Accounting Best Practices [with Website Access]

by Steven M. Bragg

ACCOUNTING BEST PRACTICES
Seventh Edition Today's accounting staffs are called on to work magic: process transactions, write reports, improve efficiency, create new processes—all at the lowest possible cost, using an ever-shrinking proportion of total corporate expenses. Sound impossible? Not if your staff is using the best practices for accounting. Fully updated in a new edition, Accounting Best Practices, Seventh Edition draws from renowned accounting leader Steven Bragg's extensive experience in successfully developing, operating, and consulting various accounting departments. This invaluable resource has the at-your-fingertips information you need, 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. The best practices featured in this excellent step-by-step manual constitute need-to-know information concerning the most advanced techniques and strategies for increasing productivity, reducing costs, and monitoring existing accounting systems. This new edition boasts over 400 best practices, with fifty new to this edition in the areas of taxation, finance, collections, general ledger, accounts payable, and billing. Now featuring a corresponding seven-minute podcast for each chapter found on the book's companion website, Accounting Best Practices is the perfect, do-it-yourself book for the manager who wants to significantly boost their accounting department.

Genres: Accounting, Nonfiction

496 pages, Hardcover

First published September 3, 1999

About the author

Steven Bragg is a former chief financial officer and controller, and author of 300+ business courses and 50 business books. To get away from the business world, he is also the trail running author of Run the Rockies, a PADI-certified Master Diver, an avid skier and mountain biker, and two-time president of the Colorado Mountain Club. He is also the author of the science fiction novels Under an Autumn Sun and Early Winter, the first two novels in The Auditors trilogy.

Reviews

[Sandra Soetanto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Accountants’ must-read book. As accounting department in any companies is considered a cost center, we should continuously try to make the process cost-effective. The book contains some best practices related with accounting practices, from Account Payable to Billing, General Ledger to Financial Reporting, as well as implementation assessment of each best practice in term of time needed and cost. If continuous improvement is your company’s culture, having this book is never a waste.

[Evan W · Rating 5 out of 5]

Accounting best practices.isnt just a checklist it's a way of life

[Vivian Nguyen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book. It is one of the better accounting books listing out clear and concise processes for a midsize company to organize its accounting systems from AP, AR, to the General Ledger. I reference this book on many occasions and it never gets old.