Mail Archive of the old Santa Clara Valley Lutheran Parish

Subject: Followup materials to Profile discussion

Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 21:21:01 -0700

From: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>

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From: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Followup materials to Profile discussion
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Hi -

During today's discussion, we talked about some helpful
documents for folks dealing with congregations' financial
matters.  These three are in my opinion very helpful:

Guidelines for congregational treasurers:
http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository%/Congregational_Treasurers_Financial_And_Accounting_Guide.pdf

On records retention:
http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/Congregation_Retention_Schedule.pdf

Some additional finance-related best practices appear in
https://www.churchmutual.com/media/safetyResources/files/crime.pdf



Also, a short, lucid discussion of the difference between operating and
non-operating income and expenses, with examples, is at
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/difference-between-operating-nonoperating-expenses-39827.html

Randy