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Accounting Basics for Small Business: A Simple Guide

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It’s necessary to distinguish between accounting and bookkeeping because people often confuse these two notions. Bookkeeping is a part of a business accounting system that focuses on recording and administering financial transactions. Let’s go through the basic federal taxes for small businesses including: Income tax.

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Basic Accounting for a Small Business: Bookkeeping and Accounting Basics

Snyder

Here you’ll use data from sales receipts, payments made to the supplier, rent payments, income tax payments, and many other operating activities. We spoke about cash basis and accrual basis accounting when discussing 3 main financial statements. Single-entry bookkeeping vs. double-entry bookkeeping.