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Housing Allowance should only be recorded on the W-2 in Box 14 and labeled "Housing Allowance". It should not be included as Wages in Box 1 or Social Security Wages Box 3 or Medicare Wages Tips Box 7 or State Wages Box 16. This also applies when filing the quarterly 941.

Enter the invoice in Maintain Open Invoices as usual for the invoice amount due. Then make the following entries: credit cash account debit rent expense account for full rent amount credit rent expense account for the building repair (enter a brief description in the "Line Description" so you'll hav...

I worked for a church avg attendance of 1100 with no problems using PowerChurch. If memory serves me I recall reading something several years ago that said 10,000+ profiles.

You can also scan documents to replace the paper documents with an electronic version. This can be a time comsuming task so I would do it over a period of time. After the conversion is complete, I would keep a backup in the office and a couple offsite in a safe deposit box. I also use IRS Publicatio...

What PC version are you running? Version 10.4 has the option to print a balance sheet to include unposted transactions. This only includes unposted transactions in the Fund Accounting module. If you have payables/receivables not yet posted, they would not be included in the balance sheet.

I need to accrue wages for this week's payroll but need some direction. Has anyone ever done this in PowerChurch? If wages are accrued by keying the data in the payroll module, then "printing" a check, when the live check is issued, wouldn't the wage expense, etc be overstated? Another thought is th...

Our church uses that type of check for the missions account. The check is handwritten and then entered as a manual check. Once the 3-up checks are used up we will then go to the computer check with stub...we didn't just want to "throw" them away.

The expense accounts can be set up to use the 3 different funds. You would do this from the Fund Accounting module in Maintain Chart of Accounts. Enter the expense account number you want to change and then select the "Add Acct to Fund" button. You should then select the fund you want to add ie: Gen...

Do you have more than one (1) checking account set up in PowerChurch? Has the Balance Sheet ever reflected a correct total for checking? I would start by pulling a journal report and a check register from the Fund Accounting module. The journal report will list all the transactions from AP/PR/GE and...

I've downloaded the latest maint release and I don't get blank lines for the visitors when I print the "Weekly Format". Is there something I'm missing?

The contributor should receive full credit for the contribution. We book the fee as a "Online Fees Expense". This is what one of our entries would look like: Contributor receives full credit Debit: Cash (checking account) - full contribution amount Credit: Income Account - full contribution amount D...

We have a similar situation at our church. Yes you would code them as 3. The book discusses this on page 83 (chapter 4: Membership). You can also find the same info using the Help feature in PowerChurch.

If you print the Attendance Register form in a weekly format, the Visitor lines are printed below the names of those registered.

I need some guidance as to how I should record a non-cash contribution (vehicle) donated in July. The church recognized the contribution with IRS form 1098-C and a letter sent to the donor that acknowledged the contribution but did not assign the value as per IRS. In August the church sold the vehic...

You can print a Check Register for a specific period and include reconciled & unreconciled items. This should satisfy the auditor.