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Accounting and Bookkeeping Quickfinder® Handbook
Quick answers to accounting and bookkeeping questions - written specifically for tax professionals just like you!
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2010 Tax Edition

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Whether you actively seek to expand your practice, increase your efficiency, or "fill the gaps" with bookkeeping and accounting needs that arise during tax preparation, you'll wonder how you ever lived without this Handbook!

  • Guidance, worksheets, and tons of journal entries showing how to record common transactions in tax-basis accounting records.
  • Overview of ethical and regulatory considerations, working with client records, preparing financial statements.
  • How to create the accounting records you need to prepare tax returns and provide valuable financial information to your clients.
  • Just a few of the many topics covered: Bookkeeping basics; Recording tax adjustments in the general ledger; Reconciling the tax return and general ledger; Recording the purchase/creation of an entity; Booking equity transactions; Using software with client records; Accounting for inventory - LIFO, FIFO, UNICAP; Converting cash to accrual; Accounting for business liquidations - including departing partners and the sale of a business; Recording auto trade-ins; Recording shareholder loans; Changing accounting methods; Changing accounting years.
 

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Tab 1: References and Worksheets

Tab 2: Background Informationp
Professional Requirements, Additional Professional Standards for CPAs, Professional Quality Tax Returns, Reports and Correspondence, Bookkeeping Basics, Accounting Terms, Report Processing Routing Slip, Production Control Log

Tab 3: Business Start-up Considerations
Types of Business Entities, Accounting Methods, Tax Years, Check-the-Box Rules, Starting a New Entity, Purchasing an Existing Business, Organizational and Start-Up Costs

Tab 4: Working With Client Records
Creating a Chart of Accounts, Preparing the Trial Balance, Recording Tax Adjustments in the General Ledger, Reconciling the Tax Return and the General Ledger, Using Software When Working With Client Records, Record Retention Requirements, Cash Receipts Summary Form, Filled-Out Cash Receipts Summary Form, Accounting Information Transmittal Form, Bank Reconciliation Form, Filled-Out Bank Reconciliation Form, Journal Entry Form, Common Tax Reconciling Items, Worksheet for Tracking M-1 Adjustments (Book/Tax Differences), Filled-Out Worksheet for Tracking M-1 Adjustments (Book/Tax Differences), Filled-Out Schedule M-1-Heather's Feathers, Inc., Filled-Out Schedule M-2-Heather's Feathers, Inc., Appropriated Retained Earnings Schedule?Heather?s Feathers, Inc.

Tab 5: Entity Changes
Converting Type of Entity, Changing Accounting Methods, Changing Tax Year

Tab 6: Revenue and Receivables
Recording Revenue-Cash Method, Recording Revenue-Accrual Method, Advance Payments Received, Installment Sales, Long-Term Contracts Income, Life Insurance Proceeds, Recording Accounts Receivable, Bad Debts, Factoring Accounts Receivable, Adjusting Accounts Receivable for a Change of Accounting Method

Tab 7: Inventory
Components of Inventory, Cash vs. Accrual Method for Inventory, Tracking Inventory, Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions, UNICAP Adjustment, Domestic Production Activities Deduction, Obsolescence, Shrinkage and Loss of Inventory, Personal and Other Use of Inventory, Consigned Inventory, Filled-Out Worksheet for Allocation of Indirect Costs to Ending Inventory Under Section 263A, Worksheet for Allocation of Indirect Costs to Ending Inventory Under Section 263A, Deduction Allowed for Contributions for Care of the Ill, the Needy or Infants Worksheet

Tab 8: Capitalized Assets
Capitalize vs. Expense, Purchased Assets, Section 263A UNICAP Rules, Self-Constructed Assets, Leasehold Improvements, Depreciation and Amortization, Depletion, Sales and Exchanges, Obsolescence

Tab 9: Investments
Recording the Purchase and Sale of an Investment, Interest Income, Dividend Income, Bonds With a Discount or Premium, U. S. Savings Bonds, Capital Gains and Losses, Worthless Securities, Other Investment Transactions, Worksheet for Calculating the Limitation on the Dividends-Received Deduction, Worksheet for Tracking Mutual Fund Share Basis, Worksheet for Tracking Capital Loss Carryover

Tab 10: Intangible Assets
What Are Intangible Assets?, Section 197 Intangible Assets, Organizational Costs, Start-Up Costs, Research and Development Costs, Computer Software Costs, Prepaid Expenses

Tab 11: Liabilities
Accounting for Liabilities, Economic Performance, Recurring Item Exception, Accounts Payable Processing, Long-Term Debt

Tab 12: Owner's Equity
Equity Transactions, Corporations, S Corporations, Partnerships and LLCs, Sole Proprietorships

Tab 13: Expenses
Charitable Contributions, Travel and Entertainment, Recording Income Taxes, Recording Nondeductible Expenses, Recording Deductions in Excess of Basis

Tab 14: Payroll and Employee Benefit Programs
Payroll Services, Accounting for Payroll, Reconciling Payroll Information, Fringe Benefits, Retirement Plans, Reconciliation of Forms 941 to Forms W-3 and 940, Payroll Deduction Account Analysis

Tab 15: Interest Expense
Deducting Interest Expense, Nondeductible and Deferred Interest Expense, Capitalized Interest Expense, Prepaid Interest, Interest Tracing Rules, Investment Interest Expense

Tab 16: Business Dispositions
Corporations, Partnerships

Tab 17: Related Entity Transactions
Who Are Related Parties?, Losses Between Related Parties, Expenses, Shareholder Loans, Basis and At-Risk Rules

Tab 18: Index
Easy-to-use Topical Index


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