Bookkeeping and Accounting Articles
January 18 2021
How to Determine Your Competitive Edge
This article describes how small businesses can determine their competitive edge and use the Live Plan Lean Planning process to document, evaluate and focus on the necessary business information needed to build a financial roadmap.Read more
April 13 2020
How to create a one page business plan using the Lean Planning Process and LivePlan
Lean business planning is a way to optimize your business with focus, specific steps, tracking results, and changing quickly. The principles of lean business planning are to do only what you need, track and review often, expect change, develop accountability, and remember it’s planning, not accounting.
March 6 2020
Three Basic Forms of Business Organization
In the United States, most business enterprises are organized as sole proprietorships, partnerships, or corporations. However, a limited liability company is a business entity type that provides a partnership or sole proprietorship with the limited liability protection of a corporation.
February 25 2020
The Basics of Job Costing
Job order costing is typically used by businesses that tailor their goods and services to the specific needs of individual customers. In job order costing, the costs of direct materials, direct labor, and overhead are accumulated separately for each job.
January 30 2020
The advantages and disadvantages of budgeting
A budget is a comprehensive financial plan setting forth the expected route for achieving the financial and operational goals of your business. Budgeting is an essential step in effective financial planning. Even the smallest business will benefit from preparing a formal written plan for its future operations.
January 22 2020
How to create a budget for your business
A business may need a budget in order to model what its future results and cash flows will look like. Doing so gives management a reasonable idea of how much it can spend, and how much new revenue it should expect.
January 15 2020
Types of budgeting models
There are a number of alternative budgeting models available that include, static budgeting, zero-based budgeting, flexible budgeting, incremental budgeting, the rolling budget, and the rolling forecast.
January 7 2020
The objectives of budgeting
Budgeting helps business to provide structure, predict cash flows, allocate resources, model scenarios and measure performance.
December 17 2019
The difference between a budget and a forecast
The key difference between a budget and a forecast is that a budget lays out the plan for what a business wants to achieve, while a forecast states its actual expectations for results, usually in a much more summarized format.
December 9 2019
How to create a financial plan for your business
Proper financial planning will increase your company’s ability to foresee and address potential problems, and to adapt to any changes that may arise.
December 4 2019
Key steps to planning your cash flow for next year
Making cash flow and other financial projections each year is a vital tool for keeping your business healthy and on a sustainable growth path.
November 26 2019
Key components of the financial and operational planning process for small businesses - Part 6 The Relationships Among Financial Statements
The statement of financial position (balance sheet), the income statement, and the statement of cash flows are all based on the same transactions, but they present different “views” of your business.
November 20 2019
Key components of the financial and operational planning process for small businesses - Part 5 The Cash Flow Statement
A cash flow statement presents the change in cash for a period of time in terms of your business’ operating, investing and financing activities.
November 16 2019
Key components of the financial and operational planning process for small businesses - Part 4 The Balance Sheet
Your balance sheet is a snapshot of your business’s financial position.
November 5 2019
Key components of the financial and operational planning process for small businesses - Part 3 The Profit and Loss Statement
A profit and loss statement shows your businesses revenue and expense activity over a designated period of time.
October 29 2019
Key components of the financial and operational planning process for small businesses - Part 2 The Sales Forecast
The sales forecast is your projections, or forecast, of what you think you might sell during a defined period.
October 24 2019
Key components of the financial and operational planning process for small businesses - Part 1 Basics of Budgeting
A budget is a comprehensive financial plan setting forth the expected route for achieving the financial and operational goals of your business.
October 19 2019
How to get started with a cloud accounting system using QuickBooks Online
A cloud accounting system will make your life so much easier and give you the critical numbers for your business in real time.
September 11 2019
Using Financial Ratios To Improve Your Business
Financial ratios provide business owners a way to evaluate their company’s performance and compare it other similar businesses in their industry.
August 29 2019