Name: Accounting for dummies
ISBN: 9780764578366

Accounting for dummies

Learn the basics of practical accounting easily and painlessly with Accounting For Dummies, 4th Edition, which features new information on accounting methods and standards to keep you up to date. With this guide, you can avoid accounting fraud, minimize confusion, maximize profits, and make sense of accounting basics with this plain-English guide to your accountant's language. Understand how to manage inventory, report income and expenses for public or private companies, evaluate profit margins, analyze business strengths and weaknesses, and manage budgets for a better bottom line.

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achenatxMar 2023

I like books that are actionable. Lots of books are inspirational but not that useful (e.g. crossing the chasm). I run a curriculum in my company which uses a few books I have read over the years.

emyth revisited (how to think about and structure an org)

getting to yes (negotiation)

influence the psychology of persuasion (negotiation)

spin selling (enterprise sales, supplanted by sandler)

You cant teach a kid to ride a bike at a seminar (sandler sales)

5 dysfunctions of a team (one of the best leadership books)

first break all the rules (management)

accounting for dummies

purple cow (differentiation)

blue ocean strategy (differentiation)

traction (strategy/operations)

rocketfuel (strategy/operations)

for professional services:

managing the professional services firm

getting naked

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justinsbJun 2011

Is "Business Accounting for Dummies" (as recommended in the accounting video) really the best book? It looks like it's meant for the UK, as well as being both out of print and not very highly rated on Amazon.. Maybe you meant "Accounting For Dummies"?

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