Bookkeeping & Accounting All–in–One For Dummies, UK Edition

Introduction 1 Book I: Basic Bookkeeping 5 Chapter 1: So You Want to Do the Books 7 Chapter 2: Getting Down to Bookkeeping Basics 19 Chapter 3: Outlining Your Financial Roadmap with a Chart of Accounts 39 Chapter 4: Looking at Ledgers 57 Book II: Bookkeeping Day to Day 83 Chapter 1: Planning and Controlling Your Workload 85 Chapter 2: Counting Your Sales 99 Chapter 3: Buying and Tracking Your Purchases 125 Chapter 4: Doing Your Banking 141 Book III: Undertaking Monthly and Quarterly Tasks 155 Chapter 1: Adding the Cost of Value-Added Tax (VAT) 157 Chapter 2: Employee Payroll and Benefits 171 Chapter 3: Adjusting Your Books 191 Book IV: Working to Prepare Financial Statements 209 Chapter 1: Producing a Profit and Loss Statement 211 Chapter 2: Developing a Balance Sheet 227 Chapter 3: Cash Flows and the Cash Flow Statement 245 Book V: Accountants: Managing the Business 269 Chapter 1: Discovering Different Business Types 271 Chapter 2: Choosing Accounting Methods 281 Chapter 3: Managing Profit Performance 307 Chapter 4: Cost Conundrums 331 Chapter 5: Business Budgeting: 355 Book VI: Accountants: Working with the Outside World 379 Chapter 1: Getting a Financial Report Ready for Prime Time 381 Chapter 2: How Investors Read a Financial Report 401 Chapter 3: Professional Auditors and Advisers 431 Index 445