Book-keeping & Accounting for the Small Business

This guide offers a clear approach to book-keeping for business managers and students. It is suitable for use by sole traders, partnerships and limited companies, and includes full coverage of VAT and taxation. CONTENTS: Why you'll need proper business records - getting started - accounting for VAT - expanding your records as business grows - double entry book-keeping - doing the wages - alternative record keeping - preparing your annual accounts - how to use management information - taxation and your business - accounting for loans, hire purchase and leasing - dealing with your professional advisers About the author Peter Taylor is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and has many years' practical experience of advising small businesses.