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Whether you’re a small business owner or just want to understand your 401(k) statements, a basic understanding of accounting practices is important for anyone who handles money. Knowing how to balance the books and stay in the black is vital for keeping a business afloat or keeping your checkbook balanced.
If you need to keep the books in order, this new edition of Accounting For Dummies helps you get a handle on all those columns of numbers. It offers fully up-to-date coverage of accounting basics and includes all the tools and tips you need to:
Make sense of bookkeeping basics
Read a financial statement
Manage budgets for a better bottom line
Analyze business strengths and weaknesses
Evaluate accounting methods and business structures
John Tracy, Certified Public Accountant and former professor of accounting, presents everything you need to know to master modern accounting. Packed with practical guidance and real-world scenarios, this handy guide covers it all:
Making and reporting profit
Reporting a company’s financial condition
Preparing financial reports
Budgeting profit and cash flow
Choosing and implementing accounting methods
How to read a financial report
Audits, accounting fraud, and audit failure
How to decipher accounting jargon
And savvy ways businesses use accounting
From balance sheets, to income statements, to inventory, almost every aspect of modern business requires basic accounting techniques. You’ll learn it all here. Plus, this new edition covers the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, recent accounting fraud scandals, the establishment of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and the new financial reporting standards for stock options and financial derivatives.
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Business, Nonfiction, Accounting, Inventories, Financial statementsShowing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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Accounting For Dummies
2008, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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047039269X 9780470392690
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Accounting for Dummies.
January 2001, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding
in English
0613915550 9780613915557
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Accounting for Dummies
January 15, 2001, For Dummies
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in English
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Accounting for dummies
1997, IDG Books Worldwide, Hungry Minds Inc
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0764550144 9780764550140
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"Most folks are lousy bookkeepers just because they really don't do much bookkeeping."
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Learn the basics of practical accounting easily and painlessly with Accounting For Dummies, 4th Edition, which features new information on accounting methods and standards to keep you up to date. With this guide, you can avoid accounting fraud, minimize confusion, maximize profits, and make sense of accounting basics with this plain-English guide to your accountant's language. Understand how to manage inventory, report income and expenses for public or private companies, evaluate profit margins, analyze business strengths and weaknesses, and manage budgets for a better bottom line.
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