Accounting and Tax Guide (Page 16)
What Are Assets and Liabilities
Making a profit in a business is derived from several different areas. It can get a little complicated because just as in our personal lives, business is run on credit as well. Many businesses sell their products to their customers on credit. Accountants use an asset account called accounts receivable to record the total amount owed to the business by its customers who haven't paid the balance in full yet. Much of the time, a business hasn't collected its... ❯❯❯
Understanding Balance sheet
A balance sheet is a quick picture of the financial condition of a business at a specific period in time. The activities of a business fall into two separate groups that are reported by an accountant. They are profit-making activities, which includes sales and expenses. This can also be referred to as operating activities. There are also financing and investing activities that include securing money from debt and equity sources of capital, returning... ❯❯❯
Benefits of Bookkeeping Outsourcing Online for Accounting Firms
Bookkeeping is a monotonous task for accounting firms. It takes long and tedious hours to maintain the accounts properly. On the other note, this can be a very expensive matter as it involves giving high amount of salaries with add-ons to your accountants. A variety of companies have trained accountant for bookkeeping. But their cost to the company is so high that it becomes impossible for the firm to continue with them. For small business ventures,... ❯❯❯
Bookkeeping Rates Can Help You Fix the Amount That You Have to Spend
It is that time of the year again when you have to pay your taxes and this must be giving you sleepless nights. So, now you must be hunting for an accounting firm that will do all the tiresome work for you and help you in paying your taxes in time. There are certain things that you must check out regarding the services provided by the firm that you hire to do your tax calculating and accounting works. Bookkeeping rates are very competitive and so you must... ❯❯❯
Bookkeeping Software
The process of Bookkeeping is cumbersome. Small human errors can cause big damage to the company. Computers have made this hectic process very easy. Computerized Bookkeeping simplifies the Bookkeeping and accounting procedures. Speed, accuracy, automation and versatility make computers better accountant than humans, and provide fast and accurate processing of transactions. In manual Bookkeeping each entry has to be entered separately in various books of... ❯❯❯
Freelance Bookkeeping
Freelancing is a common way for people to earn a living these days. The advent of Internet has shrunk the world into a global village, and geography is often irrelevant to a position. Freelancers are doing a great job in every other industry and the employers have realized the true potential of freelancing. There are several advantages for companies in opting for freelancers rather than having their own staff. As the freelancers work from their own home... ❯❯❯
Bookkeeping Tips
Bookkeeping is the process of maintaining books of accounts involving daily transactions. Bookkeeping indicates the exact position of business finances. Bookkeeping can be done manually or through a computerized system. Manual bookkeeping is doable for beginners and small business firms, but as the business develops, a computerized system of maintaining accounts will be beneficial. When it comes to bookkeeping, there are certain things to be taken care... ❯❯❯
Free Small Business Accounting Software
Free small business accounting software primarily focuses on assets. Assets may be described as valuable resources owned by a business, which were acquired at a measurable money cost. As an economic resource, they satisfy three requirements. In the first place, the resource must be valuable. A resource is valuable if it is cash/ convertible into cash; or it can provide future benefits to the operations of the firm. Secondly, the resource must be owned.... ❯❯❯
Optimizing Your Cash Flow With Proper Accounts Receivable Management
Businesses miss on growth opportunities and even close their doors every day, not because they aren’t profitable enough, but because they are strangled by poor cash flow. The problem is that while their profit and loss statement shows success, their bank account cries poor. Excessive money tied up in delinquent receivables, bad checks, and bad debt write-offs, rob businesses of valuable cash flow, handcuffing their ability to grow or even stay in business... ❯❯❯
Microsoft Moves to Small Business Accounting/Retail Market - Stakes and Thoughts
In this small article we will be looking at the new opportunities for Microsoft Small Business Server specialists, but rather look at the global business strategy and possible ways of future ERP modules standardizing and interoperability. This is important to get into consideration for midsize and large corporate business IT decision makers. Let’s look at the chronology and possible future development. • Great Plains Software acquisition. When Microsoft... ❯❯❯
Finding Accounting Services in Your Area
What is the best way to find accounting services in your area? Whenever I look for any service, there are certain processes I go through. Though services may vary, many of the strategies I use to find different ones are pretty much identical. The best thing you can do when seeking accounting services in your area is to do your homework. Do some research so that you know what your options are inside the scope of what exactly you want and at what price you... ❯❯❯
Business Accounting: 7 Steps To The Best Software Solution
It is important to know in business where money is coming in and where it is going out. As such, accounting is one of the most vital processes in any business. It is even more important than developing products and selling. The management of the flow of revenues and expenditures is what ultimately makes a business fail or succeed. Accounting is simply called the language of business. The requirements of every business may vary, but the general requirement... ❯❯❯
Retail Business Accounting Software: A Great Help
Retail shops are nearly always teeming with people. They come in a large number and on a busy day, during peak hours, it might become almost impossible to deal with so many customers. The task of managing accounts in such a situation can be really tough due to the sheer variety of the products people buy. Therefore, for a retail shop owner it is very important that he knows what has been sold for how much and when so as to keep his business profitable.... ❯❯❯
Four Symptoms Your Small Business Accounting System Doesn't Work
Every year about this time, I see too many accounting systems that don’t work… QuickBooks and PeachTree and Microsoft Small Business Accounting programs that don’t do what their small business users want or need. Sometimes, people know their accounting systems don’t work. And they don’t care. But, sadly, sometimes, the struggling small business person doesn’t even know his or her system isn’t working until it’s too late. Until the business fails because... ❯❯❯
Business Accounting and The Importance of Keeping Good Books
There has probably been no great accountant turned entrepreneur then Capitalist then Rockefeller who used his accounting skills to take over the entire Oil Industry back in the day. He kept immaculate books and started out as a promising young accountant. When he noticed competitors he would often ask them to join him and show him his books and costs. Why they were simply blown away and they knew they could not compete with his low costs and so they... ❯❯❯
Top 5 Accounting Software for Small Business
1) Intuit QuickBooks Accounting Software Quickbooks is a popular full featured accounting and payroll program designed for small businesses - or, I should say, a small business accounting software series. QuickBooks is available in Basic, Online, Pro, and Premier editions; the Pro Edition of this accounting program includes management tools such as a Vehicle Mileage Tracker and a Cash Flow Projector. 2) Simply Accounting Accounting Software Full... ❯❯❯
Bookkeeping Hiring Tips
In today’s transient and fast paced world, it’s getting harder and harder to find qualified, competent people who not only know their stuff but can be trusted to handle your business’s monies. All too often you hear stories about inexperienced so called bookkeepers who either messed up someone’s books or stuck their hand in the cookie jar and helped themselves to thousands or millions of dollars. Exact Accounting Services has listed 7 of the most... ❯❯❯
Tips on Book Keeping and Reporting on the Club Financial Affairs
Annually a report must be presented to the members on the clubs money affairs and financial position. The form of the report presented will depend on the size of the club and the volume of its activities. In the case of a club with a few members, and of which all transactions are for cash, a statement of receipts and payments will be sufficient, but in the case of a big club an income and expenditure statement and also a balance sheet are desirable. The... ❯❯❯
Sample Company File in QuickBooks - Valuable Tool for Self-Study
Have you ever wondered what would happen in your QuickBooks file if you performed certain operations, but were too afraid to try? Did you know that you can experiment with your ideas, and not make a mess in your QuickBooks file? When you installed your QuickBooks file, you also installed Sample Company files. Intuit designed these so that you could experiment with any idea or concept you have, and not take a chance messing up your own file. Best Way to... ❯❯❯
Standard Cost Accounting in Determining the Estimate Versus Actual
Cost accounting in manufacturing answers the simple question: “Am I making money on this job, and if not then why not?”. Cost accounting is a bridge between financial and management accounting and is a technique used to address the demands of both. It is a systematic application that takes all events in the supply chain and translates them into financial values for analyses by various people both inside and outside the company operations. The most... ❯❯❯
