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Step-by-step, easy-to-follow guidelines for setting up and maintaining records for your building
business.
Builder's Guide to Accounting with CD is a comprehensive, completely revised and updated guide to construction accounting that tells you in plain English how to choose, set up and maintain an appropriate, efficient, and practical bookkeeping system for your construction 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. It is full of charts, diagrams, simple directions and examples, all to help you
keep track of where your money is going.
Full of charts, diagrams, simple directions and examples to help you keep track of where your money is going.
There is NO incomprehensible economics/accounting theory here. Theory is little help when it's month end and the books don't balance. This book delivers real help that you can use right now.
You get straightforward, practical information and advice on how to:
- Build a customized accounting system from the ground up
- Set up an easy-to-use depreciation system that complies with IRS rules
- Keep records of job costs
- do trend analysis & budgeting
- Handle sales & accounts receivable
- Set bad debt procedures
- Manage payroll, materials & inventory
- Prepare financial statements - when, how, which & why
- Maintain ledgers and balance sheets
- Close the books
This book will prove invaluable for:
- Students studying for contractor’s license exams
- Teachers of contractor’s license preparation courses
- Self-employed builders & construction contractors
- Developers
This book is for students, teachers, and builders who want to check their understanding as they go
along. This new edition includes a self-test section at the end of each chapter. Test yourself, then
check the answers in the back of the book to see how you did.
Recommended reading for many state contractor’s exams:
- Each chapter ends with a set of test questions
- Free CD-ROM included - has all the questions in interactive self-test software
- Use the Study Mode to make studying for the exam much easier
- Use the Exam Mode to practice your skills
The author: Michael C. Thomsett has been a consultant for numerous construction and engineering firms over the last 20 years, specializing in introducing practical business systems for builders and contractors. He is the author of 48 books on business and finance, and more than 500 articles in national trade and business magazines.
Includes: Book & CD-ROM with all the questions in interactive self-test software
Published by: Craftsman Book Company
ISBN: 1-57218-105-2
360 Pages, 8-1/2 x 11
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