Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 657.2 EAN: 9781419584381 ISBN: 1419584383 Label: Kaplan Business Manufacturer: Kaplan Business Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: January 02, 2007 Publisher: Kaplan Business Release Date: January 02, 2007 Sales Rank: 116338 Studio: Kaplan Business
The premier resource for basic bookkeeping and business record management, Keeping the Books is a comprehensive, yet down to earth, treatment of one of the most important, yet often neglected, aspects of running a business. User-friendly and packed with easy-to-understand illustrations, worksheets, and forms, this popular financial reference tool is completely updated, and replete with the variety of IRS forms that entrepreneurs have to be familiar with. From updating car and transportation expenses to exploding the myths around independent contractors, the author presents everything a small company needs to know to maintain proper records.
Following the roadmap outlined in Keeping the Books, entrepreneurs will learn how to: · Prepare and analyze financial statements to stay in touch with the heartbeat of their business · Set up bookkeeping systems to keep track of financial details · Maintain the required IRS records necessary to stay out of trouble · Plan for required taxes due
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Rating: - Great Resource
Great resource and training tool for bookkeepers. Easy to understand and covers a wide range of information that is very useful for bookkeepers and accountants.
Rating: - good for generic business purposes
This book is good for the basics in bookkeeping. The blank sample forms were useful for me.
Rating: - excellent resource
This book has been a great guide tool.
Helps you understand what you should have for your business even if you have no accounting experience. Very step by step and leads you in the right direction to follow up and increase knowledge.
Rating: - Great book for small business owners....
This is one of my two favorite accounting books for small business owners. The other is "Small Business Accounting Simplified" by Daniel Sitarz. These books present a lot of the same information, but they have slightly different perspectives on small business accounting and I think both viewpoints are useful and complimentary. Establishing your accounting system is serious business, so I would consider purchasing both. It's a small investment considering how important and time consuming this ... Read More
Rating: - Your Business at a Glance
This is an excellent book that teaches you to chart: where you would like to go on your business journey; where you are; and what you need to do to adjust your journey towards your profit goals.
Long before reading this book, I had asked an Accountant the difference between fixed and variable assets - he really didn't answer my question. In fact, he seemed to be annoyed that I would ask such a question.
But this book gives the answer in a very succinct description, with ... Read More