Success Story

Grace Church of Overland Park

Baker Tilly Helps Kansas City area Church gain insight

Background

Grace Church is located in the southeastern suburb of Overland Park, Kansas and is led by Senior Pastor, Tim Howey. It is a fast growing church planning to open a second location. After a rigorous software evaluation, Grace Church chose Baker Tilly's platform over other on-premises and cloud solutions as the best faith based financial accounting software to meet the needs of the organization.

“The Baker Tilly team has a ton of church experience and I could really lean on them when I needed to.”

John Rauscher, Finance Director
Grace Church of Overland Park

Previous accounting challenges

Grace Church's main issues apparent in the lack of reporting within QuickBooks available to their church finance team, and the tremendous amount of time spent outside the system and in Excel preparing reports for the church's leadership. Many reports weren't available to leaders at all.
Without the necessary financial and operational reporting like a modern online church accounting software offers, church leaders were unable to make strategic decisions, track spending or create budgets and forecasts without a great deal of manual work.

“I knew that I had a team backing me up as we walked through this. For other software implementations I’ve been involved in I got the feeling that folks hadn’t done many. I didn’t get that feeling with Baker Tilly.”

John Rauscher, Finance Director
Grace Church of Overland Park

Benefits realized after Baker Tilly

Grace Church now has automated manual processes which helped them speed its financial close while improving compliance and transparency.
The Grace Church leaders can now securely view, understand and take action in response to changing conditions — such as defining financial and operational targets, monitoring costs and performance.

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Baker Tilly curates, integrates and optimizes the right technology stack for your organization. We layer in our own proprietary “last mile” solutions. And we offer these technologies either via a Software-as-a-Service delivery model, where your own Finance function manages the day-to-day use of the technology or via a Finance-as-a-Service delivery model where we run your accounting operations and provide the outcomes you need.

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