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Abstract: Maintaining financial sustainability over the long term is vital for faith-based organizations since many of them offer services to very needy communities. However, faith-based organizations, particularly in Africa, struggle to sustain the financial resources required to effectively realize their mission. This study sought to establish the degree to which organizational controls affect the financial sustainability of faith-based organizations affiliated to Wycliffe Global Alliance in Africa. This study was anchored on strategic leadership and agency theory and was based on the positivism research paradigm. The study adopted descriptive research design and used primary data collected from 198 leaders serving as directors, heads of departments, and heads of units in faith-based organizations affiliated with Wycliffe Global Alliance in Africa. Descriptive statistics reported means and standard deviations respectively for the independent variables as follows; monitoring controls 3.71 and 0.480, premise controls 3.80 and 0.629, special alert controls 3.79 and 0.647, implementation controls 4.12 and 0.587, and for financial sustainability as the dependent variable 4.33 and 0.753. Multiple linear regression analyses results indicated that the financial sustainability of faith-based organizations affiliated to Wycliffe Global Alliance was highly predicted by balanced organizational controls with the independent variables explaining 38.8 percent of financial sustainability variation. The study concluded that balanced organizational controls if fully utilized and supported could enhance the financial sustainability of faith-based organizations. The study recommends that leaders of faith-based organizations should provide a favourable environment for balanced organizational controls to be effectively practiced in order to strengthen financial sustainability.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.51505/ijebmr.2022.6508
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