Short description
The painless way to master the art of bookkeeping!
Manage your own finances to save money and grow your business!
If you're a small business owner who manages your own finances, Bookkeeping For Dummies is for you. This friendly guide covers all the basics of bookkeeping — from recording transactions to producing balance sheets and year-end reports. It's the easy way to keep track of your business's financial well-being.
Discover how to Keep track of transactions Produce balance sheets Create financial statements Manage assets and liabilities Keep ledgers and journals
Long description
This is a friendly, easy-to-use guide to bookkeeping basics. This handy guide covers everything professionals need to know to balance the books at a big company or a mom-and-pop store, including assets and liabilities; keeping track of transactions; balance sheets; keeping a ledger and journal; financial statements; operating accounts; and up-to-date tax information. "Bookkeeping For Dummies" brings the "For Dummies" formula of trustworthy information and straightforward explanations to the complicated business of bookkeeping. Lita Epstein, MBA (Poinciana, FL), designs and teaches online courses on topics, such as investing for retirement, getting ready for tax time, and finance and investing for women. She earned her MBA from Emory University's Goizueta Business School, and is the author of "Streetwise Retirement Planning" and the coauthor of "Alpha Teach Yourself Retirement Planning in 24 Hours". Lita was the content director for a financial services Web site, MostChoice.com. She also wrote TipWorld's "Mutual Fund Tip of the Day," in addition to columns about mutual fund trends for numerous Web sites.