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Basic Accounting for Churches

Basic Accounting for Churches

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Basic Accounting for Churches: A Turn Key Manual
Jack A. Henry
Manufacturer: B&H Publishing Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Innerfaith Ministries of Palm Springs.......2007-01-17

Thank you for asking. You know I sent for this book during a very busy time for the Post Office; yet I got the book quickly and in fine shape. I really needed it when I got it. I had to give an overview of church bookkeeping and accounting to my church last week. I used the book to outline my presentation to the Finance Committee! I was a hit, thanks to the book. They appointed me bookkeeper for the church. I told them that I could not accept the position on a permanant basis. I did accept it as a tempt until they get a permanent (younger person--I'm 76).

Since you have been sooooooo nice, could you recommend a Basic Accounting book that I could use as the church's bookkeepper? I would like to give our small church (300-350 people) some good accounting methods/principles.
The Basis Accounting book should be for just basic accounting, not church accounting or bookkeepping. I just got that from you. You're great.
Thank you sooooo much,
George Mucherson

church accounting.......2007-01-09

This truly is a basic book. It deals substantially with controls and not as much with accounting peculiar to churches, based on accepted accounting principles. Basic is the operative word. Not much help to someone having an understanding of for profit accounting and looking specifically for help with proper church accounting.

Basic Accounting for Churches.......2006-08-22

Basic to the point of 1 +1 = 2. Obsolete acounting, societal and theological principles. Written as if only males were to read it and only untrained, uneducated and uninspired male pastors would be reading the book. Needs thorough updating regarding software and computers, or better yet, to be removed from available references. A waste of money and overpriced for an older paperback.

Basic Accounting for Churches.......2006-08-04

This is a very basic manual. Especially good for those with little or no accounting or financial background.

Not very helpful.......2005-07-07

This was published in 1994 - it still talks about "dot matrix printers" and manual accounting...save your money and look at some other really terrific resources online (specifically by Zondervan - very good). Not helpful at all if you know even basic accounting.

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A good base to work from

Church Management Basics
Ferdinand J. Burger
Manufacturer: iUniverse
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Believing that a church or mission should be managed according to a structured module based on Biblical principles, Church Management Basics provides leadership and management with some basic ideas to help the reader become more accountable and responsible in their work. Not only are general topics, such as Finance, Administration and Human Resources discussed, but they are also examined more fully where appropriate.

Hands-on examples are used to illustrate the application of solutions offered, and further tools and samples add to the innovative ingredients to make this book a must read for all church leaders, workers in missions and employees of other non-profit organizations.

Areas of business covered in Church Management Basics include: Management and Leadership, sharing the vision and keeping the vibrancy going, finance and basic accounting for non-profit organizations, document management, administration, time management, project management, IT-Systems, Human Resources Management in churches and how not to lose the main focus of God's Church on earth while doing all the day to day tasks.

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A good base to work from.......2005-04-26

I found this book quite true to the title "...Basics" - as it is a good base to work from. We used some of the ideas and points to build up our own structure. This was made easier by the straightforward terms the author used.

Looking forward to the follow-up! Something like "Church Management Guidelines/Tips and Tricks/Stepping Stones..."??

A definite good buy, thank you.

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Sir Arthur Bliss was one of England's most renowned twentieth-century composers. This bio-bibliography provides a brief biography prepared with the assistance of the composer's widow. It then presents a complete list of works and performances, classified by genre and arranged alphabetically by title of composition. Each entry contains a list of premiere performances, with references to commentaries from performance reviews cited in the bibliography. Brief details are also given concerning original manuscripts and their location. The next section contains a discography of commercially and privately produced sound recordings. An annotated bibliography of writings by the composer and about him and his music follows. Annotations are often in the form of quotations from performance reviews. The bibliography concludes with appendices providing alphabetical and chronological listings of Bliss's works and a complete index of names and titles.

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A child is kidnapped and hidden for years in Europe and Canada by a Hasidic rabbi and his frenzied followers -- all in the name of God.

The politicians and the courts both turn their backs. The mother is an Israeli immigrant, alone and powerless against their arrogance and high-profile lawyers. What do they want? Why did they take her boy?

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Murder is holy.......2006-11-01

"Murder is holy."
Saying so out loud probably would raise fewer protests now than it would have before Sept. 11, 2001. But the idea flourishes in other places than the madrassahs of Pakistan or the squalid huts of Jonestown.
In "The Zaddik," Elaine Denholtz retells, in enough detail to make any parent's skin crawl, an example from Brooklyn. The case of Shai Fhima did not produce a corpse, although his stepfather did have his finger sliced off by fanatical bigots, but it amounted to what the Germans call "soul murder."
The man who told Denholtz, sarcastically, that "murder is holy" was lawyer Steve Rubenstein, who with his partner Larry Meyerson almost saved Shai Fhima.
For more than four years, New Jersey lawyers Meyerson and Rubenstein worked for free to help recover Shai, who was kidnapped at age 13 by hasidic terrorists in Brooklyn.
Their leader, Rabbi Schlomo Helbrans, told Shai's mother, Hana Fhima, that she should be grateful not to see her son again, because Helbrans had detected that Shai was meant to be a zaddik, a man who talks to God.
Hasidim has no history in Judaism, having been invented in modern times in Poland. Hasids are anti-Zionists, refusing to live in Israel until the Messiah returns, which helps explain how one of their world centers is Borough Park in Brooklyn.
The system -- both the government and his own society -- let Shai Fhima down badly. To the extent that Shai survived, it was due to the devotion of two private lawyers; a Brooklyn cop, Bill Plackenmeyer; and Shai's mother.
Arrayed against the little boy were the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles Hynes; practically the entire Jewish community of greater New York; several judges; and an indifferent international community.
The case was a local sensation around New York, and Denholtz spent much time with Hana Fhima during Shai's lost years. Hana Fhima's woeful story is affecting, but the telling is not enhanced by Denholtz's Police Gazette literary style.
This is the only book-length account of the Fhima kidnapping so far, and a more serious one is needed. Denholtz alleges that there have been many Shai Fhimas, and, presumably, there will be more, because the Satmars (another name used for hasids) do not believe they are accountable to civil law.
Such serious charges need better documentation than they receive here.
Eventually, Helbrans went to prison and Shai was reunited with his family. At last report, he was denying he had been kidnapped and was living in a hasidic community in Monsey, N.Y.
If there is a sadder figure in this sad book than Hana Fhima, it is the mother of Schlomo Helbrans. She says her boy was kidnapped by Satmars, too.

Author can't get even simple facts right.......2003-12-30

I knew the facts were going to be questionable when I opened the book to the chapter called "Brooklyn" (pg 30) and read "in the Boro Park section of Williamsburgh Brooklyn....". A simple map of Bklyn would have showed this lady from NJ that these are two separate communities. If she can't get this right, how can she be relied on to get anything else straight? This is a totally one sided, self hating story - which would be the case whether it were fiction or non fiction. One star for all those interesting errors and pseudo dialogue.

Not Quite the "Whole Truth".......2002-12-10

The back cover of this book quotes a authority on cults, who notes that this story "dramatically illustrates the tragic effects of deception, manipulation, and mind control that cultic groups typically employ...."

The same can also be said of authors. And I can't remember an author who better illustrates deception based on half-truths and the manipulation of the truth to controls the readers' mind than Elaine Grudin Denholtz. Indeed, Ms Denholtz, who counts such intellectually-provoking plays as, "The Dungmen are Coming," "Love Games" and "Doggy Bag" and books like How to Save Your Teeth and Your Money and Having It Both Ways: A Report on Married Women with Lovers among her literary achievements probably thought that she picked a winning topic this time: a "true" story about a "Hasidic rabbi and his frenzied followers," corrupt political and legal systems, an international conspiracy and a woman alone, battling them all for her child and the truth. Oh, if it were only true.

In her Foreword, the author indicates that she presented the story (emphasis mine) "to the best of my knowledge," and warns the reader that, certain quotations "represent substantially what I believe [from] sources I believe reliable." And, yes, "I recreated what I believed likely." So, with those caveats this intrepid reporter weaves a tale more suited to a tabloid than serious discussion of the issue.

Any reader who is honestly concerned with the facts should avoid this book; its appeal rests on stereotypes and the most sordid of biases. Denholtz is obviously an irreligious Jew who appears neither to understand the Hassidic way of life nor cares to learn. But, because it is a "fundamentalism" that offends her and that she rejects, it's fair game. So she read a few newspaper cllippings, talked to a few member of the cast, padded it with her hatred and imagination and, boom, filled 360 pages.

Who am I to be so critical? Simply put, I was there as the story unfolded and played-out and I know the truth. Although not a follower of Rabbi Helbrans, frenzied or otherwise, I do know him, have met Shai Fhima and know his story and motivations, attended sessions of the trial and read the complete transcript, and know many of the principals. And to this day I find it difficult to believe that such a miscarriage of justice occurred in this country.

Perhaps the most telling part of this book is the last sentence of the last page of the story. She quotes Shia Fhima who maintains to this day that, although he leads a less religious lifestyle, he wasn't kidnapped. And, typically, the author's inclusion of that one telling quote from the "victim," himself, appears almost as an afterthought that might be dismissed in light of the truth as she wishes the reader to believe it. The very least she might have done was attribute the quote's source rather than lead the reader to believe that she may have actually gotten it through a direct interview. For the record, it was taken with only slight modification from the April 1, 2001 NY Times article, "Following Up: Overcoming Tug of War of His Family and Rabbi," by Joseph Fried. So much for integrity. This review of her book is just my opinion.

Interesting story.......2002-03-17

The story of Shai Fhima's kidnapping and the journey to get him back is one which is very hard to read and understand. This being a true story makes it that much harder. I would not call it a 'good book' because of the content, but I will say that I am very glad I read it. The events are absolutely horrifying, but important to be aware of. There are sick and disturbing things that go on in this world. I recommend it.

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