Keeping the Books : Basic Recordkeeping and Accounting for the Small Business, Plus Up-To-Date Tax Information (4th Edition) - US Book Keeping - Softcover

Pinson, Linda; Jinnett, Jerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574101072 ISBN 13: 9781574101072

Publisher: Upstart Publishing Co, 1998

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
·        Plan for required taxes due

About this title

About the Author

Linda Pinson is a nationally recognized speaker, award-winning author, educator, consultant and expert in the areas of small business planning and financial management.  Author of numerous bestselling titles for entrepreneurs, she has also developed the popular "Automate Your Business Plan" software to accompany the bestselling Anatomy of a Business Plan book.  A member of the U.S. Small Business Advisory Council for the past five years, she is an active speaker at the Association of Small Business Development Centers annual conferences and has served as delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business.

Synopsis

This is a user-friendly guide to maintaining all the records necessary for the business person whose spe ciality lies somewhere other than accountancy. It quickly en ables those with little knowledge to develop a complete veri fiable system. '

Edition details

• Publisher: Upstart Publishing Co
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574101072
• ISBN 13: 9781574101072
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 224