steps of bookkeeping for small business
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Bookkeeping is a subset of accounting under which income, expenditure, account payable, account receivables are to be recorded. Thereafter, their reviewing and corrections are done for maintaining the ledger. All these activities enable a bookkeeper to evaluate the actual financial condition of the small business organization. \n - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Steps of Bookkeeping for Small Business
Bookkeeping is an initial step of account which enables to maintain, reconcile the record of income, expenditure, liabilities, AP and AR in organized manner for evaluating revenues.
Ledger Creation
Types
• Traditional method of maintaining hard copy of the ledger.• Modern accounting software and personal finance
software.
Why?
• To maintain current balance account including cash in hand, cash in bank, expenditure, revenue and other ancillary accounts.
Recording Payments
Types
• Tax• Utility Bills• Salary payments • Invoices paid • Memorandum
Why?
• To maintain records of payments including date, payee, category, memorandum and record of the cheques.
Recording Receipts
Types
• Received invoices• Sale of the product • Debtor cleared debt • Sale of an asset
Why?
• To maintain the record of incoming money.
Scheduling Upcoming Payment or Account Payable (AP)
Types
• Recurring payments• Rent• Utility bills
Why?
• For getting prepared to meet future expenses by extracting the idea of prospective income and expenditure.
Scheduling Account Receivables
Types
• Debtors’ payment• Outstanding rent • Income through sale
Why?
• To eliminate the risk of getting the cheque bounced which will be received from your client.
Reconciliation
Types
• Traditional paper-bound way of cross-examining transactions
• Modern soft-copy way of automate reconciliation.
Why?
• To avert the possibility of errors, double entries and incorrect entries in ledger.