Practical Accounts and Bookkeeping in Easy Steps

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Author: Alex Byrne
Publisher: In Easy Steps Limited
Year: 2025
Language: en
Edition: 3
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781787910263
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Height: 8.88 Inches
Length: 7.38 Inches
Width: 0.62 Inches
Dewey Decimal: 657.2
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Practical Accounts and Bookkeeping in Easy Steps by Alex Byrne is the third edition published by In Easy Steps Limited on April 4, 2025. This comprehensive guide is designed to help readers understand the fundamentals of accounting and bookkeeping, covering essential topics such as recording daily transactions, preparing legal documents, and creating financial statements like the Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet. The book is presented in English and spans 288 pages, making it a practical resource for both business owners and students.

Readers will find a structured approach to mastering bookkeeping concepts, including VAT registration, annual adjustments, and key accounting principles such as double entry and depreciation. The book aims to demystify the complexities of accounts, providing examples for practice and a Questions and Answers section for self-assessment. With an emphasis on the latest UK legislation, this edition equips readers with the necessary tools to navigate the accounting landscape effectively, ensuring they can communicate financial issues clearly and utilize computer software designed to streamline bookkeeping processes.

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3rd edition

Practical Accounts & Bookkeeping in easy steps, 3rd edition is updated to cover the latest UK legislation. It starts with the basics you need to know to record your day-to-day transactions and how they appear in Nominals, Trial Balance, Profit & Loss and the Balance Sheet. It then covers:

  • Understanding accounts and why they are important.
  • The legal documents required when preparing accounts.
  • What happens if accounts are not submitted in time, and when accounts need to be sent to authorities.
  • Creating a balance sheet using sales ledgers, purchase ledgers, and nominal ledgers.
  • VAT – registering, charging, and reclaiming.
  • Annual adjustments – Prepayments, Accruals, etc.
  • Calculating Profit for tax and Capital Allowances.
  • Key Accounting Principles: Double Entry, Direct and Indirect costs, Fixed and Current Assets, Depreciation, Capital Allowance, and more!

    • This book will help you make sense of the “daunting” accounts world. It will help you to spot problems in the accounts and explain them to others using the correct terminology. It will also show you how computer software has been designed to simplify the processes. Master basic bookkeeping, then work through the book at your own pace to get a deeper understanding of Accounts.

    Practical Accounts & Bookkeeping in easy steps, 3rd edition is ideal for business owners as well as students.

    Includes examples to practice, and a Questions and Answers section to test yourself!

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