Accounting Best Practices

by Steven M. Bragg

Adopting accounting best practices can improve efficiency and reduce error rates in the accounting department, but less obvious are the benefits gained from better reporting of information to other parts of the company. More accurate data, reported faster, can play an integral role in both short- and long-term strategic planning. Accounting guru Steven Bragg explains how to leverage this and other opportunities in "Accounting Best Practices, Fourth Edition." This revised and updated text features numerous new best practices in such critical areas as accounting management, inventory, billing, and payroll. This "Fourth Edition" highlights the dos and don'ts of best practices implementation, and a new reference system renders the expansive collection of best practices readily accessible. Accounting and financial managers, internal and external auditors, and consultants will find it to be a peerless resource.

Genres: Accounting, Nonfiction

464 pages, Hardcover

First published September 3, 1999

About the author

Steven Bragg is a former chief financial officer and controller, and author of 300+ business courses and 50 business books. To get away from the business world, he is also the trail running author of Run the Rockies, a PADI-certified Master Diver, an avid skier and mountain biker, and two-time president of the Colorado Mountain Club. He is also the author of the science fiction novels Under an Autumn Sun and Early Winter, the first two novels in The Auditors trilogy.

Reviews

[Sandra Soetanto]

Accountants’ must-read book. As accounting department in any companies is considered a cost center, we should continuously try to make the process cost-effective. The book contains some best practices related with accounting practices, from Account Payable to Billing, General Ledger to Financial Reporting, as well as implementation assessment of each best practice in term of time needed and cost. If continuous improvement is your company’s culture, having this book is never a waste.

[Evan W]

Accounting best practices.isnt just a checklist it's a way of life

[Vivian Nguyen]

I love this book. It is one of the better accounting books listing out clear and concise processes for a midsize company to organize its accounting systems from AP, AR, to the General Ledger. I reference this book on many occasions and it never gets old.