Accounts Bookkeeping & Accounting Practitioners Need to Know

If you’re a business who doesn’t have a bookkeeper, and you find keeping track of all your assets and liabilities to be a personal issue, you’ll want to hire a bookkeeper as soon as possible. Best bookkeeping and accounting principles are that the bookkeeper you end up hiring understands basic accounting principles. It’s important that they know how to read and communicate basic accounting terms

Financial Sheets You Need to Know for Bookkeeping and Accounting

There are a few financial sheets in which you’re new bookkeeper is going to need to know how to assess and write. These financial sheets include assets, liabilities, equity, income, and expenses.

Assets

Assets are important for both bookkeeping and accounting. These numbers determine a company’s own financial value. They are tangible and intangible items, and they should be recorded properly and accurately, so you can balance the rest of your financial sheets.

Any mistakes with reporting assets can mislead your whole entire financial representation.

Liabilities

Liabilities are important to know, because they explain a business’s value in terms of loss. They pretty much explain the numbers of what you owe to others in regards of money. Also, liabilities can be classified as long term or current.

Classified liabilities of current are statements you owe, and plan to pay with current assets. Long term liabilities are statements of what you owe, but is planned to be paid off in months or even years.

Knowing these are important for important for those who practice both bookkeeping and accounting.

Equity

Equity is the total amount of money that stockholders and/or owners pay for, outright, to have portioned ownership of the company.

This is important to record, because you need to keep track of your own share of the business. You have to make sure you know how much you own, and how much others own.

Income

You need to know income, because income explains to you how much you are selling, or loosing. This also shows you the flow of cash in terms of receiving others interests and dividends earned on marketable securities.

Realized income are taxable income, but realized income, depending on the bookkeeping and accounting methods used, can be accepted differently. It can be counted either as soon as you invoiced the revenue into the accounting system, known as accrual basis accounting. Or if you wait until the invoice is paid, known as cash basis accounting.

Expenses

Expenses for both a bookkeeping and accounting profession are generally the same practice. Knowing how to attribute expenses as a temporary account that is arbitrated in a set period, and then reset back to zero for the new accounting period is generally performed automatically.

Expenses such as depreciation expense and accumulated depreciations are to be monitored thoroughly in order to produce proper revenue.

Be Exact With Your Financial Sheets

It’s important for you, as a bookkeeping and accounting practitioner to be as thorough as possible when recording finances. Make sure you provide exact numbers when you make your explanations of your client’s financial reports and situation.

It’s important that you understand the big picture of your clients goals, and financial implementations. Being able to portray the big picture of your client’s financial situation is important for both a practitioner of bookkeeping and accounting to do.

Make sure you get the job done ahead of schedule, with the same amount of quality work you have always put into your bookkeeping and accounting practices. You just never know when you’ll need financial statements for analysis.