Basic Bookkeeping For New Business Start Ups For Marriage And Family Therapy

| Sunday, May 15, 2011
By Kris Colwell


Perhaps a home company is a most efficient trade to begin with economic conditions forcing many companies to streamline. The atmosphere tends to be more casual and work is always at hand any hour of the day. Basic bookkeeping for new business start ups in a home environment can work well.

Accounting of the books might not require meticulous thought at first but it is a necessary job for someone to perform. For example, all invoices must be tracked after one is given to the customer. The owner also gets an invoice copy for his records to record manually for totaling weekly or monthly sales.

A basic record of sales can be done from home using a bookkeeping program. The software is for the single user and it can print out invoices and simultaneously record the sale in a database. The benefit for using home software to keep the books, means no additional work because data is stored and reports are available in real time during the week or at the end of the month. The sales are tallied by the reporting system and then can be printed when needed.

Another bookkeeping transaction is purchasing for the business. Inventory needs to be bought as well as advertising and trade tools to carry on the company. Suppose the small home business is jewelry and the owner makes sales through hosting home parties. Purchases for parties and advertising to invite people are legitimate deductions that can offset income.

Record keeping of expenses are often done manually using a separate banking account for home trade to verify and later record purchases. All the expenses can be charged or paid by check through the bank account. When jewelry orders get paid to buy inventory for home shows; the expense is recorded and can later transferred to bookkeeping software

In summary, basic bookkeeping for new business start ups which do not involve a lot of individual transactions, are handled adequately with manual record keeping. However, it is intentional to grow the jewelry business from the ground up or as far as it can go at home. When the business begins to get larger, software for recording sales and expenses becomes more necessary. Even when things are hectic around home, the invoices and checks still get printed like clockwork.




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