QuickBooks for Churches & Other Religious Organizations (The Accountant Beside You)

Lisa London's 5 star rated book has been expanded to include:
• Tracking Payroll In-House
• Tracking Member Accounts for Mission Trips, etc.
• Recording Mortgages
• and so much more!
Bookkeeping for churches can be quite different than for-profit businesses, or even non-profit organizations. Most books and guides available today are focused on either QuickBooks or church accounting alone, but not both. QuickBooks for Churches and Other Religious Organizations is the only QuickBooks guidebook written especially for churches.
In her book, London walks readers through QuickBooks for churches from start to finish, complete with examples, terminology, and everything a busy church administrator or bookkeeper needs to know. The book is written for beginner and advanced church bookkeepers alike, in a friendly and easy-to-understand style.
This church accounting guide to QuickBooks provides step-by-step instructions on how to set up or improve QuickBooks for your house of worship. The book also provides best practices and recommended procedures and internal controls to ensure sound church accounting.

• Step-by-step instructions on how to set up QuickBooks and utilize it more efficiently for your house of worship
• Valuable tips on how to make QuickBooks work better for churches, both large and small
• Everything you need to know to implement controls and procedures to ensure that your church's money is always protected
• New insight and recommended procedures to ensure sound church accounting
• Numerous illustrative screenshoots and time-saving shortcuts
• Clear and concise style

I have been a church treasurer for more than 8 years and purchased this book to help "grow" our church QB system to automate reports and information required by our diocese and to track some nuanced restricted/unrestricted gifts. I found it helpful as a reference for best practices that go beyond Quickbooks accounting AND as a "how-to" manual with straightforward, step-by-step instructions to set up the chart of accounts, the item list and other specific QB tools. I'd recommend this as an office reference for churches of all sizes and accounting systems.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for church and non-profit application of QuickBooks, July 7, 2014
By Douglas J. Haas "Always Something Different" (PA USA) Verified Purchase

QuickBooks was not made for churches, it was made for businesses. So many functions have business names that are opposite of how a church would look at it. Such as; church members are customers, member donations are called sales receipts, ect. So it is great that this book was written specifically for the church/non-profit application. I don't think I would have been able to work it out in my head without the book. Another book I bought just didn't make any sense. And it is well written with lots of screen pictures.