Sunday, April 17, 2011

Some Basic Bookkeeping For New Business Start Ups Ideas

By Zara Mazur Colwell


So you are starting your new company and are very excited about it. One thing you must understand in order to have a successful company, you must keep up with it. You do not want to have monetary problems later, simply because lack of proper bookkeeping. These are the basic bookkeeping for new business start ups tips that you will need.

The best thing that you can do is keep a record of everything you do. You want to have all your financial records in order in case the company is ever audited by the IRS. Having the proper records in order will ensure that you are able to go back and find everything quickly.

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.

Another thing you must do is remain consistent with the way that you record your finances. If you started keeping track of things with a financial book, then continue to record things for the following month on the same financial book. Do not constantly change around as this will make it easy to lose things. If you keep the records stored on a computer for this month, then do so the following month as well.

When you get the bank statement for the company be sure to carefully check off everything with your daily records. This will ensure that everything is in order the way that it should be. Do not assume that it is and just store it away. Look through the credit and debits done on your statement and compare them to the ones you manually stored on your financial record.

These are important basic bookkeeping for new business start ups tips. They will help you have everything in order should you ever need to look back into your financial records. If your business gets audit by the IRS then you will have everything in order.




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1 comment:

Ivo Merlos said...

A bookkeeper is one of the best assets you could find for your company, since it will lessen the burden you're going to have, due to the fact that they will take care of the financial aspect of your business, such as filing the right documents for tax and archiving it without any discrepancies.