The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Can you? Yes. If an original receipt or an original invoice is lost, you can substitute in a written explanation with the payment’s purpose, a description of what was bought or paid for, the date the payment was made, the name of the person assisted (for payments from the fast-offering fund), and pr...

The MLS Expense report has a clear line for the bishop's signature. In the middle of the page, just below the list of checks, there's a small line that acts as a divider with the name of the user who was logged on when the checks were issued. I consider it informational only. I don't consider that a...

There's not actually a place for his signature on the report, because the only required signature is the bishop's. I don't have an issue with a financial clerk processing his own reimbursement, so long as the approval and signatures on the check come from someone else. The financial clerk's role is ...

According to your logic, then no matter what the stake does there will be no transparency ever. The stake doesn't have to justify to the wards how much money is allocated (though our stake does). In this case, the stake has provided an invoice to each ward that shows how much money is going to be w...

As mmaynor pointed out, by cutting a check from the Other category to the Ward, a paper trail is created. Further, by attaching all documents pertaining to the transaction, the paper trail is reinforced. Finally, the funds that are allocated to wards from the stake technically are the stake's to co...

- Rather than having each ward write a check or transfer to the Stake from our Other: Scout camp account, the Stake plans to withhold the amount due from the next quarterly allocation . Unless the stake normally manually sends budget allocation checks to each ward, I see this going very badly. Whil...

To be clear, the minutes of a meeting should almost never consist of what was discussed , but rather only what was decided . So when the Clerk is recording what assignments were made and what decisions were reached - those are the minutes. No need to rehash the previous meeting's discussion in the c...

The $400 a month goes for your Missionaries room and board and these are not tax deductible and shouldn't be. That's why unless you want to help support a specific Mssionary you should you should donate to the ward missionary fund which is tax deductible. Without getting into the nuances of US tax ...

As a last ditch effort, you can see if the browser has remembered the entries in the forms. Go into each entry location, and press the down arrow to choose the last-entered information.

This just encourages me to bring my own laptop for each audit.

Are there any instructions as to how large the sample size should be? You check for the signatures on all of the checks you are testing. The ward audit calls for at least 18 payment transactions, including payments, fast offering assistance, automatic charges, and large or unusual payments. The sig...