Accounting Best Practices - Hardcover

Bragg, Steven M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471727946 ISBN 13: 9780471727941

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Synopsis

Adopting accounting best practices can improve efficiency and reduce error rates in the accounting department, but less obvious are the benefits gained from better reporting of information to other parts of the company. More accurate data, reported faster, can play an integral role in both short– and long–term strategic planning. Accounting guru Steven Bragg explains how to leverage this and other opportunities in Accounting Best Practices, Fourth Edition. This revised and updated text features numerous new best practices in such critical areas as accounting management, inventory, billing, and payroll. This Fourth Edition highlights the dos and don’ts of best practices implementation, and a new reference system renders the expansive collection of best practices readily accessible. Accounting and financial managers, internal and external auditors, and consultants will find it to be a peerless resource.

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Review

"Bragg, a knowledgeable accounting practitioner and prolific author of accounting practice books, has updated this one–stop source of information this volume is a comprehensive resource for the accounting profession." ( Choice; 11/2007)

From the Back Cover

"In Accounting Best Practices, Fourth Edition, Steve has provided an excellent step–by–step manual of best practices to enable the CFO or head of accounting to have a major positive impact on his or her organization. The implementation of accounting best practices optimizes accounting expenditures while providing the information and control foundation, which provides management with the information it needs to position the organization to fulfill its goals and objectives."
Richard V. Souders, President and CEO Premier Data Services

Everyone knows that adopting accounting best practices can improve efficiency and reduce error rates in the accounting department, but less obvious are the benefits gained from better reporting of information to other parts of the company. More accurate data, reported faster, can play an integral role in both short– and long–term strategic planning. Accounting guru Steven Bragg explains how to leverage this and other opportunities in his authoritative Accounting Best Practices, Fourth Edition.

This revised and updated Fourth Edition features numerous new best practices in such critical areas as:

• Accounting management
• Inventory
• Billing
• Payroll

Accounting Best Practices, Fourth Edition highlights the dos and don′ts of best practices implementation, and a new reference system renders the expansive collection of best practices readily accessible. Accounting and financial managers, internal and external auditors, and consultants will find it to be a peerless resource.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0471727946
• ISBN 13: 9780471727941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 464