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Tips for Small Business Accounting

5/3/2017

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When you start your own business, it is common to make mistakes especially when it comes to accounting. Skipping small accounting tasks seems like it would save time, but it ends up costing time and sometimes even money in the future. It is better to get into a habit of taking care of accounting tasks early so they become less of an ordeal towards the end of the fiscal year. The focus should be clean, clear, and accurate accounting that will make your life easier. So, here are a few tips to help with your small business accounting.
    Separate your business funds from your personal funds. Even if your business consists of only you. Create a separate account for the business and the business only. This not only allows you to make your reconciliations and end of the year deductions easier, it also lets you keep close accounting of your cash flow.
    Many accounting professionals that work with small business owners will tell you that often they see the business owner not applying payments to open receivable accounts. It seems almost too simple to point out but it is easy to forget. Leaving receivable accounts open can cause major headaches down the road.
Reconcile all your accounts as soon as the statement is available. This process will be much easier now since the rest of your records should be accurate. Not reconciling accounts can reduce the amount of deductions you will receive.
    Understand the tools and functions of your accounting software. Whether you are using QuickBooks or another software, understanding exactly what it can do and its limitations are important to making good use of your time.
    Read the entirety of Terms of Credit agreements. Reading long terms can be monotonous at first but It can save you money in interest and other fees.
    When first starting out it is easy to keep track of the small books you will be keeping. It is important to set up in a way that you can grow and scale without exponentially raising the amount of work you must put in to maintaining your books. You can set up automation in some online cloud based accounting that will allow your business to scale without you having to maintain all the accounting records by hand.
    Use this tips for your benefit to learn from the mistakes that others have made in the past. Professionals are always ready to help with high level expert advice for small business owners.

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Sariah Meagle link
10/8/2018 10:12:19 pm

My sister has a small business and she wants to make sure that the books are organized and taxes are paid. It was advised here that business owners should be applying for payments to open receivable accounts. Furthermore, it's recommended to hire professionals for small business accounting.

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