Bookkeeping Techniques For "Morons"
January 4th, 2009
Bookkeeping Techniques For "Morons"
Please don’t think I am calling you a “moron” to hurt your feelings Медицина in any way. I was a moron when I first started setting up my files. You have to force yourself to do it NOW — right at the beginning! Many of a business has collapsed simply because they lacked organization in their basic accounting business practices. Don’t be one of them!
As a small business you don’t have to really do much in the beginning. Here is how to set up your files from ground zero:
1. Take out a hanging file folder and a label of any kind. (Hanging folders and labels for them can be purchased at K-Mart, Wal-Mart антирадар вислер-695 and any office supply store.)
2. Type or hand print “Receipts” on the label and place it on the hanging folder.
3. Now, place 5 MANILA file folders inside the hanging file folder (which you labeled “Receipts”) and label each of the manila file folders with the following headings:
a. Advertising
b. Postage
c. Office Supplies
d. Utilities and Rent for the Office
e. Miscellaneous
You now have one large hanging file folder with 5 separate manila file folders inside it. Carefully place your hanging file folder in your metal file cabinet or cardboard banker’s box. (A banker’s box can be purchased at any office supply store also and normally cost around $4.)
Now, wasn’t that easy? Some of you reading this will think that I am attempting to insult your intelligence. This is NOT
my intention. This report is broken down in a simple, step-by-step way so everybody can understand it — regardless of their previous knowledge and experience. Remember, some people have never worked in an office their entire life. What seems simple and accepted to some of us, may be something another person would never have known.
Okay, let’s go back to where we were. You now have one master file completed and we’re ready to make another just like it. This time we’ll name the hanging file folder “Income” and label 3 manila folders inside it with the following headings: a. SONY DSLR-A300 Completed and Shipped Orders b. Inquiries and Correspondence c. Open Orders Still Pending
See how easy? From now on, you simply make another folder as the need arrives and you’re files will always be easy to maintain. (Once you get this concept down pat — you can easily think about getting a computer. A computer organizes its information in the SAME manner. Believe me — this same system works! You’ll be amazed at how many mistakes it will help you prevent.)
Yes — bookkeeping is a very simple process. All you have to do is keep the system going. For instance, every order that I process, I completely finish before moving on to the next order. Example:
1. Mail is received and opened. As each piece is opened it is placed into individual piles. Orders with pre-payment are placed in one pile, information and daily correspondence in another, and so forth.
2. Each order that San Marcos homes has been pre-paid for is processed first — with each one being processed individually to completion. (That means it is in an envelope, a label typed out and the completed order is ready to Electrolux EKC513508Х be Sigma digital camera digital cameras mailed at the post office.)
3. During the process, the “date,” “amount of check or payment” and “product ordered” is recorded on the outside of the envelope — making sure the customer’s full name, address and telephone number (if available) is on the envelope too.
4. Just before closing up the office for the evening, the envelopes are then keyed into the database on our computer (you can substitute a computer for the hanging files in Beko CG 41011 the beginning.) We record all the information that was written on the envelopes during the processing of the order. (Don’t think you will remember “what” the order was. That thinking will open you up to make human errors.)
If you operate an Internet business, you are going to use computer and email a lot. You need do following:
1. Create different folder in your computer, name it with different resources: marketing, search engine tools, articles and tips, ebooks, ezine lists, picture files…
2. Create folders in your email account, you can save useful emails for different purpose: training, sales, purchase receipt, new customers, prospects… As your business grows, your understanding and abilities will grow also. At that time you can grow Отопительные котлы into a more sophisticated means of keeping the books.
In the meantime — keep good records. They are the lifeblood of any business 3-камерный холодильник and can eventually make isla vista realtor or break you. You’ll thank yourself in the long run.
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