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The Role Of An Accountant: A Guide To Today’s Accountant’s Roles, Duties, And Responsibilities

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From early Mesopotamian records of goods sold and bought around 7,000 years ago to the first bookkeepers recording barters of goods around 2000 B.C. From the first attempts at single-entry bookkeeping in the 1400s to the invention of double-entry bookkeeping almost a hundred years after.

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Accounting Basics for Small Business: A Simple Guide

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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. Let’s start with defining what small business accounting is. Set up a general ledger.

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Basic Accounting for a Small Business: Bookkeeping and Accounting Basics

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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. Single-entry bookkeeping vs. double-entry bookkeeping.