Small Business Accounting
The jargon-free guide to accounts, budgets and forecasts
Published on 27. August 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-4736-0917-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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
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
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Murray Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
202 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4736-0917-4 (9781473609174)
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Person
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.
Content
01: introduction
02: case studies
03: your bank account:
04: a simple cashbook;
05: analysis columns: layout;managing your creditors;
06: payments - filing: filing invoices;managing your creditors;
07: payments - cheque book:running totals;old cheque books
08: payments - cashbook:
09: non-allowable expenses:
10: purchase of equipment: scope of this chapter; recording transactions; capital allowance calculations
11: credit cards: scope of this chapter; how to use a credit card for business; bill paid in full; when only part of the bill is paid off; filing;notes on timing
12: petty cash: cheque reimbursement;imprest petty cash system
13: 13 receipts - filing: cash or credit?;
14: receipts - paying-in book: credit business; cash business
15: receipts - cashbook:
16: capital introduced:
17: end of month procedures:
18: VAT; scope of this chapter;
19: wages: scope of this chapter;
20: end of year totals: cashbook totals;adjustment for balances brought forward;further adjustments
21: adjustments for payments:recording the adjustments;possible adjustments
22: adjustments to receipts: debtors;
23: transfer to tax return:
24: trial balance: introduction;
25: final accounts: adjusting payments;
26: budgeting and cash-flow forecasting:
27: costing and pricing: introduction;
28: computerisation: introduction;
: appendix 1: ten top tips for choosing an accountant
: appendix 2: jargonbuster
: appendix 3: stationery list
: appendix 4: recording sales of assets in a set of accounts
: index
02: case studies
03: your bank account:
04: a simple cashbook;
05: analysis columns: layout;managing your creditors;
06: payments - filing: filing invoices;managing your creditors;
07: payments - cheque book:running totals;old cheque books
08: payments - cashbook:
09: non-allowable expenses:
10: purchase of equipment: scope of this chapter; recording transactions; capital allowance calculations
11: credit cards: scope of this chapter; how to use a credit card for business; bill paid in full; when only part of the bill is paid off; filing;notes on timing
12: petty cash: cheque reimbursement;imprest petty cash system
13: 13 receipts - filing: cash or credit?;
14: receipts - paying-in book: credit business; cash business
15: receipts - cashbook:
16: capital introduced:
17: end of month procedures:
18: VAT; scope of this chapter;
19: wages: scope of this chapter;
20: end of year totals: cashbook totals;adjustment for balances brought forward;further adjustments
21: adjustments for payments:recording the adjustments;possible adjustments
22: adjustments to receipts: debtors;
23: transfer to tax return:
24: trial balance: introduction;
25: final accounts: adjusting payments;
26: budgeting and cash-flow forecasting:
27: costing and pricing: introduction;
28: computerisation: introduction;
: appendix 1: ten top tips for choosing an accountant
: appendix 2: jargonbuster
: appendix 3: stationery list
: appendix 4: recording sales of assets in a set of accounts
: index