Builder's Guide to Accounting Revised

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Step-by-step, easy-to-follow guidelines for setting up and maintaining records for your building business. This practical guide to all accounting methods shows how to meet state and federal accounting requirements, explains the new depreciation rules, and describes how the Tax Reform Act can affect the way you keep records.

Full of charts, diagrams, simple directions and examples, to help you keep track of where your money is going. Recommended reading for many state contractors exams. Each chapter ends with a set of test questions, and a CD-ROM included FREE has all the questions in interactive self-test software. Use the Study Mode to make studying for the exam much easier, and Exam Mode to practice your skills. 360 pp.

Builder's Guide to Accounting Revised - Table of Contents:

• Section One Sales and Accounts Receivable
  • Why Keep Records?
  • Accounting Methods
  • Cash and Charge Sales
  • Managing Receivables
  • Bad Debt Procedures
  • Sales Records and Cash Budgeting
  • Sales Planning
  • Planning for Profits
• Section Two Costs and Expenses
  • Check Writing and Recording
  • Accounting for materials
  • Payroll Accounting
  • Overhead Expenses
  • Equipment Records
  • Cash Budgeting
  • Cost and Expense Records
  • Accounting for Costs and Expenses
  • Petty Cash Funds
  • Balancing the Checking Account
  • Accounting for Estimates
• Section Three Financial Statements
  • Recording Before the Event
  • Financial Statements
  • Using Financial Information
  • Financial Ratios
  • Putting Together a Statement
  • Comparative Period Statement
  • Restatements by Accounting Methods
  • Statements by Job
  • Statements for Loan Applications
• Appendix
• Index