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Manage the books and your sanity with Britain's leading guide!

Complete and accurate bookkeeping is vital for any business. This guide shows you how to keep the books without becoming overwhelmed by the numbers. Fully updated for the newest accounting practices and software, it walks you through bookkeeping basics, day-to-day operations, year-end reporting, payroll preparation and everything you need to tackle the job with confidence.

  • Account for everything - understand basic accounting methods, work with ledgers, explore the Chart of Accounts and choose your business type
  • From day to day - handle everyday activities such as entering invoices, collecting on cash sales, making and tracking purchases and banking
  • Wrap it up - prepare for month-end or year-end by adjusting books, depreciating your assets and handling VAT correctly
  • Present results - produce a profit and loss statement, develop a balance sheet and prepare year-end accounts
  • Pay your staff - learn to operate an RTI payroll system, collect employee taxes, prepare and post payroll and settle up with HM Revenue & Customs
  • Move to the cloud - explore the benefits and possible risks of moving your bookkeeping functions to the cloud

Open the book and find:

  • Bookkeeping lingo translations
  • Opportunities to test your knowledge
  • Tips on managing your workload
  • Practical ways to reconcile your bank account
  • Information about depreciation
  • How to make business decisions using Profit and Loss statements
  • Reporting processes for not-for-profits
  • Your most important accounts

Manage the books and your sanity with Britain's leading guide!

Complete and accurate bookkeeping is vital for any business. This guide shows you how to keep the books without becoming overwhelmed by the numbers. Fully updated for the newest accounting practices and software, it walks you through bookkeeping basics, day-to-day operations, year-end reporting, payroll preparation and everything you need to tackle the job with confidence.

  • Account for everything - understand basic accounting methods, work with ledgers, explore the Chart of Accounts and choose your business type
  • From day to day - handle everyday activities such as entering invoices, collecting on cash sales, making and tracking purchases and banking
  • Wrap it up - prepare for month-end or year-end by adjusting books, depreciating your assets and handling VAT correctly
  • Present results - produce a profit and loss statement, develop a balance sheet and prepare year-end accounts
  • Pay your staff - learn to operate an RTI payroll system, collect employee taxes, prepare and post payroll and settle up with HM Revenue & Customs
  • Move to the cloud - explore the benefits and possible risks of moving your bookkeeping functions to the cloud

Open the book and find:

  • Bookkeeping lingo translations
  • Opportunities to test your knowledge
  • Tips on managing your workload
  • Practical ways to reconcile your bank account
  • Information about depreciation
  • How to make business decisions using Profit and Loss statements
  • Reporting processes for not-for-profits
  • Your most important accounts
Über den Autor

Jane Kelly, a Chartered Management Accountant and author of Bookkeeping & Accounting All-In-One For Dummies, teaches bookkeeping courses for small businesses.

Paul Barrow is a Chartered Accountant with more than 20 years' consulting, training and writing experience.

Lita Epstein designs and teaches online investing, finance and tax courses.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 DaytöDay 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 NotForProfit Organisations 249

Chapter 16: Preparing Your YearEnd 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Betriebswirtschaft
Genre: Importe, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781119189138
ISBN-10: 1119189136
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kelly, Jane E.
Epstein, Lita
Barrow, Paul
Auflage: 4th UK Edition
Hersteller: John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 236 x 187 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Jane E. Kelly (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2016
Gewicht: 0,653 kg
Artikel-ID: 104503605