Tuesday 7 June 2011

The Best Basic Bookkeeping For New Business Start Ups Advice

By Andrew Tailor Smith


You now have a new company opening up and are thrilled about it. This can be exciting however if you want to maintain this new company you must also constantly keep up with it as well. In order to avoid financial problems, you must have the proper bookkeeping for it. These are the basic bookkeeping for new business start ups ideas that you can follow.

One of the most important tip you can have is to keep record of everything. You want to have everything in order, should your company ever get audit by the IRS. This is also helpful, if there ever is a financial problem, you are able to go back and check where the problem lies.

Any credits or debits done from the company financial account, must be recorded. This must also be done with any voided checks that were made. List all the check numbers in order and include these voided checks in there. This will help you keep everything accurate and easy to find any mistakes.

Remain consistent with the way you keep your financial records. If you are already doing everything by hand on a certain financial record book, then do the same for each month. Do not do last months in that financial record book and this months on the computer. Staying consistent with the way you keep your records can definitely help things keep everything in its proper order.

When the bank issues you a bank statement for the month, do not just store it away. Look at it and compare it to the records you have on your computer or on your finance book. Check each debit or credit transaction posted on your statement to ensure that everything is done properly. Keep this statement stored with the same records for that month.

These are simple, yet important basic bookkeeping for new business start up tips. It will help you keep record and order of all that is done with the company financial account. Should you ever get a letter stating that you are being audited, you will have everything in order and will not have to worry.




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