{"product_id":"small-business-accounting","title":"Small Business Accounting","description":"Product Description\n\nIs this the right book for me?\n\nA jargon-free guide for the small business owner or manager\nSmall Business Accounting is a jargon-free joy for the small business owner or manager, providing practical examples of real businesses to show the reader, step by step, how to record each transaction. This book does not assume that you know anything at all about business records and accounts and gives a system for real businesses to be operated by real business people who want a simple, easy and, above all, quick system of book keeping. Forget about debits and credits, journal entries, ledgers and day books. If you can read a bank statement this book will teach you how to prepare accounts, make cashflow forecasts and prepare a budget. And when you do need to use an accountant, it tells you how best to find a reliable one.\n\nSmall Business Accounting includes:\n\nChapter 1: Introduction\nChapter 2: Your bank account\nChapter 3: A simple cashbook\nChapter 4: Analysis columns\nChapter 5: Payments - filing\nChapter 6: Payments - cheque-book\nChapter 7: Payments - cashbook\nChapter 8: Non-allowable expenses\nChapter 9: Purchase of equipment\nChapter 10: Credit cards\nChapter 11: Petty cash\nChapter 12: Receipts - filing\nChapter 13: Receipts - paying-in book\nChapter 14: Receipts - cashbook\nChapter 15: Capital introduced\nChapter 16: End of month procedures\nChapter 17: VAT\nChapter 18: Wages\nChapter 19: End of year totals\nChapter 20: Adjustments for payments\nChapter 21: Adjustments to receipts\nChapter 22: Transfer to tax return\nChapter 23: Trial balance\nChapter 24: Final accounts\nChapter 25: Budgeting and cash-flow forecasting\nChapter 26: Costing and pricing\nChapter 27: Computerization\n\nBook Description\n\nBang up to date and practical information that you can't afford to be without.\n\nFrom the Back Cover\n\nDo you need a straightforward and reliable system for record-keeping?\n\nSmall Business Accounting is for small business owners and managers with no knowledge of - or detailed interest in - book-keeping and\naccountancy.\n\nThe simple single entry book-keeping system explained here is\nfor real businesses that need a straightforward, understandable\nand reliable system for record-keeping. It can be used by the\nsmallest of businesses operating part-time, as well as full time\nventures, and by those who have no aptitude for figures.\nProvided you can more or less understand what a bank\nstatement means, you can understand the record-keeping system\noutlined here.\n\nIntended primarily for sole traders and assuming no prior knowledge of business records and accounts, the book uses practical examples of real businesses to show, step-by-step, how to record typical business transactions. The system will ensure that you can produce a complete and correct set of books for your business as well as providing guidance for completing your annual tax return.\n\n· Designed for sole traders and small partnerships\n· Practical not theoretical\n· Includes case studies so you can see the system in use\n· Build the confidence to handle basic and more complex transactions\n· Move on to VAT, your tax return, cash flow forecasts and more at your own pace 'A clear, lucid guide to a field that for the first timer can be baffling and time consuming... a must for every sole proprietor' Independent\nAndy Lymer is a Professor of Accounting and Taxation at the University of Birmingham. He also heads up Lymer \u0026amp; Associates, undertaking numerous education, consultancy and publishing projects.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nAndy Lymer is Head of Department of Accounting and Finance at University of Birmingham. He also heads up Lymer \u0026amp; Associates, undertaking numerous research, consultancy and publishing projects.","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40156849242197,"sku":"9781473609174N","price":7.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/ea40e48b-b0bd-4acf-b03d-41f5e2a0b12d.jpg?v=1657282953","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/small-business-accounting","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}