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Informationen zum Autor Steven M. Bragg, CPA , has been the chief financial officer or controller of four companies, as well as a consulting manager at Ernst & Young and an auditor at Deloitte. He is the author of over forty books primarily targeted toward controllers and their needs. Bragg received a master's degree in finance from Bentley College, an MBA from Babson College, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maine. Klappentext Get quick answers to all your bookkeeping questions Presenting a question and answer format for the most common problems arising from the multitude of areas a bookkeeper may address during the working day, Bookkeeping Essentials: How to Succeed as a Bookkeeper provides complete, easy-to-navigate coverage with concise explanations and hundreds of supporting examples. This reliable reference goes anywhere you go-to a client's office, on a business trip, or to an important lunch meeting-covering topics you'll be encountering constantly, such as: What a journal entry is and where you record it Calculating payroll, buying from suppliers, handling cash receipts, and tracking inventory How to create financial statements How to ensure your transactions are as error-free as possible Reducing expenses And much more! Packed with checklists, samples, and worked-out solutions to a wide variety of typical situations, Bookkeeping Essentials is the handy problem-solver that gives you the helpful information you want right now , in the quick-reference format you need. Zusammenfassung The handy problem-solver with helpful information for today's busy bookkeepersBookkeeping Essentials: How to Succeed as a Bookkeeper is the handy problem-solver that gives today's busy bookkeepers and accountants the helpful information they need in a quick-reference format. Whether in public practice or private industry, professionals will always have this reliable reference tool at their fingertips.* Packed with practical techniques and rules of thumb for analyzing, evaluating, and solving the day-to-day problems every accountant faces* Helps bookkeepers and accountants quickly pinpoint what to look for, what to watch out for, what to do, and how to do it* Offers hundreds of explanations supported by a multitude of examples, tables, charts, and ratiosFilled with dozens of accounting best practices, Bookkeeping Essentials is a powerful companion for the ever-changing world of today's accountant and bookkeeper. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Part One The Basics of Bookkeeping 1 Chapter 1 Bookkeeping Basics 3 Chapter 2 Chart of Accounts 15 Chapter 3 General Ledger and Subledgers 29 Part Two Daily Activities 37 Chapter 4 Payroll 39 Chapter 5 Purchasing and Payments 79 Chapter 6 Billing and Collections 99 Chapter 7 Cash Management 121 Chapter 8 Inventory 135 Chapter 9 Fixed Assets 155 Chapter 10 Debt Accounting 169 Part Three Creating Financial statements 173 Chapter 11 The Trial Balance 175 Chapter 12 Closing the Books 185 Chapter 13 Balance Sheet 193 Chapter 14 Income Statement 205 Part Four Controls 219 Chapter 15 Budgeting 221 Chapter 16 Control Systems 247 Part Five Other Topics 265 Chapter 17 Record Keeping 267 Chapter 18 Cost Reduction Opportunities 277 Appendices 297 Appendix A Journal Entries 299 Appendix B Beginning Bookkeeper Checklist 317 Glossary 321 About the Author 327 Index 329 ...
