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If your fiscal year is not on a calendar year, the next most popular fiscal year is July 1st through June 30th. There are steps you need to take in the system once your new fiscal year starts.

Year End Processing Guide

The Year End Process Guide provides step by step instructions to prepare your organization for the new 2014 Fiscal Year. The guide is available under your Getting Started menu in IconCMO or you can click here for a copy. You can also watch our Year End Processing Video.

Year End Reporting

What reports should you provide to your church board with year end financial information?

To have a clear picture of the church’s finances and to make informed decisions, church leaders need reports that show them

• what’s happening in funds

• details about expenses and revenues for the quarter

• a clear overall picture of the financial position of the church – the net worth of the organization, the total liabilities, total assets, etc.

Essential Reports

Below are three IconCMO reports (found in General Ledger: GL: GL-Reports) that can clarify and summarize the church’s financial position and activities.

1. Statement of Activities

This report works like a Profit and Loss (for all you for-profit accountants). It shows revenues for each revenue account, expenses for each expense account, and total net revenues after expenses are taken out. The report should be run for all funds combined to see the overall expenses and revenues of the church, and it can also be run for specific funds of special interest for the meeting (maybe to see how a new Capital Campaign fund is doing). You can set the report’s date range to cover activities for the first quarter of the year.

Click here to see Statement of Activities

2. Change in Net Assets – 2

This report gives a summary of the balances of each fund and the money coming into and out of each one. It also shows any transfers between funds – an important transaction type that won’t show up on the Statement of Activities. Again, you can set the report’s date range as needed.

Church Management Online Change in Net Assets 2

3. Statement of Financial Position (Balance Sheet)

This report shows the overall financial health of the church – total assets, total liabilities, total net assets ( = total assets – total liabilities). There’s no date range for this report, just one “as of” date because this report gives a “snapshot” of the financial position of the church as of that date. Again, the report should be run for all funds combined, and can also be run to see the financial position of any funds of particular interest.

Click here to see Statement of Financial Position

If you have any questions regarding your year end processing or reports, please contact our Customer Support Team at support@iconcmo or 218-236-1899.

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