CONTROLS

Let’s look at how we can set-up church accounting guidelines for handling of the church finances. In the accounting world we refer to this as internal controls. One very common and […]