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We are receiving checks from individuals for Girls' Camp. They are posting to "Other". How can we see the balance for this account?

Welcome to the forum! Hopefully the funds gathered were placed in a sub-category created for that specific purpose in Other. The Other category can be viewed in MLS by selecting Finance --> Finance Reports --> Income and Expense Report. The sub-categories can be seen by selecting "Summary by Sub-Category" in the "Report" pull-down.

I found the Record-Keeping and Auditing Training lessons to be invaluable in my clerk calling. Under "Keeping Financial Records", they have a great one called "Understanding and Using the 'Other' Category". I highly recommend going through it.

eallred wrote:We are receiving checks from individuals for Girls' Camp. They are posting to "Other". How can we see the balance for this account?

Hopefully you have created a sub-category of Other such as "Other:Girls Camp" that you deposit all these checks into (and from which you will write checks for related expenses). That is the key to tracking pass-through accounts such as this.

And I would certainly second Mikerowaved's suggestion to review the training on this topic. The training will cover the topic of sub-categories.

You might also want to check out this page:

https://tech.lds.org/wiki/index.php/Reconciliation

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