If You Are Considering A Career In Accounting There Are A Lot Of Choices
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Accounting careers open the door to an entire world of options. You can choose from many different types of careers and opportunities. And once you settle on which career or opportunity you’d like to pursue. you have a world of options for which company you want to work for. Hence, you have variety in what [...]
How To Use Purchase Orders To Track Purchases
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A purchase order is a document, commercial in nature, issued by a purchaser to a seller, informing the latter about what type, quantities and price of products and/or services that are agreed for purchase by the buyer from the seller. When the buyer sends a purchase order to the seller, it makes for a legal [...]
How To Generate Pro Forma Financial Statements For A Company
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Pro forma financial statements are a process of formally displaying financial projections for a given period of time and in a consistent layout. The word pro forma is derived from the Latin term which means “as a matter of form”. Most businesses make use of pro forma financial statements in the executive process for planning [...]
The Ins and Outs Of A Financial Statement Audit Report
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An accounting audit report gives the complete financial perspective of a company, and is prepared at the end of the financial year. This document is of use to all who want an exact picture of the functioning of the company. The aim of this document is to provide insights into the functioning as well as [...]
Is Your Business In Balance? All About The Balance Sheet
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A Balance Sheet is a financial document prepared by a business, organization or individual at the end of a fiscal year or other period, which depicts the assets, liabilities and shareholder equity of the company. Based on the double entry bookkeeping system, the balance sheet helps assess the net worth of the company at a [...]
Understanding Bank Reconciliation
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Bookkeeping is fundamental in running your business in an informed way. It is important that you have an organized, transparent and updated bookkeeping system in place. One of the ways to keep track of your company’s books is bank reconciliation.
What is bank reconciliation?
The procedure of comparing the account balance given by the bank with that [...]
Understanding Account Reconciliation
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When you confirm that the balance in your checkbook is in sync with your corresponding bank statement, it is known as account reconciliation.
Any record that you keep regarding your financial transactions with banks, credit card companies, or retail stores is known as an account. It is an arrangement between buyers and sellers in which [...]
Michael Jackson’s Fiscal Disaster
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When you live in Never Never Land, aren’t things supposed to be fun? According to Michael Jackson’s latest financial woes the answer is no. Earning large amounts of money since he was five, how can Michael Jackson have a fiscal fiasco?
It boils down to spending versus watching the bottom line. Although Jackson’s [...]
Computerized Bookkeeping Is Fast, Simple, and Flexible
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Every business needs to keep good records to ensure bills are paid, obligations are met and checkbook balances match up. Whether it’s a home-based business, a Fortune 500 company or even the business of running a household, well-kept books can really help guide a “business” in the right direction when it comes to keeping finances [...]
Are You Properly Tracking Your Company’s Stock?
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The Capitalization Table provides investors with a bird’s eye view of the sum total of all the different securities issued by a company. It includes the amount of investment that the company has procured from investors and the distribution of securities which might include common/preferred shares, options, warranties etc. and the individual capitalization ratios.
The [...]