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A jargon-free guide for the small business owner or manager
Small Business Accounting is a jargon-free joy for the small business owner or manager, providing practical examples of real businesses to show the reader, step by step, how to record each transaction. This book does not assume that you know anything at all about business records and accounts and gives a system for real businesses to be operated by real business people who want a simple, easy and, above all, quick system of book keeping. Forget about debits and credits, journal entries, ledgers and day books. If you can read a bank statement this book will teach you how to prepare accounts, make cashflow forecasts and prepare a budget. And when you do need to use an accountant, it tells you how best to find a reliable one.


Small Business Accounting includes:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Your bank account
Chapter 3:

Table of Contents
  • 01: introduction
  • 02: case studies
  • 03: your bank account:
  • 04: a simple cashbook;
  • 05: analysis columns: layout;managing your creditors;
  • 06: payments – filing: filing invoices;managing your creditors;
  • 07: payments – cheque book:running totals;old cheque books
  • 08: payments – cashbook:
  • 09: non-allowable expenses:
  • 10: purchase of equipment: scope of this chapter; recording transactions; capital allowance calculations
  • 11: credit cards: scope of this chapter; how to use a credit card for business; bill paid in full; when only part of the bill is paid off; filing;notes on timing
  • 12: petty cash: cheque reimbursement;imprest petty cash system
  • 13: 13 receipts – filing: cash or credit?;
  • 14: receipts – paying-in book: credit business; cash business
  • 15: receipts – cashbook:
  • 16: capital introduced:
  • 17: end of month procedures:
  • 18: VAT; scope of this chapter;
  • 19: wages: scope of this chapter;
  • 20: end of year totals: cashbook totals;adjustment for balances brought forward;further adjustments
  • 21: adjustments for payments:recording the adjustments;possible adjustments
  • 22: adjustments to receipts: debtors;
  • 23: transfer to tax return:
  • 24: trial balance: introduction;
  • 25: final accounts: adjusting payments;
  • 26: budgeting and cash-flow forecasting:
  • 27: costing and pricing: introduction;
  • 28: computerisation: introduction;
  • : appendix 1: ten top tips for choosing an accountant
  • : appendix 2: jargonbuster
  • : appendix 3: stationery list
  • : appendix 4: recording sales of assets in a set of accounts
  • : index

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      Publisher: John Murray Press
      Publication Date: 27/08/2015
      ISBN13: 9781473609174, 978-1473609174
      ISBN10: 1473609178

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Is this the right book for me?

      A jargon-free guide for the small business owner or manager
      Small Business Accounting is a jargon-free joy for the small business owner or manager, providing practical examples of real businesses to show the reader, step by step, how to record each transaction. This book does not assume that you know anything at all about business records and accounts and gives a system for real businesses to be operated by real business people who want a simple, easy and, above all, quick system of book keeping. Forget about debits and credits, journal entries, ledgers and day books. If you can read a bank statement this book will teach you how to prepare accounts, make cashflow forecasts and prepare a budget. And when you do need to use an accountant, it tells you how best to find a reliable one.


      Small Business Accounting includes:

      Chapter 1: Introduction
      Chapter 2: Your bank account
      Chapter 3:

      Table of Contents
      • 01: introduction
      • 02: case studies
      • 03: your bank account:
      • 04: a simple cashbook;
      • 05: analysis columns: layout;managing your creditors;
      • 06: payments – filing: filing invoices;managing your creditors;
      • 07: payments – cheque book:running totals;old cheque books
      • 08: payments – cashbook:
      • 09: non-allowable expenses:
      • 10: purchase of equipment: scope of this chapter; recording transactions; capital allowance calculations
      • 11: credit cards: scope of this chapter; how to use a credit card for business; bill paid in full; when only part of the bill is paid off; filing;notes on timing
      • 12: petty cash: cheque reimbursement;imprest petty cash system
      • 13: 13 receipts – filing: cash or credit?;
      • 14: receipts – paying-in book: credit business; cash business
      • 15: receipts – cashbook:
      • 16: capital introduced:
      • 17: end of month procedures:
      • 18: VAT; scope of this chapter;
      • 19: wages: scope of this chapter;
      • 20: end of year totals: cashbook totals;adjustment for balances brought forward;further adjustments
      • 21: adjustments for payments:recording the adjustments;possible adjustments
      • 22: adjustments to receipts: debtors;
      • 23: transfer to tax return:
      • 24: trial balance: introduction;
      • 25: final accounts: adjusting payments;
      • 26: budgeting and cash-flow forecasting:
      • 27: costing and pricing: introduction;
      • 28: computerisation: introduction;
      • : appendix 1: ten top tips for choosing an accountant
      • : appendix 2: jargonbuster
      • : appendix 3: stationery list
      • : appendix 4: recording sales of assets in a set of accounts
      • : index

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