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ABSTRACT
Church is a non-profit religious institution. Church has a primary orientation for service to its congregations. Nevertheless, good financial management is still needed for the organization to grow and improve the quality of service to its congregations. Currently, most of the churches already have good financial management. However, most of the financial management that is implemented is still manual, yet to use a special information system for the management of their financial database. Based on these conditions which is reinforced by the demand for the development of financial information systems for several church, this research is conducted in the development of the Church 's financial system. The system is developed using Rapid Application Development (RAD) approach, which consists of three main stages: planning, design and development, and system implementation. This article deals specifically with the design of the church's financial information system. The design of the system consists of the design of the flow diagram of the data entry accounting cycle, the use case diagram design, the Entity relationship diagram design, the activity diagram design, and the report design on the system. All the design results will be a guide in making the system.
Keywords: Church Financial Information System, Nonprofit Organization Financial Report, Rapid Application Development.
INTRODUCTION:
Good and regular financial management is required in all organizations. Good financial management strongly supports the sustainability and development of an organization. Church, as an organization, in religious field also requires a good and regular financial management. Today, most churches have a financial system. Some of the financial management concepts that is applied in some churches has also been applied in the financial accounting system. However, the system of storage, processing, and financial reporting in some churches still apply manual or traditional system (Butar-butar, 2007). They have not yet applied a computer-based system to execute their financial management. The manual bookkeeping system has several disadvantages such as recurring, recording and the need for large human resources to produce accurate and fast reports. This has an impact on the level of efficiency and effectiveness that are lacking in the management of financial in the organization.
Sourced from the above problems and the request of the church to be able to perform computerized data processing with database management...