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Accurate bookkeeping is crucial to every business – but few people relish the task. This straight–talking guide simplifies every aspect of financial record keeping, walking you through all the basic skills you need. From tracking transactions and keeping ledgers to producing balance sheets and year–end reports, this book makes bookkeeping your best friend in business.
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Master the art and science of bookkeeping the fast and easy way
Bookkeeping may not be fun, and it′s rarely pretty, but you simply cannot run a business without it. This updated edition of Britain′s bestselling guide gets you up and running with the knowledge and skills you need to keep your books balanced, your finances in order and the tax inspector off your back. From tracking transactions and keeping ledgers to producing balance sheets and year–end reports, you′ll master all the important terms, procedures, forms and processes more quickly and easily than you ever thought possible.
Why bother? – understand why it′s so essential to your company′s well–being and future success to organise and manage your books, how it′s done and where to start
Keeping a paper trail – learn how to enter financial transactions in your books and post them to your Nominal Ledger, keep a detailed journal of transactions and set up internal controls for managing your books and your cash
One day at a time – find out how to keep track of day–to–day operations, sales and purchases, as well as adjustments to sales and purchases such as discounts and returns
Keeping the payroll rolling – get the lowdown on setting up and managing payrolls, as well as all the HM Revenue & Customs paperwork involved in hiring a new employee
Closing the books – how to close out monthly, quarterly or yearly accounting periods and calculate and record depreciation, interest payments and receipts
Making it official – learn how to prepare financial reports and profit and loss statements, properly fill out all required tax forms and prepare your books for next year
Open the book and find:
How to create and maintain your company′s financial records
The best ways to keep books up–to–date with technology
Techniques on maintaining employee records
How to calculate your staff′s net pay
Guidance on producing income statements and financial reports
Advice on keeping the tax inspector happy
Learn to:
Keep accurate and complete financial records
Use the latest in bookkeeping software
Produce balance sheets and year–end reports
Manage cash–flow
Keep the tax Inspector happy
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I read Sage for Dummies first by the same author which the two go together very well.
Only problem I had with the current book is that it plugs Sage way too much. Obviously Sage put money up for this and the Sage for Dummies book but it gets plugged way too much.
This book says "Sage Instant" (the cheaper one) is arguably best for a new small business and then goes on in this and the other Sage for dummies that "Sage 50" is the best saying "I bet you hoped you'd spent more money".
Another criticism is it says about DRs and CRs saying they work in a mystical way - they don't! DRs = bring something into an a/c; CRs = taking somethign away from an a/c and if it's a creditor a/c a CR will add to it (like minusing it) and a DR will reduce it (paying it back so again bringing something to it!). I'd suggest you read Business for Advanced GNVQ (Stanley Thornes GNVQ) ISBN 0748735062 which explains this better, although the current title I'm reviewing explains how accounts work in practice much better in all the other areas.
Other than that it the current title really did clear a lot of stuff up in my mind, particularly the use of journals (or the Big Four Journals - Sales, Purchase, cash payments and cash receipts journal) and it was worth it just for that. It was really good at explaining Charts of Accounts. This would be an excellent read for say someone on a year 2 or year 3 of an accountancy degree since it really shows that how these concepts come together in the real world. Obviously it's good for someone learning bookkeeping at college of an entrepreneur who wants to learn more on the topic.
Good read - it's given me lots of ideas for further reading and practical applications.
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