Stake Conference - Confidential Tithing Report

Once again we have a General Authority attending to preside at our Stake Conference which means we have a Confidential Tithing Report to complete for several officers of the Stake Presidency. Is this form on-line anywhere so it can be filled out electronically instead of manually and then saved to be updated next time?

bmoser wrote:Once again we have a General Authority attending to preside at our Stake Conference which means we have a Confidential Tithing Report to complete for several officers of the Stake Presidency. Is this form on-line anywhere so it can be filled out electronically instead of manually and then saved to be updated next time?

No. Your stake president should have received it with the paperwork that came from the Office of the Quorum of the Twelve relating to the conference.

I wonder if they have even thought about putting it online? Hmmm.

He did - and I started filling it in manually yet again and thats when I started looking to find an electronic version, first to make it look good and second, so it can just be updated each time.

It comes with the Presidency filled out so it starts off as a word doc(?) somewhere?

bmoser wrote:It comes with the Presidency filled out so it starts off as a word doc(?) somewhere?

The visiting general authority sends some forms and reports in advance, and brings some forms and reports with him to the conference. Since they work off of the membership and directory database, I suppose there must be a program there at CHQ that will start the document for them.

I scanned the report to a PDF document and used Adobe to create text fields to enter the information. It has worked pretty well. Let me know if you are interested.

mamadsen wrote:I scanned the report to a PDF document and used Adobe to create text fields to enter the information. It has worked pretty well. Let me know if you are interested.

I would like a copy of the pdf version of the report. I to have to fill it out.

Would you please also send me a copy. email: jimdguy@gmail.com

My typing (and handwriting) is sloppy at best. I called LUS and asked them if they had an electronic copy. They sent it to me via email (Microfsoft Word version) and that is what I have used. Just type in the information and give it to the visiting Authority. LUS should be able to supply a copy if you ask them.

davidarnett wrote:I would like a copy of the pdf version of the report. I to have to fill it out.

Will you send it to greathousebrett@gmail.com too? Thanks!

I am the District Clerk and was wondering if I can have a copy of the pdf document you have for the Confidential Tithing Report? Also, the form states (section 1.b. on the Confidential Tithing Report) that the District President should use the Annual Tithing and Donation Status Report to fill it out. Do the branch clerks have access to that information and should they just mail that directly to the District President? Is there a specific "Annual Tithing and Donation Status Report" that they send? Or do they send the District President the "Tithing Declaration Report and Tithing and Offerings Batch Summary Report which he then uses to fill out the form? Any help on how to do this correctly would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

justin.heaton011@gmail.com

bambino2 wrote:Do the branch clerks have access to that information and should they just mail that directly to the District President? Is there a specific "Annual Tithing and Donation Status Report" that they send? Or do they send the District President the "Tithing Declaration Report and Tithing and Offerings Batch Summary Report which he then uses to fill out the form?

As part of the regular year-end financial procedures, each ward and branch clerk is required to send the Annual Tithing and Donation Status Report to the stake or district president. Assuming that happened, your district president should already have all the information he needs. He (most likely with the help of the district clerk) can fill out the stake conference tithing report from the annual tithing status reports he already has.

If a branch clerk did not send that report in January as required, then he can certainly print it out from MLS and send it to the district president. He should make sure this is done, even if it weren't required for that stake conference tithing report.

Finally, I would note that the Tithing and Offerings Batch Summary Report is no longer sent by wards/branches to the stake/district (and has not been required for about three years).

Just what I needed. Thank you so much for your help!!

Where do you find this report on MLS? I had a branch clerk call me saying he didn't know where to find the Annual Tithing and Donation Status Report. Any info on where to locate it?

bambino2 wrote:Where do you find this report on MLS? I had a branch clerk call me saying he didn't know where to find the Annual Tithing and Donation Status Report. Any info on where to locate it?

The Annual Tithing Status Report is found under Finances > Tithing Settlement > Tithing Declaration Report. It is often referred to as a "Status Report" but you find it under "Tithing Declaration Report."

I am looking for an electronic copy of the Stake Conference - Confidential Tithing Report.
Does anyone have one that they would be willing to share?

Please send me a copy of the pdf document. My email address is philr@covenant-lds.com.

Thanks!

Please send me a copy of the pdf document. I sent a PM with my mail address.

I would love to get an editable version of this form if anyone is willing to share. Please send it to: ranjones5@gmail.com. Thank you!

RanJones wrote:I would love to get an editable version of this form if anyone is willing to share. Please send it to: ranjones5@gmail.com. Thank you!

The Church has not made it publicly available, so I'm not comfortable sharing it, but the stake clerk can call the scheduling office for the Quorum of the Twelve (call the CHQ switchboard and then ask for that office) and they'll be happy to email an editable form to you.

Was this a pet project by some GA a decade ago and now nobody really looks at these reports? If it is still something that is important, I would expect there would be an easier way to submit it rather than printing the report, filling out all the names and occupations by hand (again) and then looking up the tithing status for each one and then putting it in an evelope with a stamp and mailing it. Am I missing something, or is this what they still want us to do? Thanks.

carldonaldrobertson wrote:Was this a pet project by some GA a decade ago and now nobody really looks at these reports? If it is still something that is important, I would expect there would be an easier way to submit it rather than printing the report, filling out all the names and occupations by hand (again) and then looking up the tithing status for each one and then putting it in an evelope with a stamp and mailing it. Am I missing something, or is this what they still want us to do? Thanks.

In my last stake, we filled out a PDF of the form digitally and emailed it to the scheduling office. It doesn't need to be mailed in an envelope.

carldonaldrobertson wrote:Was this a pet project by some GA a decade ago and now nobody really looks at these reports?

When I became familiar with this report 38 years ago, I learned it had been around for a very long time. And yes, the visiting general authority looks at the report, and usually discusses it with the stake president during the conference.

Some visitors ask us to complete the report and give it to him when he arrives. Others ask that it be sent earlier by whatever means is convenient.

As of June 2019 there is now an online form called "Confidential Tithing Report", linked in from the Stake Conferences dashboard (https://galt.churchofjesuschrist.org/dashboard).

Step 1 is for the stake clerk or a member of the stake presidency to enter the occupation for each stake leader / bishop. So far so good, but there is no place to enter the tithing, and no mention of how that is done.

Step 2, only the stake president can see the tithing status dropdown and select "Full", "Part", or "Non". The clerk or others see nothing there and no explanation (that's the confusing part). This was confusing and needs some kind of message, or perhaps the column to still be there (not revealing the status) but with a message saying only the stake president can see this. It was only by viewing the source code that I could tell the column was in fact there, but only the stake president would see it.

Thanks for putting it online! That is much appreciated, as are all of the time saving efforts of the tech team. Just a small interface change will remove the confusion.

BrianTAllen wrote:. . . but there is no place to enter the tithing, and no mention of how that is done.

I suspect that the church enters it automatically from the latest annual status tithing report. Or more accurately, the computers probably do it.

That would be great if that is the case, but if so then the instructions need to be updated to reflect that.

I'll know for sure when I've gotten back the occupations from everyone and updated them, then the stake president can do step 2. If he can see the tithing column when logged in then I'll know and can report back. I don't think it's automated, as you say, though hopefully the initial values are filled in automatically so the SP can just review it instead of chasing down the values (which the church does have in their system).

Thanks!

The report is on line with the link following the listed Stake Conference Report.