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Ask Jon Paul: Category Archive for Reporting

Halloween's Over- SuperFreakonomics in Business

Outside Auditors- Toothless Watchdogs? No dentures needed!

Aggressive Accounting - The Frog in the Pot

Mark to Market Accounting Explained

Pension Costs – a Potential Blind Spot

Which Mirror Are You Using?

Poor Cutoffs in Accounting

True the Cash Forecasts to your Financials

Track Owner Compensation

Know Your Fourth Quarter

Tie Reporting to Units

Revenues and Profits Per Employee

Standing Out with Your Reporting

Revenue – The Forgotten Detail

Reconciling Cash Online

Have A Journal Entry Log

Cost Accounting Can Be Key to Your Financial Statements

What’s on Your Dashboard?

Make Your Reporting Package Easy to Navigate

Breakdown Your Manufacturing or Service Variances

Showing Direct Labor Cost

Board Packages – Two Things You Need

Are You Tracking Any Margin At All?

Tie Back to the Tax Returns

The Two Most Important Days in Accounting

Cash versus Accrual Accounting

Revenue Recognition – It Affects Non-Profits Too

Hidden Liabilities

The One Page Summary

Allocating the Payroll

Split out the Administrative Cost

Does Anybody Understand the Manufacturing Variances?

Expense Reports Don’t Have to Be Late

The Three Legs of Cash Flow

A Test of Any Number - So What?

Streamlining the journal entries

Deferred Revenues – What Should the Balance Be?

The Net Cash Balance

Warranty Expenses Warrant a Look

Now That You Have Variances

When Percentage of Completion Completes the Picture

Give Accounting Permission to Err on Estimates

Soft Close and Hard Close

The Mechanics- Setting up the Credit Card Charge Bookkeeping

Credit Card Charges – Getting Them in Your Records Faster

Finding the Right Unit of Measure

Unit of Measure –Getting a Better Measure on Your Business

How Much Detail in Revenues

Getting Tight with Purchasing

Check the Balance Sheet

Find the Soft Spot in Your Numbers

Getting a Jump on the Month End

The Real Bottom Line for Many Businesses

Remembering the Cash Flow Statement

Bank Reconciliations – New World of Online Data

Have an Outsider Take a Look at Your Income Statement

The Weight Test

Two Keys to Creating the Financial Flash

Taking a Flash

Does Your Financial Reporting Package Resemble an Encyclopedia?

5 Ways to Improve the Timeliness of Your Financial Reporting

Testing Your Financial Reporting - ACCURACY

When Numbers Fluctuate and It Doesn’t Make Sense