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How To Be a Successful Financial Secretary

LaQuanda Palmer

BA 215 Business Communication

July 28, 2024

How To Be a Financial Secretary

Being a church finance secretary or a financial officer requires you to manage the day-to-day flow or operations of a church. Which may include different criteria for the necessary needs of the church. This paper is to inform you and give the details that’s needed in order to do what’s needed as a financial secretary. And to provide the desire skills that may be beneficial to be successful in the position.

As part of being a church finance secretary, one of the main things to be good at is providing good record keeping skills. Which requires you to pay attention to details and present yourself as being organized with the materials that’s needed at hand. This also involves documenting transactions accurately and safeguarding financial documents to ensure compliance with requirements and facilitate audits (Leading Finance, 2017-2020).

Another skill to have would be to know how to prepare and issue payments that are approved and authorized. All payments and transaction have to have prior authorizations approved by a treasure or finance manager. Which will also require clerical skills that may determine the finance secretary to overlook policy concerning the purchase or sales of goods and services (Department of Finance Article 60 of Basic Law).

The quality of a good secretary also includes a good command of office language, typing skills, organizational abilities, and the willingness to perform various tasks. Secretaries play various roles in organizations. They also require a range of skills. They must be skilled in coordinating paperwork and information flow (Dynkin,1963).

In conclusion Secretaries and administrators play a supportive role in organization where they are employed to undertake a variety of administrative tasks. They also help keep an organization running smoothly, taking care of the administrative and organizational tasks that make the organization function. Although academic qualifications are not always needed, some employers do require you to be educated to a standard level (Lewis, 2024).

RESOURCES:

https://www.diycommitteeguide.org

https://www.ucc.org>finance

https://www.scribd.com>document

https://en.wikipedia.org>wiki>finance

Resources: www.//umcdiscipleship.org

https://www.churchstaffing.com

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