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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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2008 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
  Bank Reconciliation Form, Client Letters and Checklists, Other Sample Worksheets, Reference Sources.

Tab 2: Bookkeeping Basics
  IRS Practice Regulations for EAs and CPAs, Other Professional Requirements.

Tab3: Business Start-Up Considerations
  Recording the Purchase/Creation of an Entity, Accounting Methods—Cash vs. Accrual, Types of Entities, Tax Year Alternatives.

Tab 4: Working With Client Records
  Using Software With Client Records, Preparing the Trial Balance, Recording Tax Adjustments in the General Ledger, Reconciling the Tax Return and General Ledger, Record Retention Requirements, Creating and Examples of Charts of Accounts.

Tab 5: Entity Changes
  Converting Type of Entity, Changing Accounting Methods, Changing Accounting Years.

Tab 6: Revenue and Receivables
  Converting Cash to Accrual, Revenue, Accounts Receivable, Bad Debt.

Tab 7: Inventory
  LIFO, FIFO, UNICAP, Inventory Transactions, Cash Method of Accounting, Obsolescence, Shrinkage, Personal Use of Inventory.

Tab 8: Fixed Assets
  Auto Trade-Ins and Other Like-Kind Exchanges, Employee Use of Company-Owned Automobiles, Automobile Allowances, Leasehold Improvements, Obsolete Fixed Assets, Purchased vs. Constructed Assets.

Tab 9: Investments
  Investment Transactions, Original Issue Discount, Earnings on Investments, Reconciling Sales of Investments, Reinvested Dividends.

Tab 10: Intangible Assets
  Recording Intangible Assets, Amortization.

Tab 11: Liabilities
  Converting Cash to Accrual, Current Liabilities, Economic Performance Requirements, Bank Overdrafts, Income Received in Advance, Payroll Liabilities, Long-Term Debt.

Tab 12: Owners' Equity
  Recording Equity Transactions, Equity Section of the Balance Sheet, Treasury Stock, Retained Earnings.

Tab 13: Expenses
  Travel and Entertainment, Charitable Contributions, Income Taxes, Recurring Items.

Tab 14: Payroll and Employee Benefit Programs
  Compensation and Salaries of Related Parties, Recording Payroll Information, Reconciling To Payroll Returns, Reclassifying Cost of Goods Sold, Independent Contractor Issues.

Tab 15: Interest Income and Expense
  Notes Receivable, Notes Payable, Mortgages Payable, Imputed Interest, Interest Receivable, Interest Payable.

Tab 16: Business Liquidation/Dissolution
  Departing Partner, Sale of Business, Satisfaction of Liabilities, Distribution of Assets and Liabilities.

Tab 17: Shareholder and Related Entity Transactions
  Shareholder Loans, Shareholder Distributions, Shareholder Basis and At-Risk Rules, Rent, Other Expenses.

Tab 18: Index

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