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The easy way to get a handle on bookkeeping
Accurate and complete bookkeeping is crucial to any business
owner, but it's also important to those who work with the business,
such as investors, financial institutions, and employees.
Bookkeeping For Dummies provides the easy and painless way
to master this critical skill.
You'll get clear and concise information on keeping track of
transactions, figuring out balance sheets, keeping ledgers or
journals, creating financial statements, and operating accounts for
businesses, along with practices and examples to hone your skills.
Plus, the bonus CD includes samples of bookkeeping forms, working
papers, letters, resources, and spreadsheets.
Keeping track of transactions
Figuring out the balance sheet
Keeping a ledger and journal
Creating financial statements
Operating accounts for businesses
Recognizing assets and liabilities
Up-to-date tax information
Changes in small business regulations
Additional and complementary examples
Demonstration problems
True/false and multiple-choice questions and scenarios
Whether you're a professional or a student looking to expand
your skills, Bookkeeping Kit For Dummies is a one-stop
resource for anyone interested in this ever-growing occupation.
Auteur
Lita Epstein, MBA, designs online courses about reading financial reports, investing, and taxes. She's the author of Reading Financial Reports For Dummies and also writes periodically for AOL's Daily Finance.
Résumé
The easy way to get a handle on bookkeeping
Accurate and complete bookkeeping is crucial to any business owner, but it's also important to those who work with the business, such as investors, financial institutions, and employees. Bookkeeping For Dummies provides the easy and painless way to master this critical skill.
You'll get clear and concise information on keeping track of transactions, figuring out balance sheets, keeping ledgers or journals, creating financial statements, and operating accounts for businesses, along with practices and examples to hone your skills. Plus, the bonus CD includes samples of bookkeeping forms, working papers, letters, resources, and spreadsheets.
Contenu
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Conventions Used in This Book 2
Foolish Assumptions 3
What You're Not to Read 3
How This Book Is Organized 3
Part I: Basic Bookkeeping: Why You Need It 4
Part II: Keeping a Paper Trail 4
Part III: Tracking Day-to-Day Business Operations with Your Books 4
Part IV: Preparing the Books for Year's (or Month's) End 4
Part V: Reporting Results and Starting Over 5
Part VI: The Part of Tens 5
Part VII: Appendixes 5
Icons Used in This Book 5
Where to Go From Here 6
Part I: Basic Bookkeeping: Why You Need It 7
Chapter 1: So You Want to Do the Books 9
Delving Into Bookkeeping Basics 9
Picking your accounting method 10
Understanding assets, liabilities, and equity 10
Introducing debits and credits 10
Charting your bookkeeping course 11
Recognizing the Importance of an Accurate Paper Trail 11
Maintaining a ledger 12
Keeping journals 12
Consider computerizing 12
Instituting internal controls 13
Using Bookkeeping's Tools to Manage Daily Finances 13
Maintaining inventory 13
Tracking sales 14
Handling payroll 14
Running Tests for Accuracy 14
Proving out your cash 15
Testing your balance 15
Doing bookkeeping corrections 15
Finally Showing Off Your Financial Success 15
Preparing financial reports 16
Paying taxes 16
Chapter 2: Getting Down to Bookkeeping Basics 17
Bookkeepers: The Record Keepers of the Business World 17
Basic Bookkeeping Lingo 18
Accounts for the balance sheet 19
Accounts for the income statement 19
Other common bookkeeping terms 20
Practice: Account Basics 21
Pedaling through the Accounting Cycle 23
Tackling the Big Decision: Cash-Basis or Accrual Accounting 25
Waiting for funds with cash-basis accounting 25
Recording right away with accrual accounting 26
Practice: Accrual versus Cash Accounting 27
Seeing Double with Double-Entry Bookkeeping 29
Differentiating Debits and Credits 31
Practice: Double-Entry Accounting 32
Answers to Problems on the Basics 34
Chapter 3: Outlining Your Financial Road Map with a Chart of Accounts 39
Getting to Know the Chart of Accounts 39
Starting with the Balance Sheet Accounts 41
Tackling assets 42
Laying out your liabilities 45
Eyeing the equity 47
Tracking the Income Statement Accounts 48
Recording the money you make: Revenue 49
Tracking the cost of sales 50
Acknowledging the money you spend: Expense accounts 50
Setting Up Your Chart of Accounts 53
Part II: Keeping a Paper Trail 55
Chapter 4: The General Ledger: A One-Stop Summary of Your Business Transactions 57
The Eyes and Ears of a Business: Looking at the General Ledger 57
Developing Entries for the Ledger 58
Practice: Summaries for General Ledger 62
Posting Entries to the Ledger 65
The Cash account 65
The Accounts Receivable account 66
The Accounts Payable account 66
The balance sheet 67
The Sales account 67
Adjusting for Ledger Errors 69
Practice: Posting to the General Ledger 69
Using Computerized Transactions to Post and Adjust in the General Ledger 74
Answers to Problems on Ledgers 76
Chapter 5: Keeping Journals 81
Establishing a Transaction's Point of Entry 81
When Cash Changes Hands: Juggling the Cash Accounts Journals 82
Keeping track of incoming cash 82
Following outgoing cash 84
Practice: Cash Receipts and Cash Disbursements Journals 86 <p>...