Fast Offering expenditure report options

4 postsstarted by oganloc 2,074 viewsoriginal topic

New Member
#1
I am a relatively new Ward Clerk, and we have a new bishop who was called within the last few weeks. He asked me whether it is possible to print a report from the financial records that would indicate who has received fast offering assistance within the last year, and whether that information can be reported on a member basis, as opposed to a payee basis. I know that we can create a report that would reflect how much is being paid to the local utility company (for example), but unable to determine whether there is a way to identify how much has been expended for Bro. John Doe over the last 1-2 years. Do anybody know if this type of reporting capability is available?
Senior Member
#2
If memory serves, there is a Recipient report that will show the transactions paid for the benefit of each fast offering recipient (that is, the member getting the aid). I believe that report can be filtered by member and date range, but not by category (housing, food, utilities, other). The ability to produce subtotals is quite limited.
New Member
#3
I am relatively new as well, our bishop asked the same type of question... What I have started doing is looking at each month to show the recipient, but I shrink mine to only show the person only. Then I manually put it into Excel. I do this with the food orders as well. This way our bishop can see who has received what over the past 3 years. I decided 3 years should be enough and I will document it going forward. But you can pull that query, it just cannot be exported where you can manage it easier.
Church Employee
#4
The fast offering recipient report should give you most of the information you need. All fast offering payments are listed and you can generate either a summary report (total payments for each recipient for a date range) or a detail report for a specific recipient. The only thing missing there that was mentioned above would be food orders.