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There is an area of concern observations I came across
which I think contributed to during my examinations:
records being lost or 1. Bank reconciliation was
misplaced and that is the not done by many
inadequacy or lack of proper churches. As a result
storage space for records in bank charges and
our churches. It is a common
feature that records are interest were not picked
stored in the up.
2. Church insurance are not
homes of officers for safe paid promptly; and in a
keeping. few instances not paid at
all. This resulted in an
This situation is not ideal and accumulation of
steps should be taken to
address it. Please note that outstanding amounts
temporary records are owed to the conference.
destroyed on decision of the In a few instances the
church board and under the amounts owed were
supervision of a deacon after more than the total
being kept for a minimum of church funds. The good
seven years.
news is that most of the
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS churches in this situation
have taken steps to
Listed hereunder are some of address it.
the more frequent 3. Omissions of
transactions from the