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Accounting Basics for Small Business: A Simple Guide

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Next, you’ll take some basic steps to set up your bookkeeping process and ensure that all your business finances are accurately reflected in your books and available for analysis. Choose your bookkeeping method. A little example to illustrate how the double-entry method works. Set up a general ledger.

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Basic Accounting for a Small Business: Bookkeeping and Accounting Basics

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Single-entry bookkeeping vs. double-entry bookkeeping. The single-entry method suggests entering each transaction only once. It’s a rather simple method of bookkeeping that doesn’t provide for your inventory, for example. For example, upon a sale, you record the sum of the purchase in your account.