Tax & Payroll Support
Support Designed for Churches – One-Year Subscription
Researching clergy issues on your own takes time and can leave you wondering if you’ve got the right answer. Turn to Clergy Financial Resources to save time while getting the correct answers. When you need an answer, our support staff is ready to find the right answers quickly with our annual support service. Through Benefit and Payroll Support, you’ll have access to unlimited phone and electronic support provided by a dedicated team of professional advisors with years of experience.
Reasons Churches Get Involved In Legal Disputes
Reasons Churches Get Involved In Legal Disputes Risk management is important to all organizations, including churches. While there is no way for a church to protect itself from all legal risks, church leaders are well advised to be familiar with common reasons churches get into lawsuits, and to take reasonable precautions. This article provides awareness…
How Should Churches Handle Legal Issues?
How Should Churches Handle Legal Issues? The last thing church leaders want to invest their time and energy into is responding to legal issues. How should church leaders respond when potential legal issues arise? Of course, it depends greatly on the nature of the issue. Here are some practical preliminary questions to ask, and steps…
Bookkeeping Designed for Churches
Do you find yourself spending more time and effort on daily accounting tasks and software issues rather than on making important decisions to run your church? Handling your own bookkeeping can quickly take over, letting other responsibilities fall through the cracks. Let Clergy Financial Resources help you get back on track by managing your bookkeeping…
10 Reasons to Outsource Church Bookkeeping
10 Reasons to Outsource Church Bookkeeping Managing church finances can be a daunting task even under the most favorable circumstances. Factor in complex tax reports, bank reconciliations, and ever-changing IRS and state guidelines, and you can guarantee church staff is overspending valuable time on workarounds for processes that could be intuitively streamlined. With Clergy Financial…
Can a church have different PTO policies for job categories?
Can a church have different PTO policies for job categories? Employers can generally offer different PTO benefits to different employees as long as there is a valid and non-discriminatory business reason for doing so. We would recommend mentioning your policy variations in your employee handbook to be clear on the subject. With that said, it…
Can the church pay student loans tax-free?
Can the church pay student loans tax-free? The Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”) provides a way for churches to provide both tuition, books, supplies, and student loan payments tax-free through January 1, 2026. The Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”) of IRC Section 127 allows churches to reimburse up to $5,250 per employee, per…
2022 Church & Clergy Tax Guide
2022 Church & Clergy Tax Guide – Pre-Orders Today! The expected release date is Jan 31st, 2022 Find comprehensive help understanding United States tax laws as they relate to pastors and churches with Richard Hammar’s 2022 Church & Clergy Tax Guide. Tax law in general is highly complex and ever changing. Add to that the many unique rules…
Online W-2 and 1099 Filing for Churches
Start Filing W-2 and 1099 Forms today! Online W-2 and 1099 Filing for Churches The W-2 Form is probably one of the most common tax forms used by churches today, as every employee must receive one prior to filing their income taxes out and every employer must produce them. The mere mention of filing a…
QuickBooks for Nonprofits & Churches: A Step-By-Step Guide to the Pro, Premier, and Nonprofit Versions
Just Released! Is your small nonprofit or house of worship trying to convert to QuickBooks but you are frustrated that it is too hard to learn? Could you use a hand setting up the files? As the treasurer or bookkeeper for a small nonprofit or church is the bookkeeping taking too much time? Need a QuickBooks manual?
Lisa London is a CPA and top-selling author with decades of experience who has helped organizations reduce their accounting time dramatically. With step-by-step instructions and hundreds of illustrations, you will learn how to:
• design a nonprofit chart of accounts that gives you the reports you need,
• import customers/donors and vendors,
• track grants and programs,
• receive donations, invoice donors, and send acknowledgments,
• pay bills and handle payroll,
• utilized bank and credit card feeds to save time,
• design reports and set up budgets,
• run month-end and year-end reports,
• handle fundraisers, mortgages, reserve accounts,
• using Projects and Locations in QBO,
• and so much more.
Join the tens of thousands of organizations who have saved time and money with The Accountant Beside You.
The books are written for non-accountants to understand the basics of nonprofit accounting with step-by-step instructions, loads of illustrations, and no confusing jargon. This is not QuickBooks for Dummies; it is real detailed instructions written in nonprofit language.
QuickBooks for Nonprofits and Churches-A Step-By-Step Guide to the Pro, Premier, & Nonprofit Versions covers the latest 2020 QuickBooks release. Both books have updated and expanded the information in the previous Accountant Beside You books, QuickBooks for Churches & Other Religious Organizations, Using QuickBooks for Nonprofit Organizations, Associations, & Clubs, and Using QuickBooks Online for Small Nonprofits and Churches.