Tag: Bookkeeping
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Bookkeeping – Tracking Invoices (Lesson 36)
Every small business should track their sales in order to evaluate performance, opportunity and trends. In a good system sales will identify date and time of purchase; customer’s name and demographic information; items purchased with quantity and dollar values and finally, methods of payment.
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Bookkeeping – Employee Benefits (Lesson 35)
One of the best parts of being a bookkeeper is seeing employees smile when they utilize employee benefits. There are a multitude of different employee benefits out there including: 1) Health Insurance, 2) Retirement, 3) Life Insurance, 4) Dental Care, 5) Vision Care, 6) Cancer Insurance, 7) Disability Insurance and 8) Child Care.
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Bookkeeping – Quarterly and Annual Payroll Reports (Lesson 34)
Federal and state compliance requires the filing of several different reports by certain deadlines. In this lesson I explain the various reports, filing deadlines and best practices to comply with the law. I’ll explain the quarterly set of reports first then the respective annual requirements.
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Bookkeeping – Payroll Compliance and Documentation (Lesson 33)
The key to success with payroll accounting is properly documenting all aspects of payroll thus complying with the various legal requirements.
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Bookkeeping – Payroll Cycles (Lesson 32)
Similar to the bookkeeping cycles, payroll cycles have many frequent activities, fewer incremental requirements and one important end of the year report. This lesson explains these respective cycles and how they tie together for the final year-end report. Other lessons in this section of the website go into some details about various functions of payroll…
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Bookkeeping – A Simple Payroll (Lesson 31)
In Lesson 30 I explained the payroll account structure using parent-child accounts. This lesson is a part of the daily operations section of bookkeeping illustrating an actual payroll entry. If you haven’t done so yet, please read: Payroll – An Introduction.
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Bookkeeping – Payroll Structure (Lesson 30)
Every bookkeeper needs to understand how to process a payroll. This is one of the many regular tasks in the bookkeeping cycle. In this lesson I’m going to illustrate a payroll structure as it pertains to the chart of accounts.
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Bookkeeping – Accounting Cycles (Lesson 29)
The bookkeeping cycle is like a huge giant clock with several dozen gears from a multiple cog gear rotating the most frequently turning cog cascading into the one large gear that once turned changes the timer one year forward. The bookkeeper’s job is to make all the gears click and keep the system lubricated. At the…
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Bookkeeping – You are a Bookkeeper Now (Lesson 28)
There really is no undergraduate degree program for bookkeeping. Nobody has a college diploma from an accredited institution for bookkeeping; accounting yes, bookkeeping no.
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Bookkeeping with QuickBooks (Lesson 27)
There are multiple positive benefits of QuickBooks for the business and directly for the bookkeeper too.