Bookkeeping Essentials: How to Succeed as a Bookkeeper - Paperback

by Steven M. Bragg (Author)

The handy problem-solver with helpful information for today's busy bookkeepers

Bookkeeping Essentials: How to Succeed as a Bookkeeper is the handy problem-solver that gives today's busy bookkeepers and accountants the helpful information they need in a quick-reference format. Whether in public practice or private industry, professionals will always have this reliable reference tool at their fingertips.

• Packed with practical techniques and rules of thumb for analyzing, evaluating, and solving the day-to-day problems every accountant faces
• Helps bookkeepers and accountants quickly pinpoint what to look for, what to watch out for, what to do, and how to do it
• Offers hundreds of explanations supported by a multitude of examples, tables, charts, and ratios

Filled with dozens of accounting best practices, Bookkeeping Essentials is a powerful companion for the ever-changing world of today's accountant and bookkeeper.

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Get quick answers to all your bookkeeping questions

Presenting a question and answer format for the most common problems arising from the multitude of areas a bookkeeper may address during the working day, Bookkeeping Essentials: How to Succeed as a Bookkeeper provides complete, easy-to-navigate coverage with concise explanations and hundreds of supporting examples.

This reliable reference goes anywhere you go--to a client's office, on a business trip, or to an important lunch meeting--covering topics you'll be encountering constantly, such as:

• What a journal entry is and where you record it

• Calculating payroll, buying from suppliers, handling cash receipts, and tracking inventory

• How to create financial statements

• How to ensure your transactions are as error-free as possible

• Reducing expenses

• And much more!

Packed with checklists, samples, and worked-out solutions to a wide variety of typical situations, Bookkeeping Essentials is the handy problem-solver that gives you the helpful information you want right now, in the quick-reference format you need.

Author Biography

Steven M. Bragg, CPA, has been the chief financial officer or controller of four companies, as well as a consulting manager at Ernst & Young and an auditor at Deloitte. He is the author of over forty books primarily targeted toward controllers and their needs. Bragg received a master's degree in finance from Bentley College, an MBA from Babson College, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maine.