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Friday, August 29, 2014

All About Small Business Bookkeeping Services

By Harriet Porter


Owning a small business means accounting which is difficult for most people especially if you are not an accountant. This is also true for big companies, keeping that entire math correct and current is not easy. Small business bookkeeping services are best done by professional.

Bookkeeping for organizations usually serve two important purposes. It provides a way for the IRS to evaluate what you do as well as help the owners in daily running of the organization. They are able to monitor and evaluate the performance of the business through periodical transaction records and also take a peek into the future. There is important information that should be captured by these records.

A company should track their revenues and expenses. Revenues are the monies generated while expenses are the costs incurred by the enterprise. Journals and ledgers are used to keep this type of information. A journal keeps records of receipts of expenses and revenues whereas the ledger has records of credits and debits. The ledger entries are made using the journal records and should be made every day.

Transactions of expenses over a period of times such as a year are made in the cash expenditure records. Petty cash and reimbursable checks are used to enter expenditure records. For daily office purchases that have not been budgeted for petty cash is used purchase them. Maintaining an inventory is necessary to ensure that your merchandise is not stolen or misplaced. These records are made using information regarding the prices, date of purchase and of selling as well as the amount sold.

Account receivables and payable bear information about your debts and credits. The invoices are entered here and dates, numbers, paid amounts and the balances. Client information is to be captured here as well. Payroll maintenance is a big task to most start-ups more so for IRS tax remittances. A book keeper will take care of all this on your behalf.

You may think that keeping all the financial information of your firm in your head is easier. Well, after all you it is a small business and your memory is really good and no expensive software to install. However, let us face it; when you have all the transactions on paper it makes everything easy. You are able to see how you are doing, even make future projections and plan ahead.

Personal finance and those for your company should be separate at all times. The start-up should be a separate entity from you. No matter how it small it is, let it have a separate account and credit card from yours. This is important for the long term since you will not have the information in your head one year down the line. Where records are non-existent, taxation is all messy.

Accurate bookkeeping is important to the survival of your organization. Without them, your start up is prone to cash flow and legal problems. A book keeper will create budgets and projections to help your start up prepare in advance. They also help with issues regarding taxes and payroll. It is prudent to hire a book keeper so that you can concentrate on your business and leave the headache of records to professionals.




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