True Fund Accounting

As a true Fund Accounting system, Logos makes it easy to define and track accounts for any restricted funds you wish to maintain in addition to your General Fund. Logos is a powerfully complete, yet simple-to-use system, that lets you quickly set up and maintain efficient financial records for your organization.

Double-entry System

Double-entry allows you to balance your books as you record both where money came from or went to (Income or Expense accounts) and where the money is retained (Checking Account). Most routines within Logos automatically update the Checking Account(s), so that you only need to identify the appropriate Income or Expense account(s).

Auditable Books

Logos makes it easy to verify the accuracy of your transactions and then to post them rapidly and without error into GL accounts. As soon as you post, your system is up-to-date and your entries are permanently stored, making your books truly auditable. If changes need to be made after posting, easy-to-use routines create new, correcting entries, maintaining the integrity of your audit trail.

Flexible Chart of Accounts Structure

Easily enter or import your accounts, and edit, change, or delete them at any time. Use Logos' flexible structure to make your Chart of Accounts as simple or sophisticated as you need.

Multiple Checking Accounts

Keep multiple checking accounts and produce reports for each one, or use just one checking account and let Logos keep track of money for each fund/department.

Reports for Any Period(s)

Print reports for one or more reporting periods, which may be different from (or the same as) the current accounting period.

Easy Budget Entry / Import

Create or import budgets (for the current year or succeeding years) and adjust them easily whenever needed. You also have the option to copy another year�s budget into the year you are editing, saving time in re-entry for items that will not change.

Recurring Entries

Logos Accounting lets you define recurring entries, avoiding repetitive data entry for transactions that are the same or similar every week, month, quarter, etc.

Import Revenue Data

Easily import revenue totals from Logos II Church/Donor Management or Logos School or other programs - and/or quickly enter deposits using the Deposit Assistant. (Logos II has the option to automatically post giving totals to General Ledger accounts at the same time it updates donor records. This provides a seamless "audit trail" for your financial entries.)

Fast Adjustment Entries

Entering or editing journal (adjustment) entries is easy following Logos� clear and simple entry routine.

Deposit Distribution

Quickly distribute line items to multiple income accounts for a single deposit.

Automatic GL Account Updates

Instantly and automatically update GL accounts when AP and PR transactions are posted.

Real-Time Account Information

Check the up-to-the minute status of any account - including the most recent deposit or check written. No need to wait until a period ends to see where you are.

Out of Balance Resolution

Logos keeps you from posting if you are out of balance - and it helps you find and resolve the problem!

Bank Reconciliation

Quickly mark cleared checks and deposits, and enter adjustments in the Bank Reconciliation routine (which walks you through the steps to bring your books into agreement with your bank statement).

Quick and Easy Reporting

Produce any financial report in minutes - or less! And do it at any time! Run any report for individual accounts or groups of accounts, departments, funds, or for the entire organization.

• Fund Balance Reports -
  While any report can be printed for any fund, bookkeepers and accounts love the Fund reports that get a birds'-eye view of activity for restricted funds, data you cannot easily get from most generic accounting packages.
• Budget Planning -
  Use Logos' Budget routines to simplify planning and budgeting for coming months or years, entering annual totals, then distributing the amount over any range of months. You can then easily adjust monthly amounts to project cash flow. And Budget Planning Reports give you a variety of tools to aid you in the budgeting process.
• Comparison Reports -
  Quickly compare income and expense, current month with past months, this year with prior years, as well as actual performance with your budget.
  

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Automate Paying Bills

Significantly reduce your time spent on paying bills, keeping track of invoices and updating General Ledger accounts. Whenever you desire, you can quickly find the amounts owed any or all vendors - and the total amount owed by a specific date.

Accrual or Cash Option

Logos Accounting lets you choose the method your organization prefers.

Multiple AP Accounts

If set to Accrual, you may create multiple AP accounts, allowing you to monitor your open items by Department, Fund, or other criteria.

Fast Invoice Entry

Enter items easily and quickly, with your choice of whether to print a check for each vendor individually, print checks for selected vendors, or save your entries to process at a later time.

Full Control of Open Items

Choose whether to select which invoices to pay on a vendor-by-vendor basis, by automatically selecting all invoices due by a selected date, or by choosing a specific checking account. You can also make a full or partial payment on any invoice, or reverse a transaction with a single keystroke, or retain an invoice for payment at a later date. You can even mark vendors to receive separate checks for each invoice, if desired.

Computer or Hand-Written Checks

Easily print checks and/or enter items that were written by hand, updating accounts without risk of running duplicate checks.

Electronic Fund Transfers

Readily enter data on payments made electronically, accurately updating your GL accounts and vendor records. With Logos E-Pay, you can quickly transmit the payment data to your bank for distribution to your vendors.

Void/Spoil Checks if Needed

If a problem occurs in printing or distributing checks, Logos makes it easy to void or spoil them, protecting the validity of your data.

AP Reports by Date or Vendor

Print a detailed report of all open items, showing each vendor and the amounts owed , print the Cash Requirement report to see up-to-date information on the amount needed to pay all invoices due by a selected date,print the Detailed Aging Report to see any amounts which are overdue and the total amounts owed, listed by length of time they are overdue, and more!

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Save Time and Money

Since payroll is often the largest expense for a church or school, efficient and reliable handling of this function is vital. Now you can easily analyze payroll costs for individuals and departments, as well as monitor earned time: vacation, sick pay, and/or personal time. And, Logos Payroll saves you both time and money compared to using a payroll service!

Withholding Options

Easily identify the GL accounts impacted by federal, state, and local withholding. Define withholding information on each employee, including those with ministerial exemptions. You can identify car and housing allowances for pastors.

Varied Employee Definitions

Define both hourly and salaried, full-time and part-time employees, allowing variations in pay frequencies, overtime, bonuses, vacation, sick pay, and personal time off.

Direct Deposit Options

Employees who desire can be quickly set up for Direct Deposit, with the ability to distributeelectronic paychecks among multiple bank accounts (Checking, Savings, etc.).

Special Deductions

Define special deductions and earnings: worker compensation, insurance, expense allowances, charitable donations, loans, etc.

Fast Payroll Processing

Quickly select and those for whom payroll checks are to print - from a single staff member or department to everyone!

Automatic Calculation

a single keystroke automatically launches accurate calculation of all current earnings: salary, overtime, vacation, sick pay, deductions, and taxes.

Comprehensive Payroll Reports

At any time, print a Payroll Summary for any date or date range. You can also quickly print a Check Register, list of deductions, summary of earned time benefits, pension plans, health insurance, workers compensation, employee information, etc.

Quarterly/Annual Tax Reports

All the tax information you need to submit each quarter and year-end is at your finger-tips.

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Accounts Receivable

This optional module can be added to Logos Accounting to provide a highly flexible and efficient system for managing all phases of your receivables.

Asset Manager

Asset Manager is an add-on that allows you to easily keep track of all the physical assets that your organization owns.

User Financial Reports

Logos Accounting User Reports combines the power of our Logos Accounting program with Microsoft's Excel ® spreadsheet program - a truly powerful financial reporting tool. Plus, you also get tools to create and modify copies of all the standard reports.

Electronic W2 Filing

The Payroll module provides this optional Add On to accommodate organizations that need to electronically file W2 data.

Global Backup / Offsite Data Storage

Logos Global Backup allows you to define a schedule for automatically backing up your invaluable data, with the additional option to transmit the backups via the Internet to a secure offsite server - either your own or one managed for you by Logos. Logos Global Backup not only can backup your Accounting data, it can backup data for all your Logos programs at the same time, or on different schedules that you define.

Checks and Forms

You can easily print checks and tax forms through Logos' Print routines, and Logos provides numerous style choices to fit your organization. Logos checks and forms are guaranteed to work with Logos Accounting.

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Extensive Access Security

All Logos programs are password-protected, allowing the System Administrator to quickly assign each user a unique level of program access. Access levels can quickly be set to block a person from an entire module (Contributions, Payroll, etc.), one or more particular menus (Utilities), or specific routines on any menu. You can even limit access to all or selected tabs within Preferences and selected Data Entry routines.

Custom Settings to Fit User

Each Logos user can define numerous settings for how he or she wants program features to work. Window sizes and other options can be easily defined and these changes are stored with that user�s login. Thus, on any computer on a network, a person can work with his or her own settings.

Preview/Print Export Any Report

All reports let you preview before printing, send the report to any printer, to a document or to a spreadsheet. You can also create a PDF or HTML file from the report, or export the report data to any of various data formats.

Backup/Restore Data

Logos provides a quick, easy routine to safely backup data files, both as a precaution before updating multiple files and as a protection against system problems. If it ever becomes necessary, the companion Restore routine quickly returns a backup into your active directory.

Multiple Data Sets

You can define one or more additional data sets in order to manage separate "child" organizations (school, camp, cemetery, etc.) that fall under your "parent" organization. This is all done with one program license and with no worries about data or settings for one organization getting mixed up with records for another.

Smart Auto-Fill/Keyboard Shortcuts

Begin to type an account number or name, and Logos instantly advances to that account in the scroll list. Logos also provides keyboard shortcuts to speed your work, giving you the option of using your keyboard or mouse.

Hosted Software Solution (24/7 Access)

Logos Web Hosting is a popular service that offers our full-featured desktop applications with the convenience of 24/7 Internet access. From home or office or on-the-road, your staff and volunteers can efficiently work in Logos programs at times and places convenient to them. They can view, enter and update information, plus print reports, all without having to install and maintain either the software or a sophisticated network. Various plans are available, tailored to the number of people who need to access your Logos programs.

Web Link Options

Logos provides a variety of options for identifying data that you want to link to one of our powerful Web-based applications (Ministry Connection, Ministry Dashboard or Logos360). A single keystroke identifies a Fund or Group or Skill/Ministry item that you want to web-enable.

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