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Wiley Best Practices

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Billings and Collections Best Practices offers advice for implementing a plethora of best practices to greatly improve your company's level of efficiency in information reporting, including:
Showing you how to create a more efficient billing operation.Demonstrating how you can reduce the error rate on bills sent to customers.Revealing specific steps for you to reduce the amount of outstanding receivables.Providing guidelines on how you can restructure invoice formats to shorten the payment interval.Detailing how to create a database for recurring billings and how to maintain its accuracy. Order your copy today!

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Praise for Management Accounting Best Practices

"It doesn't matter where you start reading, even the most experienced accountant will find some useful ideas."
—Alan H. Boycott, Chartered Accountant, Düsseldorf, Germany

"This is one of the best books about new accounting practices in practical accounting. I highly recommend this book for accountants of all levels."
—Andrei Ralko, Controller, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, NY

The only practices worth followingare the best practices...

Destined to become an essential desktop tool in helping professionals make management decisions in accounting, Management Accounting Best Practices introduces over 100 best practices from accounting expert Steven Bragg for questions such as:

  • How does the system of interlocking budgets work?
  • What does a sample budget look like?
  • What best practices can I apply to the budgeting process?
  • How can I integrate the budget into the corporate control system?
  • How do throughput concepts impact the budget?

Now, when members of your management team come calling with questions, you'll have the answers at your fingertips, in Management Accounting Best Practices. It's the easy-to-use, daily reference manual for every accountant in a management position.

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Accounting Best Practices

by Steven M. Bragg

Published 3 September 1999
Accounting Best Practices , Sixth Edition includes 90 new best practices. These new best practices are included in the chapters on Treasury Management, Billing Best Practices, in the new chapter on Credit, the new chapter on Collections, revised chapter on Accounts Payable, revised chapter on Payroll, and revised chapter Inventory.

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Accounting Control Best Practices,
Second Edition

Control systems are needed to ensure that a company's assets are used in the most productive manner and that they are not lost through fraudulent activities. However, an excessive use of controls can interfere with the efficient completion of activities within a company. Whether your company is in start-up mode, installing new systems, or simply dissatisfied with existing controls due to fraudulent losses, Accounting Control Best Practices, Second Edition is the reference handbook every accountant and systems analyst can use to ensure that their company has constructed a durable and efficient set of controls.

This easy-to-use handbook clearly explains how to develop an effective system of accounting and operational controls and offers the best practices with pragmatic insights and proactive strategies to protect organizations from suffering further substantial losses of assets and reputation that occur from financial dishonesty within an organization.

Author and renowned accounting expert Steven Bragg provides control flowcharts in every chapter for all major processes as well as a thorough set of corporate policies designed to support the system of controls. Now containing chapters on budgeting, collections, and acquisition integration, this valuable reference handbook offers essential information on control best practices for:

  • Order entry, credit, and shipment
  • Inventory management
  • Billing
  • Cash-handling
  • Payroll
  • Fixed assets
  • Budgeting
  • Financial reporting
  • Just-in-time manufacturing
  • Petty cash
  • And many more

Encompassing all of the major accounting and operational processes with nearly 500 controls presented in basic, intermediate, and advanced layers, from those needed for a very basic paper-based system, to computerized systems, to the use of advanced best practice enhancements in computerized systems, Accounting Control Best Practices, Second Edition is the only guidebook needed to devise a set of controls precisely tailored to every company's system.