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Small Business Accounting Simplified

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This book is extremely useful. It provides step by step instructions for organizing a small business's accounting system. It also provides many reproducible forms that its discussions are based around. The book is very easy to read; no wasted chit-chat.This is all a small business needs.

This book is a great accounting resource for anyone who owns a small business. It is well-organized and covers the basics in an easy to understand way.

The book contains useful checklists, forms that you can adapt for your business and avoids the use of a lot of jargon. If you are a no nonsense small business person, you will will find this an invaluable resource.

What a waste!
The title of this book should not be allowed to use the term "accounting." There are a plethora of very inexpensive computerized accounting systems for small businesses. I purchased Simply Accounting from Best Software and was looking for a text to supplement my knowledge to assist me in implementing the system. This mechanized accounting system from Best works beautifully and then I discover this accounting book uses "single-entry accounting" which in my opinion doesn't even exist except in the author's mind or can't be defined that I am aware of. This book comprises a system of manual forms to manage your business and as I said before, should not be able to use accounting in its title. At least label it something like "Use Manual Forms to Manage Your Business."

This is a great primer for those starting their own business.

The basic single entry accounting method is well-explained in this book. Each chapter is divided to introduce account types, ways to document transactions (in and out) and basic charts to help you get started. All the tips provided will ensure your CPA (still recommended for tax prep) is able to understand the structure of accounts and the thought process used.

The book is well-written, so the average Joe can pick it up and read through it in a day (I read on and off throughout a day). After that, it can easily be used as a quick reference guide due to the great chapter division. Each section can be referred to as required without the hassle of looking through multiple sections for an answer.

I also purchased Keeping the Books: Basic Recordkeeping and Accounting for the Successful Small Business (Keeping the Books) as a second book to solidify my learning. I am only partially through the second book, but all the review I've gone though is setting well.

I think the book is quite good. It is very simple and straight forward. Easy to understand and implement.

I'm not sure what book the other reviewers were referring to. Filling pages with empty forms with ONE overly simplified example doesn't exactly prepare a budding entrepreneur to tackle their bookkeeping. In addition to the limited content, multiple typos and some grainy jpegs make me question Nova's commitment to publishing quality books.

Now in a newly updated fourth edition, Small Business Accounting Simplified: Everything Necessary to Skillfully Manage Your Business Finances is an easy-to-use guide to the nuts and bolts of small business finance. Written by attorney-at-law Daniel Sitarz in a plain-terms style immediately accessible to lay readers, Small Business Accounting Simplified covers how to track business assets, expenses, income, and payroll, keep a chart of accounts, prepare a profit and loss statement, set up a practical recordkeeping schedule, and much more. Numerous full-page sample forms, including business tax forms, round out this invaluable and handy guide, highly recommended for small business owners everywhere.

Now in a revised and updated second edition, Simplified Small Business Accounting by business attorney Daniel Sitarz is a definitive guidebook written specifically for the do-it-yourself, non-specialist, general readers who is charged with the responsibility of keeping proper accounts for their businesses or entrepreneurial activities. Dedicated to educating novice and veteran entrepreneurs alike, Simplified Small Business Accounting explains a wide range of practical matters in simple, direct language easily accessible to all readers. Individual chapters address the tracking business assets, income/expenses, preparing a balance sheets and ledgers, analyzing financial statements and tax forms, payrolls, inventories, and much more. A solid, first-class reference for anyone in charge of a small business and/or its funds, Simplified Small Business Accounting is "user friendly" and highly recommended.

Small Business Accounting Simplified by experienced business attorney Daniel Sitarz is a "must" for the non-specialist general reader determined to be their own boss, yet unfamiliar with how to be their own accountant. Packed from cover to cover with sage advice, clear instructions, helpful checklists, as well as "user friendly" forms ranging from ledger sheets and expense records, to profit/loss statements, inventory record keeping and tax preparation records, that can be readily photocopied for everything from invoices to balance sheets, payroll records, inventory records and much more, Small Business Accounting Simplified is an absolutely indispensable, accessible instructional reference to understanding and managing a small business accounting system.