Accounting Best Practices

by Steven M. Bragg

Praise for Accounting Best Practices , Fifth 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

Genres: Accounting, Nonfiction

490 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.