Organize Your Parish Finances 

This article helps walk you through the basics of parish financial management. This article gives examples of financial statements and helps walk you through what is expected of individuals involved in parish finances. 

Watch our Overview of Financial Administration Presentation

In this presentation of “What Do The Numbers Mean?: An overview of financial administration within Parish life, Presented by: Iryna Laschuk, Chancellor / Director of Finance” we discuss

1. Why is financial health important?
2. Who is responsible for the financial duties in a parish?
3. What do the numbers mean? What tools can we use?
4. When is financial information reported?
5. How to monitor the financial health of our parishes?
6. Where to get help?

To download and view the PowerPoint, click here.

Download our example parish statement in Microsoft Excel. This sample includes an example budget, profit and loss statement, and balance sheet. To learn more about this topic, watch our video on parish financial administration.