What's Your Number? An Accounting Blog
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What's Your Number? An Accounting Blog

Keeping track of income and expenses is essential, even if you don't own a business. And if you do own a business, things get even more complicated. There are paychecks to issue, taxes to track, and subcontractors to pay out. All of these details are a whole lot less challenging when you hire an accountant to oversee them. However, it is still important to know a little bit about accounting yourself. Dig into the articles on this website, and you'll gain a better understanding of accounting principles, what services accountants really offer, and the benefits of hiring these professionals to assist with your finances.

What's Your Number? An Accounting Blog

  • Suspect Embezzling In Your Store? Take These Steps

    20 January 2020

    If you're missing funds from your store's financial accounts, you could have an embezzler within your ranks. Embezzlers are people who take money from their clients or employers. People who embezzle funds often use undetectable methods, such as falsifying records or manipulating numbers, to take small amounts of money from your accounts over a period of time. Here are steps you may consider taking to find the suspected embezzler in your company.

  • Starting A Social Media Empire? 4 Tax Tips You Need

    17 January 2020

    Are you going into the potentially lucrative business of building a social media or blogging presence? Modern entrepreneurs have more opportunities than ever before to earn money at home, doing things that they love. But just as with any commercial endeavor, it's important to understand how to stay within the tax rules in order to avoid legal and financial trouble.  So, what should you know about taxes as you grow your branded business?

  • What Is Job Costing? Why Should You Be Doing It?

    16 January 2020

    If you do long-term projects for clients, you need to be able to track costs accurately and regularly. And one of your biggest tools to ensure that you continue to earn a profit for such long jobs is known as "job costing". What is job costing? And how can it benefit your business? Here are a few answers. What Is Job Costing? At its heart, job costing is the act of tracking expenses related to each particular project (job) and assigning them correctly to that job.

  • Ready To Hire Employees And Expand Your Business? Outsource Your Payroll Needs First

    16 January 2020

    If your one-person business now has a need to hire some employees and you are ready to expand, you have to be ready to take on the payroll responsibilities. If you have no idea how to do payroll and what it entails, find the help of a professional. This is a service worth outsourcing so there are no mistakes. You take these things into consideration when hiring someone for your payroll needs.