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I am a consultant and have been asked to create a proposal for installation, training and support for Power Church. I have never used the product but I am very familiar with QuickBooks. How difficult is it to set up a "company file"? How long will it take a novice to to do this? Are there recommened reference materials? Thank you!

rkinzerwest wrote:I am a consultant and have been asked to create a proposal for installation, training and support for Power Church. I have never used the product but I am very familiar with QuickBooks. How difficult is it to set up a "company file"? How long will it take a novice to to do this? Are there recommened reference materials? Thank you!

Powerchurch has no relationship to Quickbooks. Its based on Funds Accounting, which is a cash basis, and has a full chart of accounts that must be setup, both income and expenses. Then all transactions are true double entry accounting transactions, where the user details the accounts that are debited, and credited.

My advice, talk to an accountant familiar with double entry accounting. There are tutorials available as well as video training found here :
https://www.powerchurch.com/training/vi ... .php?id=14
https://www.powerchurch.com/training/vi ... .php?id=15

There are also authorized trainers, who can be found on this page: https://www.powerchurch.com/training/consultants.php

I understand fund accounting and the weaknesses inherent with QuickBooks with regards to fund accounting. That being said, what else should I be concerned about? Thank you1

rkinzerwest wrote:I understand fund accounting and the weaknesses inherent with QuickBooks with regards to fund accounting. That being said, what else should I be concerned about? Thank you1

Accounts Payable, Payroll .. the Chart of Accounts.

Training to use double entry accounting is the hardest part of the learning curve. Proper setup of restricted income accounts, expense accounts, and so on.

Tying in Contributions to properly create the deposit transactions is another area that should be looked at.