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Bookkeeping & Accounting All-in-One For Dummies, UK Edition
All the essential financial skills you need to grow a small businessBookkeeping & Accounting All-in-One For Dummies, UK Edition, 2nd Edition simplifies every aspect of financial record keeping so you can manage your business expertly. You'll receive comprehensive guidance on balancing your books, speeding up data entry, and boosting performance by eliminating costly clerical errors.
Accounting Workbook For Dummies
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.
Accounting All-in-One For Dummies (+ Videos and Quizzes Online)
A complete and easy-to-follow resource covering every critical step of the accounting processLearning to love the language of business is easier than you think! In the newly revised Third Edition of Accounting All-In-One For Dummies with Online Practice, finance expert Michael Taillard walks you through every step of the accounting process, from setting up your accounting system to auditing and detecting financial irregularities.
Reading Financial Reports For Dummies
Your personal roadmap to becoming fluent in financial reports At first glance, the data in financial reports might seem confusing or overwhelming. But, with the right guide at your side, you can learn to translate even the thickest and most complex financial reports into plain English. In Reading Financial Reports For Dummies, you'll move step-by-step through each phase of interpreting and understanding the data in a financial report, learning the key accounting and business fundamentals as you go.
Cost Accounting For Dummies
Take control of overhead, budgeting, and profitability with cost accounting Cost accounting is one of the most important skills in business, and its popularity as a course in undergraduate and graduate business and management programs speaks to its usefulness. But if you’ve ever felt intimidated by the subject’s jargon or concepts, you can stop worrying.
Corporate Finance For Dummies
Get a handle on one of the most powerful forces in the world today with this straightforward, no-jargon guide to corporate finance A firm grasp of the fundamentals of corporate finance can help explain and predict the behavior of businesses and businesspeople. And, with the right help from us, it’s not that hard to learn!
Accounting For Dummies
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.
Article / Updated 04-06-2021
Modern financial accounting is a double-entry system: For every entry into the company accounting records, there has to be an opposite and equal entry. In other words, debits must always equal credits. (Financial accounting has quite a bit in common with Newton’s third law of motion — the one about every action having an equal and opposite reaction.
Article / Updated 04-06-2021
Being a financial accountant is a pretty good gig. A plethora of career options is open to you, whether you dream of being self-employed or see yourself working for a larger business, and whether your dream job is part-time or full-time.A financial accountant can follow many different career paths, from being a certified public accountant to working for nonbusiness entities, such as charitable organizations.
Article / Updated 04-06-2021
Accounting journals are a lot like the diary you may have kept as a child (or maybe still keep!). They are a day-to-day recording of events. But accounting journals record business transactions taking place within a company’s accounting department. Accountants call journals the books of original entry because no transactions get into the accounting records without being entered into a journal first.