Bookkeepers' boot camp
Subtitle: get a grip on accounting basics
By: Angie Mohr, CA, CMA
Edition: 3rd edition.
Series: 101 for small business; Self-Counsel Press business series; Numbers 101 for small business; Self-Counsel business series
Publisher: Self Counsel Press Inc.; Self-Counsel Press, (a division of) International Self-Counsel Press Ltd.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781770402522
Subjects: Accounting; Bookkeeping; Small business
Description: This is the first book in the Numbers 101 for Small Business series. It will show you the essentials of record keeping for a small business and will show why it's necessary to track information. The book will give you a greater understanding of the purpose and process of record keeping and a deeper understanding of your business.
Notes: Issued also in electronic formats.
Table of contents: title: The basics. Getting started ; A brief look at the origins of bookkeeping ; Important concepts ; Setting up the record keeping system ; Making bookkeeping easier with technology ; The balance sheet ; The income statement ; The cash flow statement; title: Intermediate topics. Recording the sales cycle ; Recording the purchase cycle ; Inventory ; Capital assets ; Leases and loans ; Transactions between the company and its owners ; Remittances to the government ; Maintaining a petty cash system ; Reconciling the bank ; When the damn thing just won't balance ; When your books are already a mess; title: Advanced issues. The role of the external accountant ; Budgeting: planning for the future ; Monitoring cash flow: how not to run out of money ; A brief look at foreign currency ; Tax planning ; Graduation.