Small business owners take on a range of responsibilities that are handled by specialized departments in larger companies. Accounting is often one of these functions, especially in the startup phase.

You can build a product, pitch investors, and run growth experiments — but nothing feels more avoidable than setting up ...

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A new iPhone app aims to teach double-entry bookkeeping to accounting students and non-accountants. StudyAccounting allows users to practice posting transactions to the correct accounts by tapping ...

When running a small construction business, you need to account for your revenues and expenses. You can achieve this task by following the accounting cycle -- that is, the chronological events of ...

The eight-step accounting cycle is important to know for all types of bookkeepers. It breaks down the entire process of a bookkeeper's responsibilities into eight basic steps. Many of these steps can ...