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Praise for Accounting Best Practices Sixth Edition"For a comprehensive, yet easy-to-read guide to fixing thoseall-too-common shortcomings in your accounting department, look nofurther than this excellent book. Steve Bragg provides hundreds offixes, many of them requiring surprisingly little time or costwhile providing a handy guide to common implementation pitfalls . .. I would recommend this invaluable book to anyone who is lookingto enhance their existing processes, whether due to growth in theirbusiness, compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, or just as part of theirongoing improvement process."Martyn Webster, CPA, Director of FinanceXenoPortInc."This book is critical to running an efficient and accurateaccounting department. The use of RFID technology to trackdocuments is one of many valuable tools in this latest edition. Arequired read for the demanding accounting manager's role."Jason Charet, CPA"I've used Steve Bragg's Accounting Best Practices booksfor years as a source of ideas for improvement. Like the previouseditions, the Fifth Edition has a number of new, actionable bestpractices as well as refinements of those ideas reported inprevious editions. The books are broad enough in their perspectiveso that nearly any organization could find ideas that could payback the cost of the book many times over."John Temmerman, Controller, Evangelical Lutheran Churchin America"What a great resource! I have been in the accounting field forover twenty years, and I was still able to gain insight intoimproving processes within my office. Thanks for putting it all inone book!"Tina M. Thomas, CPA, CTP, Controller, Goodman &Company, LLP

Preface.Chapter 1 Introduction.Chapter 2 How to Use Best Practices.Chapter 3 Accounts Payable Best Practices.Chapter 4 Billing Best Practices.Chapter 5 Budgeting Best Practices.Chapter 6 Cash Management Best Practices.Chapter 7 Collections Best Practices.Chapter 8 Credit Best Practices.Chapter 9 Commissions Best Practices.Chapter 10 Costing Best Practices.Chapter 11 Filing Best Practices.Chapter 12 Finance Best Practices.Chapter 13 Financial Statements Best Practices.Chapter 14 General Best Practices.Chapter 15 General Ledger Best Practices.Chapter 16 Internal Auditing Best Practices.Chapter 17 Inventory Best Practices.Chapter 18 Payroll Best Practices.Appendix A Summary of Best Practices.Index.