Financial accounting is a multi-step process for companies following double-entry methods. The first and most important step begins with a journal entry: the recording of financial information related ...

If your small business used a mortgage for a home purchase, a journal entry affects the property, mortgage payable and cash accounts. If you paid all cash for a home, a journal entry affects the ...

Journal entries are used to change accounting information in financial systems. Following the double-entry system used in modern accounting, these entries always affect at least two accounts -- one ...

Tracking your company’s spending is essential for maintaining accurate financial records. One financial accounting method businesses use is the payroll journal entry. Payroll journal entries record ...

Auditors can use Benford’s Law to identify general ledger irregularities — both those that can indicate fraud and those that do not. In this article, I introduce audit data analytics techniques that ...

A “Download” window will open in Excel letting you know that your document is in the process of being created. Click the “Close” button once the Journal Entry template has finished downloading into ...

The month-end close is accounting's most enduring ritual; a hard deadline that impacts workflows, sets review cycles, and ...

Small-business cloud accounting solution provider FreshBooks has released Journal Entries for QuickBooks and CSV, to make it easier for users to collaborate with their accountants. The feature lets ...