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Guard Your Tongue
Church office staff members often learn personal, and sometimes embarrassing, facts about other individuals. When it comes to passing on information, an administrator may feel confused or experience tension about what to say and to whom.
Who Owns the Accounting Records?
Q: Who owns a church's accounting records? Our treasurer frequently brings some of the church's financial records home to work on them. He claims that the records are his property, and not the church's, when they are in his home. Is that correct?
Treasurer/Bookkeeper: Completing Form 1099-MISC
A church has two full-time pastors and three full-time lay employees. It also has two part-time custodians. Should these workers be treated as employees or self-employed by the church treasurer?
