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Bookkeeping Cleanup Checklist: Six Steps to Get Caught Up

Less Accounting

Reconcile bank statements The next step in your bookkeeping cleanup checklist is to reconcile your bank statements. You may have to manually add transactions that are not in your accounting software to ensure that you can successfully reconcile your bank statement. Is each transaction reflected in your accounting software?

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Eight Ways Your Business Can Prepare for Tax Season

Less Accounting

Start by reviewing all your transactions and reconciling them. Assess Your Bookkeeping System While you prepare for tax season, it may be a great time to evaluate if your business is best served by using cash basis or accrual accounting. Learn more about cash basis vs. accrual accounting here.

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Adjusting entries definition

Accounting Tools

The first is the accrual entry, which is used to record a revenue or expense that has not yet been recorded through a standard accounting transaction. Reversing Entries Since adjusting entries so frequently involve accruals and deferrals, it is customary to set up these entries as reversing entries.

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Free Excel Bookkeeping Templates to Keep Your Books in Order

Jetpack Workflow

For businesses using the accrual method of accounting, it means double the work, entering data twice for every transaction. Some advantages of using software for bookkeeping include the following: Reduces manual tasks, such as uploading bank transactions, sending invoices, and reconciling ledgers. Run payroll. Saves costs.

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ScaleFactor Fails to Scale, Blames COVID-19

Cloud Accounting Podcast

If you've ever tried to get your clients' Stripe, Square, or PayPal transactions into QuickBooks or Xero, you've probably pulled your hair out a few times trying to get income and fees recorded correctly so that the deposit amounts match the bank statement so you can reconcile. You go back in time to desktop computers, and desktop software.