Basic accounting provides information to identify and classify financial transactions. Business owners often need basic accounting skills to manage their company's financial information. Business ...

Cost accounting may not be the most exciting way for a business owner to spend a Friday night. However, understanding the basics of cost accounting can help you track costs, increase profits, and ...

In this installment of Accounting Basics for Small Contractors, we’ll look at specific KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) (aka benchmarks) that contractors should be monitoring. In order to calculate ...

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German mobile app developer Hans Peter Ruehl has created Study Accounting, an app for the iPhone and iPad that aims to teach the basics of accounting to non-accountants. [IMGCAP(1)]He visited New York ...

From monthly profit-and-loss statements to annual reports, accounting is just basic business hygiene, right? Wrong. Read on to see how your business can use financial information as a strategic tool ...

Banks and investors will typically use financial ratios to measure the performance of your business. They may also be used to gain insight on a company’s financial statements. Regardless if you’re a ...