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Why Every Church Should Show a Year-End Financial Report

By Filings on Thu, 12/09/21
Church & Ministry
Church Finance
Year in Review
Ministry Leadership

“A year-end report is a celebration of impact that answers the question, ‘How did God allow us to participate with Him in the past year?’ Who wouldn’t want to communicate that with their church?” - Lifeway

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Craig Toliver

New3 reports

Thu, 12/09/21
  • Balance sheet
  • Income and expense
  • Expense to budget

Quarterly

Ask for it

I heard the Seattle guy was paid $ 650K per year

https://jubileecast.com/articles/12088/20141124/mark-driscolls-salary-f…

egregious!!

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Rob Fall

NewHSBC hands out

Fri, 12/10/21

an accounting of funds each quarter and an annual report at the annual meeting. It helps that over the years we may not have had any plumbers in the membership but we’ve had two or three CPAs.

Hoping to shed more light than heat..

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dcbii

NewRob Fall wrote:

Mon, 12/13/21

[Rob Fall]

[HSBC hands out] an accounting of funds each quarter and an annual report at the annual meeting.

That sounds very similar to what we do at my current church and previous churches I have attended. If a church is committed to a congregational form of church government, I would expect that to be the norm.

Dave Barnhart

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