topics: Accounting and Reporting
What are the key drivers when choosing your church’s accounting software?
Looking for Church Accountants and Treasurers to participate this summer!
Tracee McAtear is conducting this exciting research project for the MSc in Charity Accounting and Financial Management at City, University of London. There is a wide range of charity accounting software currently available, and she is interested to find out from you as the finance officer, the process of identifying the software your church currently uses, and how it is currently used in your context. If you participate, your church could be one of six churches taking part in this multiple case study.
At a mutually convenient time, Tracee, will visit each church location to observe the charity accounting software in use, and then interview the participants regarding how the software was chosen and then integrated into the finance routines. It would be preferable for the observation and interview to take place on the same day and with the subject’s consent, for an audio recording to be made of the interview if onsite. Alternatively, the interview can take place over a video call (eg. Zoom) which will be recorded.
The benefit to participants and their churches is that Tracee can also provide you with feedback to you about other systems and give you a free and unbiased view of your current system and its integration into the finance function. All observations and interviews will be in strict confidence.
The observations and interviews of the six churches will take place June – July 2022. The resulting data will be analysed and compared, and the findings presented in the dissertation that will be submitted to Bayes Business School in September 2022. To learn more about the project please click the link to register your interest and to receive the detailed Participant Information sheet and the Informed Consent Form.
