CHURCH FINANCES
The following guides are designed to help you navigate several different areas of church finances and reporting:
- Guide to Church Teller Procedures – information about a teller system and sample forms
- Guide to Disbursement Quota Reform for Charities
- Guide to Completing the T3010
- T3010-1 Registered Charity Information Return
- Guide to Sponsoring a Short Term Mission Trip/Project – information regarding funding short term mission trips to avoid private benevolence, or problems with CRA regarding “out-of-country” expenditures
- Guide for Raising and Disbursing Benevolent Support – to help churches establish policies and procedures to ensure that their benevolent charitable work is within CRA requirements
- Guide to Writing an Investment Policy – The Trustee Act in Ontario (which became effective July 1, 1999) requires that each church invest its funds as would a “prudent investor”. This requires that each church have an investment policy in place.
- The Local Church Audit Guide – a step-by-step procedure for an internal audit conducted by members of the congregation