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Manage your own finances to save money and grow your business!
If you're a small business owner who manages your own finances, Bookkeeping For Canadians For Dummies is for you. This friendly guide covers all the basics of bookkeeping in Canada – from recording transactions to producing balance sheets and year-end reports. With detailed information on how to manage your company's payroll and collect and remit taxes, this book offers the easy way to keep track of your business's financial well-being.
Get started with the basics – understand the accounting cycle, figure out double-entry bookkeeping, and learn how to differentiate debits and credits
Set up and use journals – keep track of incoming and outgoing cash, post journal information in the General Ledger, and simplify everything with computer software
Protect your business – put controls on your company's cash, create a paper or electronic filing system, and safeguard your business from financial fraud
Keep track of inventory – stay on top of your business's purchases, determine which cost formula works for you, and pay your bills accurately and on time
Manage employee payroll – collect EI, CPP/QPP, and federal and provincial income taxes, explore benefit options, and factor in commissions and gratuities
Prepare the books for year-end – investigate how to verify your business's cash, depreciate assets, and adjust the books
Open the book and find:
How to keep track of transactions
The top software packages and how to make them work for you
What records to keep and for how long
Whether or not to offer credit and how to record it
How to record sales, returns, and allowances
What you can and can't depreciate
How to calculate interest and handle interest income and expenses
Everything you need to know about collecting GST/HST
About the Author
Cécile Laurin teaches at Algonquin College and is the co-author of Accounting For Canadians For Dummies.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Lifesaver,
This review is from: Bookkeeping For Canadians For Dummies (Paperback)
Bookkeeping for Canadians is very easy to work with, especially for someone who is not "number oriented". I'm the arts/crafts type. The instructions are very clear, simple to read and understand. I'm hooked on "..........for Dummies" books!
11 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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brutal,
This review is from: Bookkeeping For Canadians For Dummies (Paperback)
Of course these are only my personal opinion, and your experience may vary.I've run a small business for 6 years and have a little bit of bookkeeping experience. I bought this book on sale hoping to improve my skills, however it's my opinion that this book was quite a bad choice. I feel that it is poorly written resulting in confusion and frustration. It was hard for me to follow along, and I feel that it uses terms without sufficiently defining them. I also feel as if the authors don't care to impart the foundational knowledge but rather come from the point of view that "that's the way it is" makes for enough explanation of why things are done they way they are. Of course double entry bookkeeping is "standard" and you can't really change the way things are done, but it would be nice to understand better. Further exacerbating the other problems with the book are what look like bad photocopies of pages representing the books. They're VERY difficult to read. I don't know why they didn't use nice neat tables but they chose to given scans of hand written pages with faded lines, fuzzy text and (in my opinion) poor penmanship. Perhaps they just wanted to show doing books by hand, however I don't think the average reader would be unable to connect hand written books with typed examples of what would be in hand written books. Even if that were true showing one page would be sufficient. I only bought it because it was on sale very cheap, in retrospect I should have gotten a different book. Also this book is the same general size as virtually ever other Dummies book, which makes me wonder if perhaps the reason I've been having trouble with it is because it may have been edited to increase or decrease the length which resulted in more difficult to understand content. That's just my experience, you may enjoy the book, however I have not.
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1.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Brutal,
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This review is from: Bookkeeping For Canadians For Dummies (Paperback)
Of course these are only my personal opinion, and your experience may vary.I've run a small business for 6 years and have a little bit of bookkeeping experience. I bought this book on sale hoping to improve my skills, however it's my opinion that this book was quite a bad choice. I feel that it is poorly written resulting in confusion and frustration. It was hard for me to follow along, and I feel that it uses terms without sufficiently defining them. I also feel as if the authors don't care to impart the foundational knowledge but rather come from the point of view that "that's the way it is" makes for enough explanation of why things are done they way they are. Of course double entry bookkeeping is "standard" and you can't really change the way things are done, but it would be nice to understand better. Further exacerbating the other problems with the book are what look like bad photocopies of pages representing the books. They're VERY difficult to read. I don't know why they didn't use nice neat tables but they chose to given scans of hand written pages with faded lines, fuzzy text and (in my opinion) poor penmanship. Perhaps they just wanted to show doing books by hand, however I don't think the average reader would be unable to connect hand written books with typed examples of what would be in hand written books. Even if that were true showing one page would be sufficient. I only bought it because it was on sale very cheap, in retrospect I should have gotten a different book. Also this book is the same general size as virtually ever other Dummies book, which makes me wonder if perhaps the reason I've been having trouble with it is because it may have been edited to increase or decrease the length which resulted in more difficult to understand content. That's just my experience, you may enjoy the book, however I have not. |
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