Small Business Accounting : Teach Yourself

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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: A simple cashbook

Chapter 4: Analysis columns

Chapter 5: Payments - filing

Chapter 6: Payments - cheque-book

Chapter 7: Payments - cashbook

Chapter 8: Non-allowable expenses

Chapter 9: Purchase of equipment

Chapter 10: Credit cards

Chapter 11: Petty cash

Chapter 12: Receipts - filing

Chapter 13: Receipts - paying-in book

Chapter 14: Receipts - cashbook

Chapter 15: Capital introduced

Chapter 16: End of month procedures

Chapter 17: VAT

Chapter 18: Wages

Chapter 19: End of year totals

Chapter 20: Adjustments for payments

Chapter 21: Adjustments to receipts

Chapter 22: Transfer to tax return

Chapter 23: Trial balance

Chapter 24: Final accounts

Chapter 25: Budgeting and cash-flow forecasting

Chapter 26: Costing and pricing

Chapter 27: Computerization

About the Author

Andy Lymer is Head of Department of Accounting and Finance at University of Birmingham. He also heads up Lymer & Associates, undertaking numerous research, consultancy and publishing projects.