The easy way to get a handle on bookkeeping
Accurate and complete bookkeeping is crucial to any businessowner, but it's also important to those who work with the business,such as investors, financial institutions, and employees.Bookkeeping For Dummies provides the easy and painless wayto master this critical skill.
You'll get clear and concise information on keeping track oftransactions, figuring out balance sheets, keeping ledgers orjournals, creating financial statements, and operating accounts forbusinesses, along with practices and examples to hone your skills.Plus, the bonus CD includes samples of bookkeeping forms, workingpapers, letters, resources, and spreadsheets.
* Keeping track of transactions
* Figuring out the balance sheet
* Keeping a ledger and journal
* Creating financial statements
* Operating accounts for businesses
* Recognizing assets and liabilities
* Up-to-date tax information
* Changes in small business regulations
* Additional and complementary examples
* Demonstration problems
* True/false and multiple-choice questions and scenarios
Whether you're a professional or a student looking to expandyour skills, Bookkeeping Kit For Dummies is a one-stopresource for anyone interested in this ever-growing occupation.

Introduction 1
Part I: Basic Bookkeeping: Why You Need It 7
Chapter 1: So You Want to Do the Books 9
Chapter 2: Getting Down to Bookkeeping Basics 17
Chapter 3: Outlining Your Financial Road Map with a Chart ofAccounts 39
Part II: Keeping a Paper Trail 55
Chapter 4: The General Ledger: A One-Stop Summary of YourBusiness Transactions 57
Chapter 5: Keeping Journals 81
Chapter 6: Computer Options for Your Bookkeeping 111
Chapter 7: Controlling Your Books, Your Records, and Your Money121
Part III: Tracking Day-to-Day Business Operations with YourBooks 139
Chapter 8: Buying and Tracking Your Purchases 141
Chapter 9: Counting Your Sales 159
Chapter 10: Employee Payroll and Benefits 191
Chapter 11: Employer-Paid Taxes and Government Payroll Reporting213
Part IV: Preparing the Books for Year's (Or Month's) End227
Chapter 12: Depreciating Your Assets 229
Chapter 13: Paying and Collecting Interest 243
Chapter 14: Proving Out the Cash 261
Chapter 15: Closing the Journals 277
Chapter 16: Checking Your Accuracy by Trial and (Hopefully No)Error 289
Chapter 17: Adjusting the Books 301
Part V: Reporting Results and Starting Over 317
Chapter 18: Developing a Balance Sheet 319
Chapter 19: Producing an Income Statement 337
Chapter 20: Completing Year-End Payroll and Reports 355
Chapter 21: Satisfying the Tax Man 365
Chapter 22: Prepping the Books for a New Accounting Cycle373
Part VI: The Part of Tens 379
Chapter 23: Ten Ways to Manage Your Business Cash with YourBooks...............381
Chapter 24: The Ten (Plus One) Most Important Accounts for AnyBookkeeper 385
Part VII: Appendixes 389
Appendix A: Glossary 391
Appendix B: About the CD 395
Index 403