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eFiling and uFiling – The Big Timesavers

28. January 2010

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As a business owner you can’t look past the fact that the internet plays a big role in businesses these days. It’s not just a time waster for employees that sit day in and day out on Facebook or Youtube. The internet is also there to make life easier for business owners and this is [...]

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Basic Accounting – Depreciation

16. November 2009

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The concept of depreciation is really pretty simple. For example, let’s say you purchase a truck for your business. The truck loses value the minute you drive it out of the dealership. The truck is considered an operational asset in running your business. Each year that you own the truck, it loses some value, until [...]

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Basic Accounting Terms and Concepts

12. October 2009

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There are a few (and only a few) things you need to understand in order to make setting up your accounting system easier. They’re basic (trust me), and they will probably clear up any confusion you may have had in the past when talking with your CPA or other technical accounting types. Debits and Credits These [...]

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The Language of Accounting

17. August 2009

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ACCOUNTING: A NECESSARY EVIL? Many of the small-business managers I know view accounting this way. It’s overhead and really doesn’t contribute to the bottom line. Or does it? The people who run the accounting system speak in an unintelligible blur of debits and credits. They have little grasp of the operation that generates the money to [...]

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Basic Accounting – General Ledger

31. July 2009

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The general ledger is the core of your company’s financial records. These constitute the central “books” of your system, and every transaction flows through the general ledger. These records remain as a permanent track of the history of all financial transactions since day one of the life of your company. Subledgers and the General Ledger Your accounting [...]

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