Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #620399 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
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; and, plan for required taxes due.

Customer Reviews

US Book
Note that this book is written from a US perspective - so if you are in the UK, beware as there are different accounting procedures so not all of the advice in here may be good. I'm sure the basic principles are okay though.

Well Written for Non-Accountants/Bookkeepers
This book is excellent and well written for people who are NEW to bookkeeping/accounting for small business. I especially found the checklists provided (when to pay various Federal and State Taxes, to whom to pay various Federal and State Taxes, when to produce certain financial reports, what to have ready for your Tax Accountant at year end and in what format) to be VERY useful. EXCELLENT reference book for the do-it-yourself bookkeeper.