Archive for June, 2007
India Outsourcing Accounting Helps To Speed Up Your Business
A business is known by the profit it makes and accounting helps it to keep a proper track of each transaction. Now as the business grows and expands the accounting tasks becomes not only more and more crucial but also voluminous. Every minor transaction and even the minutest details need to be accounted for to prevent any mistakes and frauds. The records of transaction are useful in not only checking how the business is performing at present but it also helps to strategize futu Read more
No commentsWhat Merchant Account Processing Service Is Suitable For Your Home Based Small Business?
Are you thinking of selling goods and/or services on the web? If so, you will probably considering getting a merchant account processing service to accept credit cards on your site.
What is a merchant account processing?
A merchant account processing service allows sellers to accept credit cards, debit cards or any other forms of payment cards as payment for products and services. This is a bank accounts used to process card transactions.
What types Read more
1 commentCreditor Proofing Your Business - Tips fo Canadian Business Owners
A frequent cause of personal financial difficulties is the failure of a business and the attendant business-related liabilities personally owed by the company owner. These individuals must often file for bankruptcy or make a proposal to their creditors as result of business-related debts.
Debtors completing their bankruptcy/ proposal often wish to start up another business sometime in the near future. The expected question then arises: how can they creditor-proof themselv Read more
No commentsUsing Free Online Bookkeeping Courses In Your Home Business
Here’s something on the internet that’s a godsend: free online bookkeeping courses. Do you think bookkeeping is confusing? If you’re like me, you can balance a checkbook or household budget just fine, but when you start trying to figure out assets and liabilities, it gets confusing. It might be easier if they used minus signs instead of parentheses to indicate negative amounts. Or if they didn’t add liabilities. But it is what it is, and, if you have a home business, you Read more
No commentsFinancial Accounting With Double Entry Bookkeeping - Traditional Methods of Financial Accounting
In this series of articles it proposed to cover the following topics. In this article I have discussed the first one given below. More articles describing the other listed topics below may soon be published.
- Meaning of Bookkeeping
- Definition and objectives of Bookkeeping
- Accounting Systems
- Branches of Accounting
- Uses of Accounting
- Limitations of Financial Accounting
- Explanation of important Accounting terms
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Collecting on Past Due Accounts
Customer bills that are unpaid after the terms that were set are considered past-due accounts. Many business owners and managers have a billing processes, but no process for collecting on past due accounts.
One of the biggest dilemmas small business owners face when managing a business in collecting on past-due accounts. Why, do we have a fear of contacting clients or customers who owe us money? Most business owners avoid calling a client of customer on a past-due accou Read more
No commentsHome Based Business Tips - Three Reasons to Outsource Your Businesses Accounting Needs
When you have home based business you fill many roles. One in particular is the role of company accountant or bookkeeper. Many businesses use QuickBooks to handle their accounting needs as do I.
The benefits of using QuickBooks are endless. Mainly the program provides an easy way to invoice your clients and keep track of your accounts. However, there is a learning curve using QuickBooks to its full capacity. While I recommend that you perform the invoicing yourself, I re Read more
6 commentsBasic Book of Accounting - Journal - Recording Debit and Credit in Accounting
Traders are required to maintain different books for keeping accounts relating to business which are as under:
(I) Journal
(2) Ledger (it shall be explained in another article)
Journal
In order to study the journal, certain related terms along with the procedure of accounting must be studied, which are as follows :
The Account
Transactions involving receipts and payments of cash affect the cash balance. Receipts Read more
No commentsClassification of Accounts - Hints for Journalizing - Advantages of Journal
Personal Accounts
Accounts recording transactions relating to individuals or firms or company are known as personal accounts. Personal accounts may further be classified as :
(1) Natural person’s personal accounts: The accounts recording transactions relating to individual human beings e.g., Anand’s A/c, Remesh’s A/c, Pankaj’s A/c are classified as natural person’s personal accounts.
(2) Artificial person’s personal account: The accounts recor Read more
No commentsAdvantages Objectives of Trial Balance, Trial Balance Limitations - Shortcomings of Trial Balance
Advantages (Objectives of Trial Balance)
1. It ensures that the transactions recorded in the books of accounts have identical debit and credit amount.
2. Balance of each ledger account has been computed correctly.
3. Balance of each and every ledger account has been transferred accurately and on the correct side of the sheet on which trial balance has been prepared.
4. The debit and the credit columns of trial balance have been added up Read more
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