If your church does not require a full-service bookkeeping package like the ones Bellwether offers, we have a sister company that serves those smaller congregations. GoodBooks helps pastors and their staff/volunteers learn how to…
Bellwether CEO, Lee Ann Crockett, presented another wonderful webinar this week. This time she tackled a sample pastor tax return for the current tax year. Since pastors are dual-status tax payers, their taxes can get…
Bellwether CEO, Lee Ann Crockett, typically provides at least one free of charge webinar each year to help churches understand any changes to the tax code as it relates to churches/nonprofits and to pastors. This…
It is not unusual for pastors and other church staff to be reimbursed for work-related expenses such as mileage, conference travel expenses, books or other resources, and more. A healthy church has a reimbursement policy…
Unrelated Business Income – Part 1 I was privileged to attend a webinar where Mike Batts, CPA presented great information about the Unrelated Business Income issue that non-profits must deal with. So, what…
Well Done Good and Faithful Servant When you think of stewardship, what comes to mind? For your church, it is probably thinking about using the resources – financial, human and material – well and to…
Lee Ann Crockett of Good Books recently joined the Where Accountants Go podcast to share a little about her journey. Here’s a sneak peek: “Lee Ann actually started as a Liberal Arts major, but while…
I have been “preaching” about working smarter not harder for several years now. To me, this means implementing automated processes when possible to ensure the mundane administrative tasks are taken care of as efficiently, securely…
GoodBooks works entirely remotely and so we’ve had years of experience now doing so. I wanted to mention here some of the ways that we simplify and streamline accounting to do so: Set up every…
Almost every organization has asked us at one time or another, “how long do we have to keep our documents?” Proper maintenance of your historical records and documents is very important to protect…
