Basic Accounting and Financial Management for Managers
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Bookkeeping
3. Debits and Credits
4. Double Entry Bookkeeping
5. Cash or Accrual
6. Profit Center vs. Cost Center
7. Bottom Line Responsibility
8. General Ledger
9. Chart of Accounts
10. Accounting Periods
11. Fixed versus Variable Expenses
12. Volume versus Average Sale
13. Classifying Revenues and Expenses by Category
14. Point of Sale System
15. Balance Sheet
16. Operating Statement
17. Departmental Schedules
18. Forecasting Revenues
19. Statement of Assumptions
20. Cost of Goods Sold
21. Payroll and Related Expenses
22. Other Operating Expenses
23. Tools to Beat Budget
24. Tools to Beat Budget
25. Tools to Beat Budget Program
26. Basic Accounting and Financial Management
27. Categorizing Revenues
28. Pricing
29. Volume vs. Average Purchase
30. Revenue Accounting
31. Single Largest Expense
32. Component Factors
33. Compensation Costs
34. Scheduling Staff
35. Monitoring Payroll Hours Daily
36. Verification of Hours
37. Overtime
38. Legal Issues
39. Payroll Policies and Procedures
40. Additional Information
41. Other Operating Expenses
42. Cost of Goods Sold
43. Target Cost of Goods Sold
44. Investigating Cost of Goods Issues
45. Purchasing
46. Receiving
47. Storing
48. Inventories
49. Investigation of Inventory Discrepancies
50. Purchaser Must Code
51. Consistent Coding
52. Expense Dictionary
53. Multiple Codes on One Invoice
54. Coding Standards
55. What Your Signature Means
56. Conclusion
57. Requirement
58. Preparing for the Meeting
59. Purpose
60. What to Benchmark
61. Sources of Data
62. Tools to Benchmark
63. Caveats
64. As an Aid to Budgeting
65. Basic Accounting and Financial Management
66. The Executive Metrics Report
67. Archiving Benchmarks
68. Point of Sale System
69. Purpose
70. Importance of Programming
71. Importance of Training
72. Conclusion
