Publisher's Synopsis
It's an essential guide for people starting a business, trainee accountants and non-accountants seeking to gain insight of accounting principles. It demystifies the jargon and technical terms for an everyman audience: Areas covered include:
- Bookkeeping Basics
- Business Structure
- Setting Up/Buying a Business
- Accounting Equation
- What is Accounting?
- Principles, Risk and Internal Control
- Bookkeeping
- Is it a Debit or a Credit?
- Financial Statements
- Balance Sheet
- Profit & Loss Account
- Fixed Assets
- Debtors
- Stock
- Bank/Loans/Overdrafts
- Petty Cash
- Creditors
- VAT
- Taxation
- Leases
- Sales
- Purchases/Procurement
- Wages & Payroll/PAYE/PRSI
- Nominal Ledger and Journals
- Chart of Accounts
- Budgeting
- Reporting
- Business Analysis
- Working Capital
- Preparation of Accounts/Audit
