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Break Even Analysis, Break Even Point

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Call it what you will, Break Even Analysis or Break Even Point, Working out how much you need to sell before you start to make a profit is fun and essential

Peer to Peer Lending

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Peer to peer lending is not a new idea, but with the availability of new technologies is making win-win waves in the lending market place

Accounting Journal Entries

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Comprehensive overview of accounting journal entries, used in producing accounts, and simple journal entry examples

Accounting 101

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Blow by blow accounting 101 to start you on your enlightening journey of financial scorekeeping for your business

Depreciation calculator, calculating depreciation

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You put your asset class and cost into the depreciation calculator, after having set up your depreciation policy, and whizz bang whirrr, the model starts calculating depreciation. Easy.

Depreciation Expense and Accumulated Depreciation

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It's time to give some appreciation to the concept of accumulated depreciation. What it is and why you need depreciation expense in your income statement and accumulated depreciation in your balance

The Chart of Accounts

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The chart of accounts is essential for finding your way around the ledgers of a business. A structured layout helps you find and post transactions to the correct account while giving an overview

Small Business Franchise Financing

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If you're thinking about buying a franchise business, then look out for these small business franchise financing pitfalls

Canada Government Small Business Loan

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The Business Development Bank of Canada and the Canada government small business loan guarantees, plus other Canada small business financing programs

Balance Sheet Example

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Use our balance sheet example to learn about the different parts and presentational styles, not to mention the juicy information you can extract about the financial wellbeing of the business

Business Credit Checks

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Business credit checks are an essential procedure you must carry out before granting credit terms to customers. It protects you against fraud, and mitigates exposure from unnecessary credit risk

Activity Based Costing (ABC)

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Activity based costing is a relative newcomer to the costing party, and aims to combine the best ideas, more timely decision making information about resource use and intelligent application of them

Standard Costing

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Standard costing is a widely used and practical solution to costing, pricing and process control enabling useful variance analysis and feedback to hone in on areas that need action or investigation

Absorption Costing - Pricing products to cover manufacturing overheads

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Absorption costing is about making sure that products are priced to more than cover the cost of manufacture, but also to match the costs of products to the sales made in any given period

Variable Costing - Relevant costing for making effective pricing decisions

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Variable costing is adaptable and useful when wanting to arrive at effective pricing decisions for your business. It uses direct materials, direct labour and