Accounting: a Very Short course

Overview

Going from here to there is more efficient with a plan, and even more so if the journey follows a long itinerary with many stops. Your business needs accounting, which will be more efficient with a carefully designed plan. QuickBooks? provides a set of tools. When you understand them, you can set up the accounting system your business needs. This is discussed after explaining what accounting measures and why.

Accounting is a matter of measuring the financial operations of your business, in a manner dictated by long experience. It is really just a practical matter of measuring what you (and perhaps your banker) should want to know. The first part of the chapter introduces accounting in the easiest terms, about things that matter to you.