Quicken is popular personal financial management software from Intuit; QuickBooks is a financial software solution from the same organization aimed at small businesses. As long...

There are set rules on when to increase COLA and based on the Consumer Price Index latest review (2008 to 2011), the 2012 COLA raise should mean good news for those receiving...

As this year ends, why not make a New Year’s business resolution and focus a marked effort to organize your company’s financials? If you plan all year long, when tax...

People go into business because they have an interest in producing a specific product or service. The last thing they want to do is wade their way through all kinds of financial ratios...

How much does it cost to make the product or service you sell? Do you know how to determine overhead, labor and raw materials costs? What about analyzing the financial statements...

Are you looking for some expert advice to help you with your retail accounting? Browse this guide of tips, techniques and resources from the Bright Hub library of general accounting...

Inventory is essential to every business and if you don't understand the various types of inventory methods to determine inventory values and controls your business will fail fast!...

For business payroll or accounting departments, it's important to ensure you know all the rules when it comes to payroll, deductions and when overtime pay is due. Take our quick...

Accounting can be quite complex but those who love it know the accounting cycle is really a science because all those debits and credits make your books balance. Do you think you know...

TurboTax Deluxe for Mac is a great alternative to spending hundreds of dollars at a tax preparation company. If you're a Mac user you know there aren't many other choices. Here's...

Quicken is popular personal financial management software from Intuit; QuickBooks is a financial software solution from the same organization aimed at small businesses. As long...

As this year ends, why not make a New Year’s business resolution and focus a marked effort to organize your company’s financials? If you plan all year long, when tax...

People go into business because they have an interest in producing a specific product or service. The last thing they want to do is wade their way through all kinds of financial ratios...

Whether you're starting your own small business or if you're already managing a successful enterprise, there are ways to streamline your forecasting processes. At the end of...

When looking at a financial statement, do the numbers just seem to be a jumbled mess? There actually are specific methods you can use to analyze the information, and this guide...

Are you a small business owner who is concerned with how implementation of the 999 tax plan would impact your business? This interview with an expert on these issues is a must read...

What important lessons can be learned in revisiting the key milestones in the history of accounting? Here, readers will come to understand that even in the earliest levels of civilization;...

What are some of the mega giants who have lost it all in bankruptcy filings? Here, we’ll take you through a pictorial look at ten of them with a synopsis on what went wrong...

The advent of MS Excel spreadsheets and templates has somehow dispelled the general notion that accounting work is tedious and monotonous. Here, small business owners will find loads...

Who’s afraid of being audited? Most business owners are, and they dread the day they might receive an IRS audit notification. Actually, the fear stems primarily from not knowing...

How much does it cost to make the product or service you sell? Do you know how to determine overhead, labor and raw materials costs? What about analyzing the financial statements...

Are you looking for some expert advice to help you with your retail accounting? Browse this guide of tips, techniques and resources from the Bright Hub library of general accounting...

Inventory is essential to every business and if you don't understand the various types of inventory methods to determine inventory values and controls your business will fail fast!...

For business payroll or accounting departments, it's important to ensure you know all the rules when it comes to payroll, deductions and when overtime pay is due. Take our quick...

Accounting can be quite complex but those who love it know the accounting cycle is really a science because all those debits and credits make your books balance. Do you think you know...

TurboTax Deluxe for Mac is a great alternative to spending hundreds of dollars at a tax preparation company. If you're a Mac user you know there aren't many other choices. Here's...

Ask any CPA or tax professional and they will tell you the trial balance is the most important financial tool of all when it comes to financial statements. Every debit and credit you...

How much do you know about using loss leaders in line with managerial accounting concerns? Loss incurrence when using this strategy is inevitable; hence, business owners and...

Do you view the accounting professional as little more than a bean counter with a calculator? If this is you, be prepared to lose your business to the taxman and your customers...

What’s your working capital IQ? Take this quiz to learn how much you know about managing current assets in order to meet all current obligations. The formula for determining...

There are set rules on when to increase COLA and based on the Consumer Price Index latest review (2008 to 2011), the 2012 COLA raise should mean good news for those receiving...

Recent days have brought two protests on why you should change your bank. The first was on Saturday, November 5, and the second one came on Election Day for many—Tuesday, November...

It appears some CPAs in high-up positions think the testing and registration fees are too expensive for some tax professionals, especially those small CPA firms. These higher-ups also...

As the year draws to an end, most business owners are already thinking about profits, losses and above all—tax returns. The anxiousness of this time of year may never really be...

If you’re scrambling to pay your vendors or meet payroll expenses, is it a good idea to sell your receivables at a loss? This is becoming more popular in todays’ down...

Most business owners just can’t make it these days without great accounting software right? Whether it’s Quickbooks, Quicken or some other accounting package, once learned...

Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan's recent statement that we can simply print more money can be interpreted in two ways. Is he bonkers, or he is trying to make a point about our...

Standard and Poor's--aka S&P--has roamed outside its prescribed jurisdiction in downgrading the United States' credit rating. Let's look at this agency. Not only does...

There are very few people who are happy with the legislation concerning our nation’s debt ceiling, just signed into law on August 2, 2011. On August 5, Standard & Poor downgraded...

Many online retailers are wondering whether the so-called California Amazon tax is unconstitutional; their hope is that the tax is unconstitutional, which could save their businesses...