Accounting & Bookkeeping Practices

Whether you're bookkeeping by hand or on the computer, we'll provide you with best practices to help you keep track of your cash flow.

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All Bookkeeping Essentials Cost-Volume-Profit
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The Importance of Credit Reports in Business
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LIFO or FIFO for Inventory Accounting?
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Here Are Some Key Bookkeeping Tips for Small Business Owners
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Should You Use Periodic or Perpetual Inventory for Your Business?
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Accounts Payable and Their Effect on Profitability
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8 Recordkeeping Tips for Small Businesses
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What Is Startup Capital?
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How Net Cash Flow Is Used in Business
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What Is IFRS?
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Point-of-Sale (POS) Systems for Inventory Management
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How Asset-Based Loan Financing Works
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The Rules of Depreciation vs Expensing Purchases on Your Income Taxes
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An Overview of Accounting Records
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Tracking Outflows With a Cash Disbursement Journal
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Learn About the 3 Different Types of Cost Objects and How They Work
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Learn How Budgetary Slack Diminishes Corporate Performance
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What Are Retained Earnings?
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10 Great Mobile Apps to Manage Your Business Finances
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Should You Use a Cash or Accrual Accounting System?
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A Beginner's Guide to Accounting Information Systems for Business
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8 Steps a Small Business Should Take to Complete the Accounting Cycle
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How to Prepare a Company Values Statement as Part of the Business Plan
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The 8 Best Accounting Software for Restaurants in 2021
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Lower Inventory and Storage Costs by Using the EOQ
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The 3 Types of Accounting in Small Business
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What is a Limited Liability Company?
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What Tax Forms to Use to Pay Taxes as a Sole Proprietorship
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What Is Cost in a Business Firm?
Image shows a woman looking at a book. Title reads: "When to debit & when to credit an account" and the pages in the book read: "Accounting journal: DEBIT: asset accounts, expense accounts. CREDIT: Liability accounts, owner's equity, revenue accounts"
How to Create an Accounting Journal Entry
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Source Documents Provide Accounting Paper Trails
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Setting up a Small Business Chart of Accounts
Business Financial Statement
You Need to Prepare These Financial Statements at the Cycle's End
This illustration shows The 5 Most Common Types of Adjusting Entries, including accrued revenue, accrued expenses, unearned revenues, prepaid expenses, depreciation
Making Adjustments in Accounting Journals
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Accounting: Closing Entries in 4 Steps
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How to Construct the General Ledger for Your Small Business
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Bookkeeping Is a Powerful Way to Lower Costs of Running Your Business
Image shows a woman filling out an accounting ledger, which has three columns and three rows. The first row reads: "particulars, debit amount, credit amount". The second row reads: "Cash account to capital account (being cash brought in as capital" and both the debit and credit amount reads 50,000. The third row reads: "Bank account to cash account (being cash deposited into the bank)" and both the debit and credit amount are 20,000.
How to Prepare a Trial Balance for General Ledger Entries in 7 Steps
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Here Is an Example of a Bookkeeping Entry When Buying on Credit
Woman doing the books at a restaurant
How to Set Up and Manage a Petty Cash Account
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Bookkeeping and Accounting for Small Business
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Recording Cash Bookkeeping Entries
How to Calculate the Intrinsic Value of Preferred Stock
Bookkeeping Entries for Inventory Transactions
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How to Record Cash Sales When Offering a Discount
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Which Asset Accounts Should Be in Your Chart of Accounts?
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Example of a Bookkeeping Double-Entry When Selling on Credit
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What Are Debits and Credits?
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What is Best: Single-Entry or Double-Entry Bookkeeping?
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The 8 Best Accounting Software for Nonprofits of 2021
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What Is Leverage?
Image shows a piece of paper folded in half; one half is labeled "Fixed costs" and the other is "Variable costs". Under "Fixed costs" it reads: "The costs associated with your business's product that must be paid regardless of how much you sell: rent for office space or storefront; weekly payroll; equipment depreciation." Under "variable costs" it reads "the costs directly related to the sales volume of your business: delivery/shipping charges; sales commissions; advertising and publicity." Title reads: "Fixed costs vs. variable costs"
What Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Fixed and Variable Costs
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Learn How to Calculate a Breakeven Point with This Helpful Formula
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Here's the Lowdown on Direct and Indirect Costs in Product Pricing
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Here Are the Reasons Why Gross and Contribution Margins Are Different
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What Is Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis and How Do Changes Affect Profit?
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Here Is What You Need to Know About Pricing Products Using Markup
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What Financial Ratios Measure Business Risk?
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What Is the Contribution Margin?
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Do You Know Where Your Break-Even Point Is?
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Defining and Calculating Cost-Plus Pricing
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What Does the Contribution Margin Ratio Reveal?