There are two great resources on this website—
A FREE updated version of the book Keeping Your Parish Financially Healthy: An Easy-To-Read Guide to Parish Finances for People Without Financial Backgrounds by Harold B. Averkamp.

Parish council members, church finance committee members, and church administrators from all over the country have found this book to be a practical and straightforward guide to the important work of managing church finances.

Averkamp served on church finance committees, parish councils, and as a trustee-treasurer in a number of parishes. He is a certified public accountant and holds an MBA from Northwestern University and an accounting degree with honors from Marquette University. For many years, his sole proprietorship "Church Data Service" helped churches in Southeastern Wisconsin better manage their finances.

Click here to access the 2005 version of this book completely free of charge.


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The second resource AccountingCoach.com is a recent website developed by Harold Averkamp (author of Keeping Your Parish Financially Healthy) and reflects his twenty-five years of teaching accounting at a university nationally recognized for its outstanding accounting program.

The site is intended to benefit those who want a better grasp of accounting concepts—people such as administrators, students, employees, small business owners, beginning investors, and others.

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