Nonprofit Accounting

What to Look for in a Nonprofit Accounting Professional

What to Look for in a Nonprofit Accounting Professional

Your accounting professional is one of the most important working relationships you have, and vital to the success of your nonprofit. Choosing the right partner means more than just finding someone who can crunch numbers. Learn the six important traits to consider when hiring a nonprofit accounting professional.

How to Reconcile Multiple Credit Cards with Location Tracking in QuickBooks Online

How to Reconcile Multiple Credit Cards with Location Tracking in QuickBooks Online

Are you struggling to reconcile multiple credit card accounts requiring using the location tracking feature inside QuickBooks Online? In this tutorial, I show you how to reconcile your credit card accounts when you have a parent card and multiple employee cards.

How to Record Your Ministry’s Beginning Fund Balances in QuickBooks Online

How to Record Your Ministry’s Beginning Fund Balances in QuickBooks Online

If you have been using QuickBooks Online for a while, you will notice every year on January 1st or the beginning of your fiscal year, your net surplus or deficit from all of your fund balances closes to the QuickBooks Retained Earning equity account.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to record your beginning fund balances and closeout your QuickBooks Retained Earnings balance to net assets.

How to Release Used Restricted Funds For Your Ministry in QuickBooks Online

How to Release Used Restricted Funds For Your Ministry in QuickBooks Online

In this tutorial, we focus on how to release spent funds from the restricted class to the general fund class in QuickBooks Online. There are two different methods to record the release of used funds from restriction. Keep reading to find out more.

How to Record Ministry Expenses for a Restricted Fund in QuickBooks Online

How to Record Ministry Expenses for a Restricted Fund in QuickBooks Online

You collected funds for your mission fund initiatives. It is now time to disburse the funds to all of the wonderful charities your ministry supports around the globe. How do you record all the expenses in QuickBooks Online?

In this tutorial, I will show you how to record your ministry expenses for a restricted fund in QuickBooks Online continuing with my four-part blog series.

How to Record Restricted Contributions for Your Ministry in QuickBooks Online

How to Record Restricted Contributions for Your Ministry in QuickBooks Online

Recently, I have been getting questions from churches wanting to know how to track restricted funds in QuickBooks Online.

In this tutorial, I will explain what a restricted fund is and show you how to record restricted contributions for your ministry in QuickBooks Online. This is part one of tracking restricted funds for churches series.

Progress Invoicing Using the Percentage Method in QuickBooks Online

Progress Invoicing Using the Percentage Method in QuickBooks Online

Are confused by QuickBooks Online sales form labels for nonprofits? Are you looking to invoice your stakeholders (aka customers) in installments in QuickBooks Online? Are you confused by QuickBooks Online sales form labels for nonprofits?

I am answering this question and clarifying the confusion most nonprofit organizations have around the pledges vs. invoices labels in QuickBooks Online.

How to Create & Send Transaction Statements in QuickBooks Online

How to Create & Send Transaction Statements in QuickBooks Online

In QuickBooks Online, a statement is the status of a customer's account at a point in time. It is not a transaction. And, each line on a statement represents sales transaction such as credits invoices and anything that you have processed for that particular customer.

The downside of using statements in QuickBooks Online is that you cannot customize the layout and text that is on it like you could with a sales receipt or invoice. Keep reading to learn what app I recommend to create statements in QuickBooks Online.