Building Accountability in Religious Organization Through Accounting Changes

摘要

The purpose of this study was to develop a more modern church management and professional organizations considering that generally have less attention to corporate governance, especially in financial transparency and accountability. It is a qualitative research that explore people understandingwho give his life in church services, i.e., preacher, church volunteree, church assembly and churchgoers. Participative observation is gathered to keep rich data in Javanesse local church of East Java. This research helps create tranquility and comfort in social life because it is able torealize the good governance of the church. It was found an insight in church knowledge capital. It also found that there is an importance of governance of nonprofit organizations both in terms of the church’s religious organizations and the importance of managing financial accounting.As local traditional church, people give full commitment in transparency, give detail of any information in church offering, revenue and expense.