Bookkeeping


Recent Bookkeeping Articles

Constant Contact Out Of Touch

Who uses Constant Contact anymore? Someone does. Would you believe they actually still have about 350,000 accounts. What a sad statement for a company tha...  Read more

How to Use WordPress for Business

If you're looking to expand your brand online with a blog, a website, or both, here's what you need to know about WordPress.  Read more

Four Mobile Credit Card Processing Services

Applications such as Square and GoPayment let you take payments with your phone.  Read more

Cross-Brower Testing

Web-based software vendors have a pressing concern that other businesses do not have – the cross-browser issue. A solution that end-users access v...  Read more

Keeping Tabs on Your Employees' Facebook Activity

A new software will allow you to track everything your employees publicly do on social media. But should you?  Read more

Tips On Streamlining Accounts Payable

Is your bookkeeping system failing to keep up with the rate of growth at your business? Here are some tips for upgrading your accounts payable process.  Read more

How to Set Up Accounts Receivable

Who owes you money? Here's how to set up a bookkeeping and billing system to keep track of your accounts receivable.  Read more

Tips for Streamlining Accounts Receivable

If you feel you are not getting paid promptly and in full by your customers, here are some simple ways to upgrade your billing system.  Read more

How to Set Up Accounts Payable

Here are some simple guidelines to follow in order to formalize your bookkeeping system for business payments and outstanding invoices.  Read more

How to Use Google's Tools for Building an Online Storefront

For small businesses just beginning to build an online presence, turning to cheap - or free - Google tools can be a simple solution.  Read more

How to Track Your Company's Critical Numbers

Working with a great accountant is an asset; leaning too hard on one can be a flaw. Here are key steps to boosting financial literacy and keeping a simple gu...  Read more

How to Create a Personal Financial Statement

If you own a small business or are self-employed, this guide will help you track income and expenses on a regular basis.  Read more

Do You Have to Pay Employees for Snow Days?

You still need to hand over a paycheck for a snow day in most cases, according to the Labor Department.  Read more

Using Crowdsourcing to Control Inventory

ModCloth's Be the Buyer program lets customers tell the company exactly what they want.  Read more

How to Write the Financial Section of a Business Plan

An outline of your company's growth strategy is essential to a business plan, but it just isn't complete without the numbers to back it up. Here's some advic...  Read more

How to Choose Business Accounting Software

From QuickBooks to NetSuite, there's plenty of accounting software out there to choose from. Here's how to pick the best one to serve your company's needs.  Read more

How to Protect Your Margins in a Downturn

Here's how companies in 12 industries are faring, plus tips.  Read more

30 Under 30 2009 - Apture - Tristan Harris, Can Sar and Jesse Young

Tristan Harris, Can Sar, and Jesse Young set out to streamline the Internet. The result was an online platform that allows publishers, including The New York...  Read more

Online B2B Marketplaces: Should You Dive In?

Business-to-business marketplaces are proliferating on the Web. Here's how to tell a site is right for you.  Read more

Business Owners Cutting Pay

A SurePayroll Scorecard finds paychecks have dropped over $2,000 annually.  Read more

Tools Provide Online Reviews and Drive Business

Web widgets offered by sites like RatePoint help small business owners gain important insight into customer satisfaction.  Read more

Online Bartering Grows

Bartering generally increases during a recession, but some websites are making it even more popular.  Read more

A Guide to Online Collaboration Tools

Basecamp, SocialText, or ConceptShare: Which Online Collaboration Software is Right for You?  Read more

How to Navigate Business Insolvency

Advice on bankruptcy, liquidation, reorganization, dealing with creditors, and financial insolvency.  Read more

How to Fix Cash-Flow Problems

Cash-flow problems have just a few possible causes. More often than you might think, business is all about the basics  Read more

Direct Deposit Pays Off

A new report finds that employers save through paperless payments.  Read more

Factoring Receivables: A Bright Spot in the Credit Crunch?

Find extra funds by factoring receivables during the recession  Read more

How to Create a Smart Credit Policy

An entrepreneur's guide to offering trade credit, crafting a credit application, and evaluating a customer's credit-worthiness  Read more

Getting Paid

Accept credit card payments on the go  Read more

Credit Card Holders Air their Grievances

American Express hosts an Open Forum for business owners to voice their credit concerns.  Read more

Blogger Logic

Cash Is King, But the King Can't Sit Idle  Read more

Our Irrational Fear of Numbers

No, you didn't start a company because you wanted to learn accounting. But you had better learn some – pronto – if you want to really understand your bus...  Read more

Mortgage Delinquencies Soar

Amid rising job losses, more homeowners are falling behind on their payments, a report finds.  Read more

Tell Us What You Really Think 

Have you ever wanted to read your customers' minds? Thanks to the Web, it's getting easier. Senior editor Bobbie Gossage explains.   Watch video

More Workers Taking Second Jobs

As the holidays approach, many cash-strapped Americans are looking for an extra paycheck, a survey finds.  Read more