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Article / Updated 09-15-2022
Financial statement fraud, commonly referred to as "cooking the books," involves deliberately overstating assets, revenues, and profits and/or understating liabilities, expenses, and losses. When a forensic accountant investigates business financial fraud, she looks for red flags or accounting warning signs that indicate suspect business accounting practices.
Number nightmares in accounting? No more! The numbers are clear: the need for accountants is not only strong, but on the rise. With job growth projected to increase by 7% over the next 10 years, there’s no time like the present to join this growing—and profitable—profession. Accounting Workbook For Dummies, 2nd Edition gives you the hands-on instruction you need to understand complicated concepts through demonstration problems, practice worksheets.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 09-02-2022
As a business manager or owner, taking care of your company’s accounting needs is a top priority. Correctly preparing financial statements, financial analyses, and accounting reports involves knowing all the financial data and information that needs to appear in these items.Making a profit helps keep you in business, while maintaining a strong balance sheet ensures you can stay in business.
Article / Updated 08-19-2022
You can compare reading a business’s financial report with shucking an oyster: You have to know what you’re doing and work to get at the meat. You need a good reason to pry into a financial report. The main reason to become informed about the financial performance and condition of a business is because you have a stake in the business.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 04-05-2022
Managing the finances of a small business is a multi-layered task. You need to become familiar with standard financial documents, pay attention to profits, and make the most of the business’s assets. And you always have to be thinking and planning ahead. You have some work to do, get to it!Important financial documents for your small businessManaging the finances of your small business can be a challenge.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 02-23-2022
Cash flow refers to generating or producing cash (cash inflows) and using or consuming cash (cash outflows). You should think of cash flow as the lifeblood of your business, and you must keep that blood circulating at all times in order avoid failure. Managing cash flows is essential to the successful operation of your business.
Demystify your financial statements and figure out what your accountant is talking about with this straightforward roadmap to the world of accountingFew skills are as useful as a basic understanding of accounting language. And with the right resources, learning the language of business can be intuitive, empowering, and fun.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 11-12-2021
Accountants keep the books of businesses, not-for-profits, and government entities by following systematic methods of recording all financial activities. If you invest your hard-earned money in a private business or a real estate venture, save money in a credit union, or are a member of a nonprofit association or organization, you likely receive regular financial reports.
Manage the art of bookkeepingDo you need to get up and running on bookkeeping basics and the latest tools and technology used in the field? You've come to the right place! Bookkeeping All-In-One For Dummies is your go-to guide for all things bookkeeping. Bringing you accessible information on the new technologies and programs, it cuts through confusing jargon and gives you friendly instruction you can use right away.
The only guide to accounting that’s tailor-made for Canadians Accounting For Canadians For Dummies provides comprehensive coverage of all the auditing concepts, practices, and regulations Canadians need to know. This trusted guide is full of great information applicable to accountants and auditors who work throughout private industry and government, as well as salary accountants working for accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services firms.