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The 3 Financial Statements Small Business Owners Should Understand Part 1. Balance Sheet

8/30/2017

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​As a small business owner, the ability to read financial statements will give you a better idea of how your business is doing. There are many different financial statements but I've narrowed it down to three to focus on. If you dedicate your time to learning these three statements inside and out it will give you a great idea of the financial position of your small business. This will be a three-part blog series starting with an in-depth look at balance sheets how they are structured and how to use them to your advantage when evaluating your business. 
  Your Balance Sheet will list out all your assets and expenses. The key to this statement though is that it must balance, hence the name. Your assets must be equal to the amount of liabilities plus shareholders’ equity. If you accounted correctly these should be equal. Now there are different types of liabilities and expenses that you should know. There are fixed and current assets. Fixed assets are things you are not planning on selling or that cannot be sold easily within a year. This would include things like your physical building, equipment you use, etc. Current assets are things you are planning on converting into cash in the near future. This would include your accounts receivable, inventory, or prepaid expenses. The two types of liability are short term and long term. These are much more self-explanatory; the short term are things that must be paid within the next 12 months of the date of the balance sheet i.e. taxes or loans. While long term would be things that must be paid outside of a year from the balance sheet. These are typically things like long-term rent, bonds payable, or pensions.
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  So, what are you looking for exactly in your balance sheet? The shareholder's equity is a rough estimate of the company's net worth. Since the shareholder's equity is the initial amount of money invested in the company. The company can, after taxes, choose to move retained earnings into the shareholder's equity account. Important information can be gained by analyzing ratios. The ratio of debt to equity is where your balance sheet becomes extremely helpful. You want to take your outstanding debt and divide it by your equity. This gives you a ratio, it is important to evaluate your ratio over three years to identify a trend. Each industry differs in what debt-equity ratio is acceptable, be sure to do this research if you are undertaking this task yourself.
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Making Expense Tracking Easier One Wave at a Time

8/3/2017

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No matter the size of your business keeping up with large amounts of receipts can be frustrating. Now you do not have to spend hours sorting through stacks and stacks of crumpled up receipts and waste valuable time. With Wave Accounting’s new app, keeping track of your expense receipts is much easier. All you have to do is take a picture of your receipts throughout the year as you spend. Then the app connects to your Wave account where you can track and review all your expenses. ​
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 Both the app and the account with Wave is completely free.  Making this service a good alternative if a small business or entrepreneur cannot afford the subscription to a full-service software like QuickBooks or pay a professional accountant. Their business model is to tailor to this group, while their software does not have the same list of features as QuickBooks but is a good free option if you need to gain some control over you pile of receipts.
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