Finance/Accounting assisting with contribution processing?

Hi folks,

We have one staff member who has been our development database coordinator prior to our transition to Tess. Her role has expanded into a lot of other duties and we're trying to find ways to move data entry and contribution processing off her desk.

Our Finance/Accounting department would like to take this over. However we're a little concerned since their focus is essentially on the $$, whereas our Patron Development department has a whole host of actions etc that arise out of how the contribution/membership/acknowledgment is coded etc.

So what I'm asking is - does anyone split out the entry and processing of contributions to Finance/Accounting? How do you coordinate this with Development so that they can maintain checks/balances on what your data entry person is doing? How has it worked for you?

Any info would be great, thanks!

Eleanor



[edited by: Eleanor Finger at 5:26 PM (GMT -6) on 11 May 2011]