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Download Collection & Accounting Guidelines
These newly expanded guidelines, which relate to both a church’s Sunday collection and its disbursements operations (including bank accounts), contain step-by-step, easy-to-understand instructions on how to proceed. The guidelines even include a description of the simple, low-cost equipment which must be combined with the recommended procedures before your Sunday collection and disbursements operations can be elevated from the status of a sitting duck (most are) to that of an unobtrusive Fort Knox.
It’s been said that one picture is worth a thousand words. In this case, however, one picture could be worth a thousand dollars - every week - to a single parish. The two pictures shown below depict what are, for all practical purposes, the only two acceptable methods for securing a Sunday collection. In either case, this procedure must be performed immediately after the collection has been taken up by the ushers. Any delay whatsoever opens the door to the possibility of surreptitious theft. |
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Depicted in the photo on the left is a closable nylon sack from A Rifkin Co., being used in combination with a tamperproof numbered seal from ULINE. The photo on the right depicts a serially numbered tamper-evident polyethylene bag from SECUR-PAK. SECUR-PAK bags are one-time-use but can be purchased in bulk with price breaks for quantity purchases. Centralized purchasing is therefore highly recommended to reduce costs. (See guidelines for further details.)
To download our guidelines, simply click on the hyperlink shown below. Depending upon your particular browser, you’ll be given the option of opening the document or saving it. If you elect to save it, you can then open it via your own word processing program.
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