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Bookkeeping services for all institutions dealing with money is an essence. The institution will have to note down taxation records, employee reimbursement records, track receipts, note accounts payables and receivables among others. Bookkeeping demands an expert who is more conversant with the job and who has lesser chances of withdrawing from that specific church. Churches especially tend to depend on the congregation members with the skills to perform the role of bookkeeping. The member being depended on may defect to another church or even fraud the church since he or she knows that the contract is not binding and at most, he or she can only be told to step down.

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Only through a virtual bookkeeping service can an institution like a church can be on the safer side. The church accounting and financial management should also consider the fact that the church may spend so much money paying an employee who spends very little time on the church bookkeeping. It would be a waste of money for an institution like a church to spend equal money with a busy institution like a bank on bookkeeping.

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The two employees may be demanding equal pay but the church bookkeeper will be paid to do very little. Due to the above reasons, a church should try utilizing virtual bookkeeping services. A number of reasons make virtual bookkeeping services more viable as compared to physical bookkeeping for a church. Among them, most bookkeeping services charges per hour rather than per month. A virtual bookkeeping services for the church definitely reduce the church's payroll in the long term as it has the work done without additional staff. The church will also be relieved off the employee's accrued benefits. 

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No office furniture and space will be needed to host a virtual bookkeeper. The virtual bookkeeper will never ask for offices at the church to do his or work making it cheap for the church. The virtual bookkeeping services will also ensure everything runs smoothly.

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It would be a hard task to manage the church social and spiritual issues and provide church financial management to the pastor. It is cost effective for a church to ensure a church bookkeeper that will perform the duties of the church payroll as well as church accounting.  Church bookkeepers duties should focus on assisting the church in dealing with its accounting and financial issues.

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The virtual bookkeepers utilize their offices and space a factor that makes them work on their client's books at their convenient time. All the church needs are remote connection to the virtual bookkeeping services and all will be done.