Here are some guidelines for preparing helpful financial reports. No one is interested in that level of accuracy, not even the members of the finance committee. The accounts must be kept to the penny, and computers do that fantastically well. But all reports get rounded to the dollar, at least. Because humans do not absorb strings of digits well, we need to lop off the least meaningful of them.
Some accounts get consolidated.
For example, you may be keeping track separately of a phone line dedicated to fax and computer, a monthly charge for internet access, an account for local telephone charges, and a separate account for long distance. Another area that almost always gets consolidated is personnel expenses, benefits, employment related taxes, etc. They need to be isolated in the accounts, but in all the reports they get summarized. The point to emphasize is that we need to distinguish between what we need as accountants in the way of details and what the church leadership or the committees need in the way of information. The canvass budget and the financial reports need to be compatible.