Accurate and complete bookkeeping is crucial to any business owner, but it's also important to those who work with the business, such as investors, financial institutions, and employees. People both inside and outside the business all depend on a bookkeeper's accurate recordings.
Bookkeeping For Dummies provides the easy and painless way to master this crucial art. You'll be able to manage your own finances to save money and grow your business. This straightforward, no-nonsense guide shows you the basics of bookkeeping--from recording transactions to producing balance sheets and year-end reports. Discover how to:
Outline your financial road map with a chart of accounts
Keep journals of cash transactions
Set up your computerized books
Control your books, your records, and your money
Buy and track your purchases
Record sales returns and allowances
Determine your employee [is "employee" necessary here?] staff's net pay
Maintain employee records
Prepare your books for year's end
Report results and start over
Produce an income statement
Complete year-end payroll and reports
This guide features tips and tricks for managing your business cash with your books and also profiles important accounts for any bookkeeper. There's no question that bookkeepers must be detail-oriented, meticulous, and accurate. Bookkeeping For Dummies shows you how to keep track of your business's financial well-being and ensure future success!
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Do not get this book:
If you really want to learn bookkeeping, this is not the book for you. First, it is error-filled. Second, the book provides questions in proceeding chapters about areas that have not been covered. Third, the questions are beyond description. Let's just say, based on the poorly-written sections, you will not be able to understand what is being asked. Last and worst, the concepts are not tied together so that the reader can get a complete picture of the entire process. I cannot emphasize this enough: DO NOT... more info
Great book:
Very easy to understand compared to other books I've read on this subject, very happy with it.
Quickbooks for Dummies:
This book doesn't help you if you have the Mac Version of Quickbooks. I probably should have checked that out before buying it but I assumed that the functions would be the same. Silly me, they are not! Just something to consider...
Good to start:
This is a very good book to start understanding the subject of accounting and bookkeeping.
