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Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Basic Bookkeeping: Why You Need It 5
Chapter 1: So You Want to Do the Books 7
Chapter 2: Getting Down to Bookkeeping Basics 19
Chapter 3: Outlining Your Financial Roadmap with a Chart of Accounts 39
Chapter 4: Looking at Ledgers 57
Chapter 5: Discovering Different Business Types 83
Part II: Recording Day‐to‐Day Business Operations 93
Chapter 6: Planning and Controlling Your Workload 95
Chapter 7: Counting Your Sales 107
Chapter 8: Buying and Tracking Your Purchases 135
Chapter 9: Doing Your Banking 149
Part III: Preparing the Books for Year‐ (or Month‐) End 163
Chapter 10: Adjusting Your Books 165
Chapter 11: Depreciating Your Assets 183
Chapter 12: Adding the Cost of Value Added Tax (VAT) 197
Part IV: Reporting Results and Starting Over 211
Chapter 13: Producing a Profit and Loss Statement 213
Chapter 14: Developing a Balance Sheet 231
Chapter 15: Reporting for Not‐For‐Profit Organisations 249
Chapter 16: Preparing Your Year‐End Accounts 265
Part V: Payroll Preparation and Online Accounts Tools 271
Chapter 17: Employee Payroll and Benefits 273
Chapter 18: Cloud Accounting: The Modern Approach to Bookkeeping 293
Part VI: The Part of Tens 305
Chapter 19: Top Ten Ways to Manage Your Business Cash with Your Books 307
Chapter 20: Top Ten Most Important Accounts for Any Bookkeeper 311
Appendix: Glossary 315
Index 321
