Most churches hire one part time person and hope a whole finance function arrives with them. It never does, and that is not your fault. We install the whole function. Start with a free Church Finance Systems Audit: tell us what you run on today, and we send back a graded assessment and a live dashboard built for your church.
Free, and yours to keep. No obligation, and no sales presentation to sit through.
There is an invoice sitting in the pastor's text messages waiting on a yes. Someone on staff paid for something out of pocket in April and is still waiting. A board member asked a straight question last month and nobody in the room could answer it.
None of that means your people are bad at their jobs. It means nobody was ever given a finance function to run. You have been holding it together with a part time bookkeeper, a spreadsheet, and goodwill.
A bookkeeper records what already happened. That is one job, and it matters. A finance function is the set of decisions made before the money moves.
Hiring one part time person and expecting all of that was never going to work. Every church has tried it. The problem is structural, not personal, and it is why the same nine things are broken at almost every church we look at.
Records what already happened, after it happened.
This is what we grade in your audit, and it is the fastest way to see the size of the gap between what you have today and what your church actually needs. The marker on each one shows how much of it a typical bookkeeper carries. You get all ten with us.
Who is allowed to approve what, and can you prove it later.Broken: invoices approved by text. Pastor is the bottleneck.
Staff and volunteers made whole quickly, with receipts attached.Broken: people paying out of pocket and waiting. Card charges with no memo.
Ministers classified correctly and housing allowance documented properly.Broken: housing allowance never set by board resolution.
Books closed on a fixed calendar, not whenever there is time.This is the one a bookkeeper fully covers. It is one of ten.
We recommend the right giving, accounting and payroll tools for your size, set them up for you, and connect them so the numbers move between them on their own instead of being keyed in twice.Broken: manual re-entry every week between three systems that do not talk.
Your leadership writes the budget. That is your call, not ours. We advise on it, pressure test the assumptions against what your books actually show, and give the board something they can track against all year.Broken: approved in January, never opened again in June.
Knowing how many months of operating cash you are holding.Broken: nobody has ever calculated it.
Accurate, IRS-compliant statements out to every giver in January, reconciled to the books.Broken: statements that do not tie to deposits, sent late or by hand.
Reporting your board can read, with fund detail and context.Broken: a raw export handed over with no explanation.
W-9s collected up front and filings made on time.Broken: contractors paid with no W-9 on file. Filings late or missed.
This is where general bookkeepers get churches wrong, and it is the part of the audit that tends to surprise people the most.
You tell us what you run on today. About ten minutes, and you can do it from your phone in a parking lot. Then we go to work and send back the whole picture.
Where you are strong, where you are exposed, and what a real finance function would be doing that nobody is doing at your church today.
Not a PDF and not a slide deck. A working dashboard built for your church, so you can see your operation the way it is supposed to look. Yours to keep.
In order, with the reasoning. Named tools, what to keep, what to cut, what to switch.
Restricted funds, counting controls, giving reconciliation, housing allowance, benevolence and board reporting, checked against how churches are actually supposed to run.
The clock starts once your submission is in. If something needs a quick clarification we will ask, and we would rather get it right than get it fast.
Every audit comes with a working dashboard on your own private link. Not a PDF, not a slide. Below is a real one, built for a church the size of yours, with example numbers in place of theirs. Scroll it, click it, and read it the way your board would.
Because plenty of churches get an audit and never become clients, and we are fine with that. If your systems are in good shape we will tell you so and you will owe us nothing.
The churches that read the assessment and think we are never going to do all this ourselves are the ones who hire us. We would rather be the firm that gave you a straight answer than the firm that sent a proposal in two weeks.
If you go forward with us, you will have simpler systems and complete clarity on your church's finances within 30 days. If you don't, you get every dollar back. Here is exactly what clarity means, so there is nothing to argue about on day 30.
Reconciled, categorized and fund correct, through last month. No backlog, no guessing.
Giving, funds, and budget versus actual in a single place you can read in five minutes.
Tools consolidated, duplicates cut, and a written blueprint of what runs where and why.
Any financial question your board asks, answered from your own dashboard in under five minutes.
Any one of those four not true on day 30? You get a full refund.
This is not a comparison between bookkeepers. It is a comparison between a role and a department.
"Phenomenal working with Turnkey CFO. Our finances have never been clearer."
Unlocked visibility into giving trends, fund balances, and ministry spend they'd never had, so leadership now leads with insight instead of guessing.
"You have LITERALLY changed my life… there is Jesus, then my wife, then you!!"
Giving intelligence delivered every week, bill pay routed through a real approval chain, and books that close on time, so the finance work stopped landing on the lead pastor's desk.
"You have been unbelievably helpful!! THANK YOU."
Cleaned up multi-fund nonprofit books across programs and cut monthly close from three weeks to under one, with donor-ready reporting.
That is not a marketing limit. Installing a finance function properly takes real hours from real people, and every church we take on gets a named partner who knows them by name. We would rather do a handful of these properly than a long list of them badly. The audit itself is always free and always available, whether or not there is room to onboard you this year.
Every church we onboard gets the full install, not a trimmed down version of it. When we are at capacity the audit stays free, and we will tell you honestly when room opens up.
Book my free auditInstalling the function properly takes a few months to settle. Churches that start before October have their first giving statement season fully covered. After that we are working against the clock with you.
TimingContribution statements and 1099s share the same hard deadline. If your giving records are not clean, January is when you find out, in front of your donors. Churches onboarding now are clean long before it matters.
Hard deadlineAny catch-up work is quoted by how far behind the books are. Every month you wait adds another month of it, so the same decision costs more in October than it does today.
CompoundingClean cutover, no split month books. Miss a cutover and the next one is a month later, which pushes your first closed month back with it.
Cohort startYou spend about ten minutes. We do the rest, and you decide at the end with the whole picture in front of you.
About ten minutes. Your accounting software, giving platform, payroll, how bills get paid, who does the books today. Not sure is a perfectly good answer to any of it.
The graded assessment across all ten pillars, your prioritized fix list, and a live dashboard on your own private link. You do nothing at all during this part.
Keep the assessment and the dashboard either way. If you want us to install the rest of the function, we start on the first. If not, we part as friends.
Pick a time that works. We will walk through what you run on today, and your assessment and live dashboard follow shortly after.
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