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      Church organizations, like many organizations in the public sector, are currently undergoing major changes. A variety of influences are creating considerable pressure to adapt. This affects the church's core area as well as the numerous church legal entities.

      Due to demographic change and the associated changes in the membership structure, the resources of church legal entities and financing models will change significantly in the coming years. The digitalization of all areas of life and organization is progressing rapidly.

      Need for transparency requires effective monitoring and control mechanisms

      Legal situations in many areas of law are changing significantly, such as tax law, labor law and data protection legislation. An ever-increasing need on the part of members and the public as a whole for transparency in the areas of finance, structures and decisions requires effective control and management mechanisms.

      We support church organizations with services developed specifically for the church sector. Our solutions are designed to help ensure that resources and finances are developed sustainably, that the necessary transparency is guaranteed with the required quality and that church activities are legally compliant and responsible. We want to help you create secure structures for tomorrow.

      Our solutions are designed to help ensure that resources and finances are developed sustainably, that the necessary transparency is guaranteed and that church activities can be organised in a legally compliant and responsible manner.

      Axel Bachmann
      Axel Bachmann

      Partner, Audit, Regulatory Advisory, Head of Digital Process Compliance, Head of Kirchen and Non-Profit-Organisations

      KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

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      Our range of services for church organisations

      We support church organisations with services developed specifically for the church sector.

      Our solutions are designed to contribute to the sustainable development of resources and finances, to ensure the necessary transparency with the required quality and to organise church activities in a legally compliant and responsible manner. We want to help you create secure structures for tomorrow.

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      Supporting church organisations: Our consulting focus areas

      Church organisations operate in a special field of tension between mission, public welfare orientation, regulation, financing and public expectation. Standard solutions often fall short here. What is needed are consulting teams that bring together economic, organisational and cultural dimensions.

      KPMG supports you in particular in the development of target images and transformation programmes. This includes organisational analyses, process improvements, process optimisations, governance models, programme management and change management. We also advise on digitalisation projects, data and IT strategies, risk management and the further development of controlling and reporting structures in church administration.

      Real estate, investments and church institutions also often require new management approaches. KPMG helps to make portfolios transparent, improve the basis for decision-making and assess the economic impact of different options for action. In this way, priorities can be set in a well-founded manner and administrative work can be relieved in a targeted manner.

      Combining trust, impact and economic stability

      Churches work with a high degree of social responsibility. Decisions regarding structures, resources, administrative work and digital services must therefore be comprehensible, resilient and sustainable. Management, church administration and governing bodies need clear information in order to combine the church's mission with economic stability.

      KPMG brings experience from the public sector, consulting, transformation, governance and digitalisation. Our experts are familiar with complex organisations with decentralised structures and special stakeholder expectations. Together with you, KPMG develops solutions that fit the respective church organisation and remain sustainable during implementation.

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      Transformation for churches means the strategic further development of organisation, management, administrative work, processes and resources. The aim is to effectively fulfil the church's mission even in the face of changing social, financial and personnel conditions.

      KPMG supports churches with digital strategies, process modernisation, data and IT structures and the implementation of specific digitalisation programmes. The focus is on sustainable solutions that effectively relieve the burden on church administration, management and church institutions.

      Important topics include organisational development, church administration, governance, financial management, digitalisation, real estate management, risk management and change management. Depending on the structure, the focus may also be on investments, trustee organisations and social institutions.

      Governance creates clear responsibilities, transparent decision-making processes and robust control mechanisms. This is particularly important for church administration and governing bodies because church organisations work with public responsibility, complex structures and diverse stakeholder groups.