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I have little to no accounting experience but I am trying to handle the accounting for our church. We use PC Version 8.5. We recently opened a money market and I want to transfer the money from checking to the money market and keep track of the balance in the MM separately from the Checking Account....

I tried this and my liabilities accounts are not in the list I have to choose from - ???

So if that is the case, I can not enter these donations through the Contribution Module and they will not go on the Contribution Record for the member's tax records.

Correct?

So basically - I just go in and change the budget amount if it is amended and keep back up information filed away somewhere?

Would I use this same procedure to processing donations to mission offerings - for example, Kathleen Mallory Offering is in September. Members will make donations specifically for this offering and the church will then write one check. Isn't this basically the same thing? Another question comes to m...

We have adopted a budget but have a quarterly review where revisions can be made - is there a way to reflect these amendments to the budget without just changing the budget amount?

I am using an older version of PC - Version 8 and have a need for setting up pass through contributions. Example, love offering taken and check issued. Actually the church added to the check to "round up". I am anticipating more of this in the future. How do I handle these?

First, I have LITTLE Accounting background but I am doing the best I can in our new church plant until the Lord sends someone else. We are using an older version of PC (8.5) but so far, in our simple environment, it is working well. This month our landlord told us to reduce our rent by the cost of s...