by Stephanie
(USA)
Here is a good bookkeeping article regarding doing an annual review of your bookkeeping practices.
The basic points are:
Success and bookkeeping are essential to every business. Each business will have varying levels of success – and failure – and each level will often coincide with the efficiency of your bookkeeping department.
Tax season has come and gone, and if you are like most, you struggled through receipts, credit card statements, checks, and invoices, attempting to make sense of all the paperwork before handing them to your bookkeeper or accountant to get your taxes filed on time.
Now that the shopping bags filled with paperwork have been emptied it may be time to start a fresh new bookkeeping system. With the software available today there is little reason to fall behind in the bookkeeping department. The bookkeeper needs to be focused, intense, and strictly black and white.
With tax season behind us, it's the perfect time to review the past year of accounting and bookkeeping practices and make the necessary changes you need to increase profits, decrease costs, and make next March and April a little more peaceful.
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