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 ...

Learn how accounting spreadsheets work with real examples of journals plus when to switch to accounting software.

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 ...

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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released a staff publication highlighting problems it's seeing with audits of journal entries. Processing Content The publication, Audit Focus: Journal ...

The double-entry system protects your small business against costly accounting errors. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who compensate us when you ...

Evan Tarver has 6+ years of experience in financial analysis and 5+ years as an author, editor, and copywriter. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert.

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 ...