Big Picture Financial Management: Four Ways to Strengthen Your Ministry
July 15, 2015 10:22 pm Leave your thoughtsBeing responsible for the accounting and financial operations of a ministry is no small task.
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Five Ways to Make an Audit Easier
July 14, 2015 8:16 pm Leave your thoughtsWe’ve put together five tips to help make an audit less painful and provide you with maximum benefit.
Managing Budgets Never Ends
July 14, 2015 8:10 pm Leave your thoughtsWe budget so that we can better manage our church’s operations. To effectively manage a budget, it should never be far from our minds.
“Tax-Exempt” Doesn’t Erase All Tax Issues
July 14, 2015 8:04 pm Leave your thoughtsWhile churches are tax-exempt organizations by law, local congregations are still affected by many tax issues. These include unrelated business income tax (UBIT), the correct classification of independent contractors, ministerial compensation, and other common tax concerns.
Corporate Credit Cards and Your Church: Important Considerations and Guidelines
July 14, 2015 5:48 pm Leave your thoughtsCorporate credit cards can be very useful for church staff, but they need to be used properly, with adequate documentation provided on time.
Five Questions to Ask About Your Organizational Philosophies
July 2, 2015 2:59 pm Leave your thoughtsWhether you are new to your organization or have been there many years, it is important to step back periodically and examine existing organizational philosophies to determine whether they are helping or hindering your ministry’s leadership and objectives.
Not-for-Profit Financial Reporting 3.0: New FASB Exposure Draft
April 24, 2015 8:20 pm Leave your thoughtsEven with the challenge of learning a new framework and educating others, this may be an update to welcome.
New AICPA Not-For-Profit Section to Provide Key Resources
March 24, 2015 10:01 am Leave your thoughtsThe AICPA has created a new Not-For-Profit Member Section designed to provide information and resources to those who work in and for this industry.
Employing the Wisdom of Small Creatures for Big Organizational Change
September 10, 2014 9:45 am Leave your thoughtsRather than thinking of ants and locusts as pests, what if we viewed them as little creatures we can learn and unearth big organizational truths from? After all, Proverbs 30:24 describes ants and locusts as “exceedingly wise.”
Nonprofit Tax UBIT Update: Educational Periodicals
July 3, 2014 1:36 pm Leave your thoughtsLearn how the unrelated business income cost allocation rules of Section 1.512(a)-1(f) of the Income Tax Regulations apply to educational periodicals.