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Complete Idiot's Guide you get: Part: 1 Getting Started Chapter 1. Mastering Financial Management
Recognizing a Necessary Evil Understanding the Financial Side of Business Solid Reasons to Manage
Finances Getting Ahead with Finance Chapter 2. From Strategy to Business Plan Defining a Strategy
Strategic Characteristics Building a Business Plan Another Reason to Have a Business Plan Business
Plan Objectives Business Plan Shortfalls Business Plan Components Chapter 3. Budgeting 101 The
Budget: A Definition Stepping into the Budgeting Process Budget Components Drafting a Budget Part: 2
Accounting for Your Success Chapter 4. The Accountant in You What's So Important About Accounting?
Accounting IS Communication Great Expectations Understanding Debits and Credits T for Two Accrual
vs. Cash Basis Accounting Chapter 5. Your Company's General Ledger The Purposes of a General Ledger
The General Ledger Does Not Stand Alone Setting Up the General Ledger Making Journal Entries
Batching General Ledger Entries Balancing Out On the Audit Trail Chapter 6. The Chart of Accounts A
Reliable Guide Creating the Chart of Accounts What's in a Name? What's in a Number? Chapter 7.
Accounts Receivable Listing Items of Value Adding Up the Info Automating Receivables Credit Entries
A Case Study Tracking Receivables Maximizing Your Collections Efforts Chapter 8. Accounts Payable
Going Manual Embracing Automation Accruable Accounts Payable Entries to Your Accounts Payable
Keeping Payables on Track Carry That Weight Managing Disbursement: Where the Accounts Payable System
Earns Its Keep Trade Discounts Can Add Up! Other Opportunities Courtesy of Accounts Payable Chapter
9. Watching Your Cash Flow What Is Cash Flow? Maxim 1 Beware the Cash Crunch! Time to Cut Costs
Maxims 2 and 3 When Times Get Really Tough Maxim 4 Maxim 5 Final Options When Darkness Falls Part: 3
Managing with Accounting Chapter 10. Managing Payroll Establishing a Payroll System The Cost of
Payroll Withholding Taxes Accounting for Benefits Chapter 11. Inventory Control Identifying Your
Inventory Developing an Inventory Control (I/C) System Tracking Inventory Flow Accounting for
Inventory Control Measuring the Cost of Goods Sold Tracking Inventory Performance The Secret to
Inventory Management Chapter 12. Cost Accounting Everything Costs Something A Manufacturing Example
Tracking Cost Flow Cost System Types Setting Up the General Ledger Accounting for Overhead
Standardizing Costs Chapter 13. Managing Internal Controls An Ounce of Prevention Establishing
Internal Controls The Bottom Line: Cost Setting Up a Control System Keeping Tabs on Inventory
Watching Payroll Handling Internal Cash Accounts Can You Beat the System? Part: 4 Sources of Funds
and Acumen Chapter 14. Managing Commercial Lenders Business Is Business Are You a Good Candidate?
Types of Loans Picking a Lender Getting the Loan The Paperwork Personal Guarantees Building Lender
Relationships Chapter 15. Utilizing Venture Capital An Investment, Not a Loan What to Expect from
Venture Capitalists Finding the Right Venture Capital Firm Don't Discount Informal Investors
Attracting the Interest of Venture Capitalists Knocking on the Right Doors Red Flags Involving Your
Venture Capitalist Chapter 16. Proprietorship, Partnership, or Incorporation? Business Building
Blocks Considering Sole Proprietorships When to Partner and When to Pass Going Corporate Filling Out
the Forms Boards, Bylaws, and Banking Resolutions Corporate Liability to Shareholders Part: 5 Your
Company's Tax Obligations Chapter 17. Your Business Obligations to Uncle Sam First Step: Hire a
Competent Tax Professional Accounting for Business Income The $10,000 Business Cash Question Filing
Schedule C Taxes Professional Deductions New Business Deductions Chapter 18. Sharpening Company Tax
Smarts Accounting for Employment Taxes Paying Corporate Income Taxes Taking Care of Other Taxes
Using Depreciation of Assets First-Year Expensing Deduction Chapter 19. Partnerships, S
Corporations, and Limited Liability Companies Structures, Structures, Structures Partnership Profit
and Loss Reporting Taxes and the S Corporation What Is a Limited Liability Company? Part: 6
Strategies for Growth Chapter 20. Developing a Financial Plan Types of Required Capital Establishing
a Schedule of Start-Up Costs The Balance Sheet Computing Profit and Loss Chapter 21. Forecasting
Your Future The Dynamics of Projection Building an Assumption Statement Composing a Better Sales
Forecast Controlling Cash Flow Chapter 22. Preserving the Bottom Line Hiring a Money Manager What
Money Managers Do Qualifications of a Money Manager Working with Your Money Manager Understanding
the Market Keeping Track Investment Terminology Chapter 23. Developing Growth Strategies Identifying
Product Life Cycles Business Life Cycles Controlled Growth vs. Explosive Growth Planning Ahead
Evaluating Your Management Chapter 24. Partnering with Vendors Beyond the Buying/Selling
Relationship Defining Partnering Conditions Identifying Vendor Partners Establishing a Partnership
Plan What Should Your Vendor Partner Agreement Include? Potential Pitfalls of Partnering Chapter 25.
Troubleshooting Your Business System Is Trouble Brewing? Is It a Good Control System? Auditing the
Business Reviewing Decision-Making Systems Ten Measurements of Effectiveness Appendix A: What's My
Data? Scenario 1: Your Department on the Line Scenario 2: ExpansionŠor Else Scenario 3: So Many
Figures, So Little Time Scenario 4: The Check Is in the Mail Scenario 5: The Devil Is into Details
Scenario 6: No Need to Worry About Good Buys Scenario 7: Better Than a Crystal Ball Scenario 8:
Rounding Up Stray Cattle Scenario 9: Beating the Salary Stalk Scenario 10: Deep in the Art of Taxes
Appendix B: Flexing Your Financial Muscles Scenario A: What's It to You? Scenario B: Banking on Your
Inventory Scenario C: Opportunities Lost, Figure the Cost Scenario D: Cash and Collateral Scenario
E: Riding Cycles Scenario F: Go with the Flow Scenario G: Welcome to Accrual World Scenario H:
Variables on the Rise Scenario I: Joining the Bucket Brigade Scenario J: Do You Know How to Have
Funds? Appendix C: Glossary 40 MB pdf
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