{"id":34786,"date":"2024-07-18T17:32:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T16:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leogeracademy.hestia.wpspace.me\/help\/non-knowledgebase\/uncategorized\/overview-of-finances\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T09:55:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T08:55:59","password":"","slug":"overview-of-finances","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/basics-finance\/overview-of-finances\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The ChurchTools finance module offers an accounting solution for small and medium-sized churches. Anyone can book transactions from anywhere. <br\/><strong>Anyone<\/strong>: Both the experienced bookkeeper and the area manager who wants to make bookings for their area, such as the book table or the caf\u00e9.<br\/><strong>Anywhere<\/strong>: Anyone can log in to ChurchTools securely from anywhere as usual and get started.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you navigate to the finance module, you will first see an overview of the <em>last income<\/em>, <em>expenses<\/em>, <em>donations<\/em> and the <em>highest donations of the last 31 days<\/em> (1). The <em>budgets<\/em> (2) of all cost centers are also displayed. Use these tiles to quickly switch to the <em>transactions<\/em> (6) or <em>budgets<\/em> (7).  <\/p>\n\n<p>Above the overview on the left-hand side <em><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/transactions\/19-how-to-enter-transactions-using-expert-view\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7185\">you can quickly enter new transactions<\/a><\/em> (3), <em>change the client and accounting year<\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/help\/churchtools-modules\/stammdaten\/30-wie-kann-ich-ein-buchungsjahr-abschliessen\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7173\">close an accounting year<\/a><\/em> (5).<\/p>\n\n<p>Via the 2nd menu level above, you can also switch to the <em>transactions<\/em> (6) and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/master-data-finance\/19-how-to-add-budgets\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/help\/churchtools-module\/stammdaten\/30-wie-lege-ich-budgets-an\/\">budgets<\/a><\/em> (7), but you can also view the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/transactions\/19-using-bank-statements-well\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7162\">bank statements<\/a><\/em> (8). <\/p>\n\n<p>Under <em>Reports<\/em> (9) you will find, for example, the balance sheet and profit and loss report.  <\/p>\n\n<p>Under <em>Donors<\/em> (10) you can see an overview of all donors and <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/donations\/19-how-to-create-donation-receipts\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7168\">create donation receipts<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n<p>On the right-hand side of this level, open up the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/master-data-finance\/19-master-data-overview\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7165\">master data<\/a><\/em> (11) of the finance module, where you can create new <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/master-data-finance\/19-how-to-add-a-new-client\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7177\">clients<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/master-data-finance\/19-how-to-add-a-new-accounting-year\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7175\">accounting years<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/master-data-finance\/19-how-to-set-up-an-account-chart\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7176\">charts of accounts<\/a>, among other things.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2025-04-22-at-09.25.59.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1398\" height=\"865\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2025-04-22-at-09.25.59.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2025-04-22-at-09.25.59.png 1398w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2025-04-22-at-09.25.59-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2025-04-22-at-09.25.59-1024x634.png 1024w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2025-04-22-at-09.25.59-768x475.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/CleanShot-2025-04-22-at-09.25.59-360x223.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1398px) 100vw, 1398px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ChurchTools finance module offers an accounting solution for small and medium-sized churches. 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