Accounting Best Practices - Hardcover

Bragg, Steven M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470561653 ISBN 13: 9780470561652

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2010

Synopsis

Praise for Accounting Best Practices Sixth Edition

"For a comprehensive, yet easy-to-read guide to fixing those all-too-common shortcomings in your accounting department, look no further than this excellent book. Steve Bragg provides hundreds of fixes, many of them requiring surprisingly little time or cost while providing a handy guide to common implementation pitfalls . . . I would recommend this invaluable book to anyone who is looking to enhance their existing processes, whether due to growth in their business, compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, or just as part of their ongoing improvement process."
—Martyn Webster, CPA, Director of FinanceXenoPort, Inc.

"This book is critical to running an efficient and accurate accounting department. The use of RFID technology to track documents is one of many valuable tools in this latest edition. A required read for the demanding accounting manager's role."
—Jason Charet, CPA

"I've used Steve Bragg's Accounting Best Practices books for years as a source of ideas for improvement. Like the previous editions, the Fifth Edition has a number of new, actionable best practices as well as refinements of those ideas reported in previous editions. The books are broad enough in their perspective so that nearly any organization could find ideas that could pay back the cost of the book many times over."
—John Temmerman, Controller, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

"What a great resource! I have been in the accounting field for over twenty years, and I was still able to gain insight into improving processes within my office. Thanks for putting it all in one book!"
—Tina M. Thomas, CPA, CTP, Controller, Goodman & Company, LLP

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Companies are often faced with a difficult dilemma—how to cut accounting department operating costs without cutting back on services to the company. Many financial and accounting managers don't realize that expenses can be drastically cut in all areas of their department without hiring an expensive outside consultant, simply by implementing best practices from accounting guru Steven Bragg.

Accounting Best Practices, Sixth Edition offers the latest and most important information on advanced techniques and strategies to help you increase productivity, reduce costs, and efficiently monitor a company's existing systems.

This new Sixth Edition has been fully updated to include ninety new best practices included in the chapters on Treasury Management, Billing, Accounts Payable, Payroll, and Inventory. In addition, two new chapters have been added on credit and collections.

The accounting department that strives to adopt best practices enjoys a host of benefits, not the least of which include improved customer service, cycle times, product quality, and profitability, as well as reduced error rates. This benchmark resource shows readers how to successfully improve both efficiency and accuracy in this excellent step-by-step manual of best practices.

Accounting Best Practices, Sixth Edition will not only show you how to cut your business costs but will demonstrate how to optimize your company's effectiveness as well. Whether you've been searching for ways to cut costs in your accounting department, or just want to offer more services without the added expense, look no further–Accounting Best Practices, Sixth Edition is here.

From the Back Cover

Everything you need to know to turn your adequate practices into Best Practices Accounting Best Practices provides you with the most advanced techniques and strategies available today to help your business cut costs and improve accounting operations-regardless of your company's size or holdings. Whether you are targeting specific areas or simply need a comprehensive overview, the leading expert in the field of accounting best practices shows you precisely how to tailor best practices to fit your needs. Featuring an easy-to-read format, and covering a wide variety of accounting areas, including billing, budgeting, cash management, collections, commissions, costing, filing, financial statements, general ledger, inventory, and payroll, this essential accounting reference will help enhance and optimize your financial bottom line. In addition, you'll also find:
* Complete details on the latest best practices implemented by companies today
* Flowcharts of some of the most complex best practices available
* Several concise indices of best practices, classified by type of result and functional area within the accounting field
* Numerous appendices cross-referencing the best practices to help you easily customize the best practices for your business
* And much more
Whether you are an accounting or financial manager, an internal or external auditor, or even if you consult accounting operations, you'll find Accounting Best Practices an indispensable resource-and perfect for all your fiscal needs.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470561653
• ISBN 13: 9780470561652
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 502