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GAAP: What It Is and Why Your Investors Expect It

inDinero Accounting

The components of GAAP can be broken down into two main categories: accounting procedures and reporting standards. On the accounting side, GAAP requires specific methods for recording transactions, such as double-entry bookkeeping, which involves debiting one account while crediting another in order to maintain accuracy in recording data.

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Accounting Basics for Small Business: A Simple Guide

Snyder

Go through business bookkeeping basics. Get to know small business tax obligations and procedures. In general, business accounting is the process of organizing and analyzing a company’s financial information to plan and advise on taxes, file tax returns, make forecasts, and help with data-driven financial decision making.

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Basic Accounting for a Small Business: Bookkeeping and Accounting Basics

Snyder

Accounting for a small business usually means summarizing and analyzing financial transactions, producing accounting reports, and timely providing data for tax purposes and tax returns. Here you’ll use data from sales receipts, payments made to the supplier, rent payments, income tax payments, and many other operating activities.