All businesses need to keep a record of their financial transactions in order to assess their financial health, provide status reports to various bodies and to comply with legal regulations. Use these steps as a guide to keeping your books well and truly up to date:
Transactions: The purchases or sales of items start the process of bookkeeping.
Journal entries: Enter transactions into the books through journals.
Posting: Post journal entries to the Nominal Ledger.
Trial balance: Test accounts in the Nominal Ledger to see if they’re in balance.
Worksheet: Enter on a worksheet any account adjustments needed after the trial balance.
Adjusting journal entries: Post adjustments from the worksheet to affected accounts in the Nominal Ledger.
Financial statements: Prepare the balance sheet and income statement using the corrected account balances.
Ratios: Use ratios to cross check performance from one accounting period to another. Any major change could signal an error in record keeping if you can’t account for it by a known change in performance.
Closing: Close the books for the revenue and expense accounts, and start the entire cycle again with zero balances in both accounts.
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