Keeping accurate accounting records is an important part of running a successful small business. In addition to protecting your business in case of an audit, organized records help provide a picture ...

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Bookkeeping for an online small business can range in complexity from a few simple expense categories to a full system with dozens of categories and subcategories. When you first set up a bookkeeping ...

Accounting is “the language of business,” says G. Blake Manners, a partner at Ernst & Young (EY) in Richmond. Blake is one of this year’s Super CPAs, a group highly fluent in accounting. The list of ...

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For investors, reading corporate financial statements has always required mental toughness. But lately, wading through financial data from companies, especially technology firms, has become especially ...

Marketing Science, Vol. 18, No. 3, Special Issue on Managerial Decision Making (1999), pp. 208-229 (22 pages) Retailers have long recognized that some categories are more important than others in ...

The generally accepted accounting principles give an accounting guideline that allows third parties to fairly evaluate account records. The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board keeps a handbook ...