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Fully updated for a UK audience Bookkeeping Workbook For Dummies is the easiest way to get up to speed in all the basics of bookkeeping: from setting up a bookkeeping system and recording transactions to managing payroll, preparing profit and loss statements, tackling tax and filing month and year end reports finances. Expert author Jane Kelly guides you step–by–step through every aspect of financial record and offers quick tips to help you work through the interactive exercises and practical problems encouraging you to find your own route to a solution and sharpen your skills along the way. Whether you’re studying on a bookkeeping course or balancing the books in a small business this book is the fastest way to get started.
Bookkeeping Workbook For Dummies, UK Edition includes:
Part I: Exploring Bookkeeping Basics
Chapter 1: Deciphering the Basics
Chapter 2: Designing Your Bookkeeping System
Chapter 3: Sorting Out Your Business Road Map
Part II: Putting it All on Paper
Chapter 4: Looking at the Big Picture
Chapter 5: Journaling — The Devil’s in the Details
Chapter 6: Designing Controls for Your Books, Your Records, and Your Money
Part III: Tracking Day–to–Day Business Operations with Your Books
Chapter 7: Purchasing Goods and Tracking Your Purchases
Chapter 8: Calculating and Monitoring Sales
Chapter 9: Employee Payroll and Benefits
Part IV: Getting Ready for Year’s (Or Month’s) End
Chapter 10: Depreciating Your Assets
Chapter 11: Paying and Collecting Interest
Chapter 12: Checking Your Books
Chapter 13: Checking and Correcting Your Books
Part V: Reporting Results and Starting Over
Chapter 14: Developing a Balance Sheet
Chapter 15: Producing a Profit and Loss Statement
Chapter 16: Reporting for Not–For–Profit Organizations
Chapter 17: Doing Your Business Taxes
Chapter 18: Completing Year–End Payroll and Reports
Chapter 19: Getting Ready for a New Bookkeeping Year
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Chapter 20: Top Ten Checklist for Managing Your Cash
Chapter 21: Top Ten Accounts You Should Monitor
Chapter 22: Top Ten Problems You Should Practice
From the Back Cover
- Get to grips with bookkeeping basics
- Sharpen your skills with interactive exercises and demonstration problems
- Perform a wide variety of financial transactions
Design a bookkeeping system that works for you – and stay on top of your transactions
It′s easy to feel intimidated by the ins and outs of bookkeeping – day–to–day and at year end – but with an understanding of the basics, it needn′t be tricky. This no–nonsense workbook leads you through every stage of preparing and maintaining a ledger so you know exactly what your assets are doing and how to maximise your profits. Packed with insider tips, checklists and practical bookkeeping exercises, there′s really no better time to get things in balance.
Discover
- Ways to record, track and adjust bookkeeping entries
- How to calculate cost trends
- Advice on tackling taxes, interest rates and depreciation
- Tips on drawing up accurate profit and loss statements – and analysing what they mean
- Sample invoices, credit notes and calculation tables
The Dummies Workbook Way
- Plain–English explanations
- Step–by–step procedures
- Hands–on practice exercises
- Ample workspace to work out problems
- Tear–out Cheat Sheet
- A dash of humour and fun
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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I this book is written much more for a US reader than a UK reader. Obviously it still contains theory that is pertinent to accounting needs everywhere but you have to get thru a lot of US stuff to get to it (everything is in dollars, and set up for how accounts are done in the US - confusing for those new to bookeeping). Obviously Tax in the UK is different to the US.., but it spends a lot of time talking about this. Terminology used is very US too, again, confusing to someone new to bookeeping.
I also found it frustrating that a lot of the first entries in the book relate to the difference between accrual and cash accounting methods. As far as I am aware Cash methods are never used but it spends a lot of time (and gives u exercises to do on both methods) on these methods rather than just telling u how to do the one method. Again I think this could be confusing to a person new to bookeeping.
I have returned the book and bought Frank Wood's Book-keeping and Accounts instead who is a well known UK bookeeping/accounts author . Its much more professionally written, less confusing and takes u through the syllabus for both OCR, IAB and AAT exams.
I also found it frustrating that a lot of the first entries in the book relate to the difference between accrual and cash accounting methods. As far as I am aware Cash methods are never used but it spends a lot of time (and gives u exercises to do on both methods) on these methods rather than just telling u how to do the one method. Again I think this could be confusing to a person new to bookeeping.
I have returned the book and bought Frank Wood's Book-keeping and Accounts instead who is a well known UK bookeeping/accounts author . Its much more professionally written, less confusing and takes u through the syllabus for both OCR, IAB and AAT exams.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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If you are considering running a small business, or are doing so now and struggling with the bookkeeping, then this is the book for you. It explains a huge range of business accounting subjects, augmented by exercises for you to work through to ensure you understand what you have learned, and can use it in practice. This last stage is crucial in making the knowledge stick. It provides an impressive amount of detail throughout, and backs it up with plenty of examples.
Many business-related "For Dummies" books are focussed on America. They go on about federal taxes, state regulations, trading with Canada, and so on, all of which is irrelevant to the UK. Thankfully, this one is very much about UK business. Its choice of fonts does mean it uses a rather whacky pound sign, but it is written in British English, and that's a definite plus. I am not a huge fan of "For Dummies" books, but I do like this one. It is informative, extensive, thorough, it gets on with it, and is well worth the money.
Many business-related "For Dummies" books are focussed on America. They go on about federal taxes, state regulations, trading with Canada, and so on, all of which is irrelevant to the UK. Thankfully, this one is very much about UK business. Its choice of fonts does mean it uses a rather whacky pound sign, but it is written in British English, and that's a definite plus. I am not a huge fan of "For Dummies" books, but I do like this one. It is informative, extensive, thorough, it gets on with it, and is well worth the money.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I'm doing an accounting course, and was struggling with my text books, which aren't very user friendly I find. I just felt I needed more practical tasks to help me with my learning, and this seemed perfect. I love the way the 'Dummies' series works, it really seems to get the information fixed in your head more, and this book has plenty of exercises to help with this too. Things seem much easier now - if I pass the course, it will be down to this book!
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