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Beginner's Guide to Bookkeeping; Bookkeeping for Your Small Business

Bookkeeping is an important tool for success with your small business. Knowing how to keep track of your expenses and income will be essential when it comes to paying taxes and determining the profitability of your business. Most small businesses can handle their own bookkeeping, but even if you use a professional bookkeeping service it is important to understand what information is needed to have an accurate picture of the financial success of your business.

Bookkeeping means keeping track of your expenses and income. This can be done through simple handwritten ledgers or computer software programs, such as QuickBooks. Bookkeeping computer programs can easily help you keep track of your expenses and income, print reports and easily provide the right information to your tax preparer. Bookkeeping is not about tax preparation, but a good system of bookkeeping will help you easily gather the information necessary for your taxes.


Small Business Bookkeeping Software

  • Microsoft Office Accounting Software

  • Peachtree Accounting & Financial Software

  • Simply Accounting by Sage

  • GnuCash (free software ... might be worth a look =])

Related Bookkeeping Articles

Bookkeeping is used to monitor your financial picture and helps you to make business decisions. By keeping track of your expenses and categorizing them as appropriate, you can see which areas of your business spending can be scrutinized, and where you may need to put more attention. Expense categories can include office supplies, advertising, payroll, purchasing, and rent. You can categorize your expenses as direct expenses which are those directly related to your service or product, like materials, or overhead expenses which include your rent and office supplies. Tracking your business assets is also important, like vehicles and computers. Assets should be accounted for separately as they may be depreciated for your tax purposes.

Bookkeepers are not only concerned with the expense side, but also the income side of your business. Keeping track of all money coming into your business is important. Your business may offer different types of services and products. Understanding what income has come in for each will help you analyze your business success.

Bookkeeping requires that you keep all records of expenses and income, to include invoices, deposit slips, credit card receipts and copies of cancelled checks. By filing this documentation that backs up your ledger entries, you can go back to review any errors.

The most important thing to do when establishing your bookkeeping system is to keep personal and business accounts separate. Co-mingling your accounts will create confusion and make it difficult to know how your business is doing financially. Setting up a separate business checking and savings account is essential to successful bookkeeping.

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Here, you will learn how to start a bookkeeping business, where to go for help writing a business plan for your bookkeeping business, and a sampling of bookkeeping jobs

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