Finance Issues2025-03-04T20:21:05-06:00

Finance Issues

There are so many financial issues for a church!

Effective Benchmarking: Thinking Outside The Box

By |October 4th, 2022|

Comparing key data points against known metrics is a tried-and-true method for assessing financial health for any organization.  In this webinar, we will discuss how to answer key financial health questions in [...]

Assessing Church Financial Health Made Easy

By |May 23rd, 2021|

Assessing Church Financial Health Made Easy—Even if you are not financially inclined So … you’re an XP (or equivalent) and you’re in charge of (among other things) the financial health and operations [...]

Supporting Missions Work

By |April 3rd, 2019|

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Hey Fletch … Our church provides direct support to several international missionaries. What are the issues we should look at to provide this support with the utmost integrity? DRF—There are [...]

Mileage Reimbursements

By |March 27th, 2019|

Hey Fletch … Some of my fellow XPs have a variety of polices regarding mileage reimbursement for staff. I am wondering about best practices regarding this issue. Any help? DRF—Check the current IRS mileage reimbursement rate [...]

Giving to a Short-Term Missions Team

By |March 25th, 2019|

Monday, March 25, 2019 Fletch is back from his research break, writing Predators in the Church Hey Fletch … I’ve been tracking with Dan Busby’s comments in the Hey Fletch column. I know gifts [...]

Gifts for a Needy Person

By |February 26th, 2019|

Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Hey Fletch… We have a widow in our church that is going through serious medical challenges. She has exhausted her financial resources. Several wealthy members of the congregation want to [...]

Mileage Reimbursement for Missionaries

By |February 13th, 2019|

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 Hey Fletch! First off, thank you so much for bringing such an informative and fun workshop to Hawaii. It was such a pleasure to see you and we look forward [...]

Obligations with Donor Designations?

By |January 29th, 2019|

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 Hey Fletch … What are our obligations in handling donor designations? These come either verbally during a church service, on our website, or by text. They can also be formally [...]

Donor Designated Gifts

By |January 15th, 2019|

Tuesday, January 15, 2019 Hey Fletch … I heard that if a donor designates a gift made to our church, we cannot provide the donor with a receipt under the theory that designated gifts [...]

Pay for a Wedding

By |January 11th, 2019|

Friday, January 11, 2019 Hey Fletch … If a pastor performs a funeral or wedding and is paid directly, the pastor gives the check to our church finance office. I then add it to [...]

Tax on a Church Parking Lot?

By |January 5th, 2019|

Saturday, January 5, 2019 Hey Fletch … Do I need to pay unrelated business income tax on my parking lot? I heard a lot of noise about this last fall but what was the [...]

Policies on Appropriate Spending

By |January 4th, 2019|

Friday, January 4, 2019 Hey Fletch … Do you have any policies or procedures which outline appropriate spending? Our SP has a credit card but we haven’t ever put limits on spending. We are [...]

Renting Church Rooms to the School District

By |December 12th, 2018|

Wednesday, December 12, 2018 Hey Fletch … We are in an unusual place. Many times new churches rent or lease space from public school systems. Our county school system is seeking to lease classroom space from us [...]