Reduce Your Church’s Expenses
How to strengthen your bottom line and eliminate activities that miss your mission.
Budgets
6 Symptoms of Church Ministry Silos
And ways to help cure this type of disunity.
Fiscal or Yearly? Setting Your Church’s Budget Calendar
Setting your church's budget calendar may not be top-of-mind, but it affects virtually every facet of church operations.
Software: Choose Wisely
Churches are shortsighted if cost is the only consideration.
Common Church Finance Department Mistakes and How to Remedy Them
Seven ways church finances can go awry and the guidance needed to keep them on track.
The Top 10 Accounting Tasks for Churches
End each fiscal year well and with less stress by following these tips.
4 Expense Ratios and Measurements Your Church Should Monitor
These key calculations will help you measure the financial costs of doing ministry.
Planning Your Budgeting Process
The guidelines that make the budgeting process most effective for your church.
5 Key Considerations of Financial Integrity for Church Leaders
A printable checklist for financial managers of churches.
How to Create an Effective Dashboard Report for Your Ministry
Crafting reports that communicate essentials to your church leadership.
Responding to Financial Realities
What to do when either giving or expenses—or both—don’t go according to plan.
Salaries as a Percentage of Church Budget
Why churches must get the right balance, especially for a mortgage loan.
How They Do It: 5 Churches Explain Their Budget Years
The pros and cons of fiscal years versus calendar years.
Q&A: How Can We Fund a New Ministry Idea?
Set aside 'R&D' money to respond when the Spirit leads.
How Churches Spend Their Money
Five insights on church budget priorities.
Setting Staff Salaries
Churches often fail to count the hidden costs of poor salaries.
The Slow, Steady Salary Climb
Church pay shows signs of recovery. But will the new housing allowance ruling and rising healthcare costs offset gains?
Five Truths About Tithers
New research reveals what makes some Christians so generous.
Five Ways to Survive Summer with a Balanced Church Budget
How to turn around a challenging giving season.
Building on Budget
How to succeed at a church renovation project, despite two painful realities of construction.