Author Overview

Bookkeeping Essentials is designed to be a handy problem solver that you can flip through to get quick answers to your bookkeeping questions - things like how to process payroll, and pay suppliers, and create financial statements. The focus is on issues that arise constantly, such as whether to take an early payment discount, how to assemble a budget, and how to account for sales taxes. I also include commentary throughout the text about how to handle bookkeeping transactions in your accounting software. Further, there is an appendix containing descriptions of the journal entries that you are most likely to encounter.

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Contents

Part One The Basics of Bookkeeping
Chapter 1 Bookkeeping Basics
Chapter 2 Chart of Accounts
Chapter 3 General Ledger and Sub-Ledgers

Part Two Daily Activities
Chapter 4 Payroll
Chapter 5 Purchasing and Payments
Chapter 6 Billing and Collections
Chapter 7 Cash Management
Chapter 8 Inventory
Chapter 9 Fixed Assets
Chapter 10 Debt Accounting

Part Three Creating Financial Statements
Chapter 11 The Trial Balance
Chapter 12 Closing the Books
Chapter 13 Balance Sheet
Chapter 14 Income Statement

Part Four Controls
Chapter 15 Budgeting
Chapter 16 Control Systems

Part Five Other Topics
Chapter 17 Record Keeping
Chapter 18 Cost Reduction Opportunities

Appendix A   Journal Entries
Appendix B Beginning Bookkeeper Checklist