Wednesday, April 3, 2013

How you can Prepare Year Finish Donation Acknowledgment Claims in QuickBooks

Before a donor can claim a tax break for just about any single contribution of 0 or even more, the government needs a written acknowledgment from the contribution in the nonprofit organization. Nonprofit organizations typically send these acknowledgments to contributor no after The month of january 31 of the season following a donation.

QuickBooks Premier for Nonprofits includes a nice built-in report known as Donor Contribution Summary which may be used by lots of nonprofits to organize their year-finish donation acknowledgment claims. However, this report includes all revenue including costs for services that are not tax deductible. But you may create a custom report in QuickBooks that excludes these costs. Listed here are the instructions:

1. Visit Reviews >Custom Transaction Detail Report.

2. Click the Modify Report button.

3. Choose your time frame, probably "Last Fiscal Year."

4. Choose Cash for report basis.

5. Choose Customer within the Total box.

6. Look into the posts you would like around the report and uncheck the posts you wouldn't want - at the minimum I suggest using Date, Title, Memo and Compensated Amount.

7. Choose filters tab.

8. Choose Account within the Filter box, Multiple Accounts within the Account box and appearance from the revenue accounts you need to include around the report.

9. Choose the Header/Footer tab and alter the report title to Donor Contribution Summary.

10. If you would like each donor printed on the separate page, look into the box alongside "Page break after each major grouping" after clicking paper box.

11. After you have the report searching how you need it, click the Commit to memory button.

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