Accounting documents from Sun Yat-sen University

Some basic accounting lessons online from School of Business, Sun Yat-sen University
Task Team of FUNDAMENTAL ACCOUNTING

direct link for Powerpoint and word documents:
-Lesson 1 Introduction to Accounting ppt (powerpoint ) doc (word)
-Lesson 2 Accounting Transaction and Accounting Equation ppt doc
-Lesson 3 Analyzing and Recording Accounting Transactions ppt doc
-Lesson 4 Adjusting Accounts for Financial Statement ppt doc
-Lesson 5 Completing the Accounting Cycle ppt doc
-Lesson 6 Accounting for Merchandising Activities ppt doc
-Lesson 7 Merchandise Inventories and Cost of Sales ppt doc
-Lesson 8 Accounting Information System ppt doc
-Lesson 9 Financial Statements ppt doc
-Lesson 10 Understanding and Using Financial Statements ppt doc
-Lesson 11 Understanding Accounting Principles ppt doc
-Lesson 12 Internal Control and Business Ethics ppt doc
-Lesson 13 Managerial Accounting Ⅰ: Concepts and Principles ppt doc
-Lesson 14 Managerial Accounting Ⅱ: Applications ppt doc

How to select the right accounting software for your business?

A good article from the site of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) who treat the problem of choosing the right accounting software.
It contents good advices on how to select the accounting software that match the needs of your business or comapny and things to consider when making your choice as cost and steps to follow; It provide also a list of the most important accounting software:

A Strategy for Finding the Right Accounting Software
By Randolph P.Johnston

Cash Management: Understanding Cash Flow

UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROLLING CASH FLOW
by Ramin C. Maysami
Assistant Professor of Economics
Sangamon State University
Springfield, Illinois
in Financial Management Series from U.S. Small Business Administration
A guide for small business owners to understand cash flow management

Contents:
Accounting Profits Versus Cash Flow
Working Capital Management
The Working Capital Cash Conversion Cycle
Cash and Marketable Securities
Short-Term Credit
Accruals
Accounts Payable
Trade Credit
Shot-Term Loans
Accounts Receivable Financing
Inventory Financing


Download: Word 97 Text PDF

Free Excel training guide for business users

MBA's Guide to Microsoft Excel free ebook by Stephen L. Nelson
Free guide for business users of Excel, explain how to use Excel as a business calculation tool, include:
Tutorials on Excel

Excel topics for business users
Financial and business calculations in Excel
Statistics and data analysis, and using the Small Business Finance Manager
Use Excel to build business workbooks

Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: A Quick Primer on Using Excel
Chapter 3: A Quick Primer on Charting
Chapter 4: Statistical Analysis using Excel
Chapter 5: Financial Calculations using Excel
Chapter 6: Excel-based Business Modeling
Chapter 7: Sharing Excel Workbooks
Chapter 8: PivotTables and PivotCharts
Chapter 9: Small Business Financial Manager
Chapter 10: Building a Business Planning Workbook
Chapter 11: Building a Profit Volume and Break-even Analysis Workbook
Chapter 12: Forecasting Sales and Cost of Sales
Chapter 13: Building a Capital Budgeting Workbook
Chapter 14: Building Amortization Schedules
Chapter 15: Building Asset Depreciation Schedules
Starter Workbooks zip file working examples for chap 10 through 15

Finance and accounting Excel free templates

Free Finanacial Excel templates by Stephen L. Nelson

Fixed rate and adjustable rate mortgage amortization templates:
15-year fixed rate mortgage amortization schedule
15-year adjustable rate mortgage amortization schedule
30-year fixed rate mortgage amortization schedule
30-year fixed rate mortgage amortization schedule

Loan amortization templates:
5-year adjustable rate loan amortization schedule
5-year fixed rate loan amortization schedule

Business planning and investment analysis templates:
10-year business planning template (does P&L, cash flow and balance sheet reports)
10-year cash flow forecasting template (does NPV & IRR calculations)
Future value of an investment using adjustable interest rates
Future value of investment using fixed interest rate
Multifamily property real estate investment analysis template
Profit-Volume-Cost analysis template (also does breakeven analysis)
Sales and cost of goods sold forecasting template

Personal financial planning and analysis templates:
Credit card manager template (calculates payoff of balances and more)
College savings calculator template
Life insurance needs estimator template
Home affordability calculator template
Future value of a savings plan template
Retirement planning calculator template

Accounting and Bookkeeping documents: free resources

Accounting and Bookkeeping photocopiable documents (pdf files)
free resource from osbornebooks.co.uk

AS Accounting
Accounting Documents
Layouts and Ratios
Business Accounts
Accounting Documents
Layouts and Ratios
contents: purchase order, delivery note, goods received note, invoice, credit note statement of account, remittance advice and cheque, three column cash book, analysed cash book (receipts), analysed cash book (payments), petty cash book, petty cash voucher, cash analysis sheet, double-entry accounts, journal pages, sales day book & sales returns day book, purchases day book & purchases returns day book

Bookkeeping forms and formats:
bookkeeping Documents
contents: account format, petty cash book, petty cash reimbursement request and cheque, cash book and bank reconciliation statement, cash book formats

Free Business Online Learning Programs

Business Skills for Success
Online courses from Kutztown University Small Business Development Center
Free entrepreneurial training resources available online. E-Learning Programs for small business owners, recent owner or start-up.

Trainings contents:
STARTIND AND GROWING A BUSINESS
Finding and Attracting Investors

ACCOUNTING
Accounting 101
Creating a Profit and Loss Statement
Preparing a Balance Sheet
Preparing a Cash Budget

FINANCE
Analyzing Your Financial Ratios
Assessing Your Company's Financial Needs
Creating A Loan Package
Creating Financial Projections
Finding Money To Start A Business
Managing Your Cash Flow
Running a Profitable Company
Valuing a Business

MARKETING
Advertising Your Business
Analyzing Your Competition
Building Your Brand
Conduct a Marketing Analysis
Creating a Competitive Advantage
Small Business Marketing
Market Insight and Research
Marketing 101
Personalization Strategies to Attract and Retain Customers
Positioning Master Class
Pricing Products and Services
Pricing Strategy and Tactics
Promoting Your Business
Targeting Your Market

SALES
Identifying Your Sales Strategy

BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT
Creating a Strategic Plan
Maintaining an Agile Company

BUSINESS PLAN WORKSHOPS
Crafting A Business Plan
Developing a Business Plan
Strategic Planning and Execution

GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING
Basics of Government Marketing

MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
Buying A Business
The Entrepreneurial Strategies

LEGACY
Choosing A Legal Structure
Determining Your Company's Legal Structure
Protecting Your Business with Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks
Understanding Intellectual Property

Printable Financial documents

Financial Documents suitable for Business Courses.
free resource from osbornebooks.co.uk
Business Documents
contents: purchase order, delivery note, goods received note, invoice, credit note, statement of account, remittance advice, cheque, paying-in slip, hand-written receipt, petty cash voucher

Free Accounting package for small business

Headway Millennium Accounting Package
by Stream Line SA
Headway Millennium Accounting Package is a free accounting software designed for small businesses, but it can also be used by financial companies and indviduals. The basic version is free of charge.

What you can do with this basic accounting software :
ACCOUNTING ENTRIES
- Standard accounting entries
- Recurrent accounting entries
- On line updating of the chart of accounts for new accounts
- Automatic calculation in the currency of the ledger of
amounts in foreign currencies
BASIC TABLES
- Intermediate closing periods
- Table of currencies and or countries
- Chart of accounts
- Balance sheet
- Class of accounts
EXCHANGE RATES

- Up-dating of exchange rates for each currency by
intermediate closing period
- Automatic computation of exchange differences
TABLE OF VAT (AND OR GST) RATES
- Automatic calculation of the VAT/GST during recording of
accounting entries
- Rates can be defined for VAT/GST either included (TTC)or
(HT)excluded both for purchase or sale
CLOSING OF A LEDGER
- Automatic carry forward of balances from previous to new
fiscal year
- Final closing of a general ledger
- If and when the ledgers of two fiscal years are open,
possibility to record accounting entries in both ledgers
with automatic recalculation of balances of next ledger
LIBRARY
- Storage of unlimited number of balance sheets and or charts
of accounts
- Table of currencies and or countries
- List of companies
- Delete companies
- Delete ledgers
- Save of data
- Recuperation of data

PRINTING OPTIONS:
- Visualization before printing
- Export to Microsoft Excel or Word® (Windows® 2000 minimum)
- All prints can be printed for one or more or all intermediate closing periods

This software is Multi-lingual and is available for 50 languages.

Cost Management lecture notes

Cost Management lecture notes and Exercises
by
Frank A. DeGeorge
Financial versus Managerial Accounting

Project Costing Systems – Concepts and Design Issues
Cost Accumulation for Job/Shop and Batch Production Operations
Activity-Based Costing Systems

Process costing Standard costing Excel
Managing and Allocating Support Services
Cost Estimation Excel
CVP analysis

Strategic Issues in Making Investment Decisions Excel

Excel Spreadsheets and Exercises

Exercise1 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Author Chapter 16 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 14


The accounting information system : accounting cycle

Accounting Systems Cycle free course in pdf
by Professor Pearson

Contents:
Accounting terminolgy, double entry, accounting cycle by steps, journals transaction record, trial balance, adjusting entries, closing entries, inventory accounts .

Cash flow statement explained: online tutorial

free online tutorial explaining the statement of cash flows; one of the main financial statements with balance sheet, income statement, and statement of stockholders' equity.
Explanation of Cash Flow Statement by accountingcoach.com
Contents:
Part 1 : Changes In cash flows, Format of the statement of cash Flows, Operating Activities, Investing Activities, Financing Activities, Balance Sheet Changes, Operating Activities Adjustments
Part 2 : Story to Illustrate, January Transactions, February Transactions
Part 3 : March Transactions
Part 4 : April Transactions
Part 5 : May Transactions
Part 6 : Depreciation Expense, June Transactions
Part 7 : Disposal of Assets, July Transactions

 
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