QuickBooks: Accounting Software for Small Churches and Nonprofits

See this page for some tips to help you decide which software is the best accounting software for your church.

If you are debating on using QuickBooks here is some information on this off-the-shelf accounting software.

QuickBooks is best for small churches and non-profit organizations with operating budgets of less than $1 million, that have different grants and/or funds that need to be tracked separately, and that have no or small payrolls.



Some of the features with this software is:

• QuickBooks Centers along with icons make it easy to access frequently used functions.
• Ability to track Income and expenses.
• Choose whether you want to password protect it or not.
• Handles bills, payments, and bank reconciliation easily.
• Computes payroll taxes
• Prints Checks
• Compatible with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc)

This is what the experts say about QuickBooks: Premier Nonprofit Edition:

It combines the convenience of QuickBooks with basic nonprofit functionality to provide smaller churches and nonprofits with an easy way to track donations, pledges and annual organization budgets, along with the ability to keep a handle on regular financial information.

This edition of QuickBooks has very helpful features:

• Tracking donors and contributions
• Creating personalized letters and envelopes for donors
• Tracking budgets and finances by program
• Preparing IRS Form 990 or Form 990-EZ
• Creating other reports specifically for non-profits

Tip: On the church accounting forum page, several people have wrote in asking "How To" questions with Quickbooks. Ask your Quickbook questions and comments there.

A must-have resource book! Running QuickBooks in Nonprofits: The Only Comprehensive Guide for Nonprofits Using QuickBooks
Providing information on using QuickBooks to track financial data in nonprofit organizations, this book covers all versions of QuickBooks.

Management of donors, grants, and pledges, and topics such as allocating expenses to programs, handling donor restrictions, and generating the reports needed for donors and tax returns are covered in detail. In addition to easy-to-follow instructions and tons of tips and workarounds, information on using QuickBooks for fundraising is provided.

On a personal note: you need to know some basic accounting terms to understand this book.

QuickBooks Premier - NonProfit Edition
Demonstrate financial accountability to your Board of Directors with the Statement of Financial Income & ExpenseGive your Board an overview of your organization's financial status with the Statement of Financial Income and Expense.

Track donations and pledges. Ready to use templates allow you to easily track pledges and donations

Complete your 990 form with one report.Make it easy for you or your accountant to prepare the IRS Form 990 by letting QuickBooks total and organize all your finances according to IRS requirements. The Statement of Functional Expenses 990 matches the IRS Form 990. Just transfer the totals to the form and you're done.

See program budget status in an instant.Once you've set up your budget, you can compare it to your actual performance with almost no effort--just open the budgets versus actual reports from the Report Center and see where you stand.

QuickBooks Pro 2010
Helps make your business more profitable. New features show you exactly where your business stands and saves you time to focus on your business: organize your finances all in one place; manage and customer, vendor, and employee data; save money-track every dollar in and out; know where your business stands with real-time reports.

www.stress-free-bookkeeping.com QuickBooks tutorial will teach you how to use various features in QuickBooks. Also has a place to ask questions regarding QuickBooks.

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