Improve your accounting department with proven techniques and methods that will streamline all of the processes associated with your system. While increasing the quality of your performance, you will be guided by samples of cost/benefit analyses so that you may justify the implementation of your revised systems. Whether you are changing your accounting department out of necessity or just looking to enhance it, this book will transform your current department into a quicker and more reliable unit. If you're looking for a way to increase accounting department efficiency and cut costs, start by reading this remarkable new hands-on guide and learn how to: Reduce transaction-related work and allow employees to focus on profit-increasing activities Eliminate redundancy and waste Apply the latest technologies to your accounting process Reduce costs to the corporation Eliminate errors and increase efficiency These topics and many more are thoroughly discussed so that you may speed up your accounting processes and cut costs at the same time.

Improve your accounting department with proven techniques andmethods that will streamline all of the processes associated withyour system. While increasing the quality of your performance, youwill be guided by samples of cost/benefit analyses so that you mayjustify the implementation of your revised systems. Whether you arechanging your accounting department out of necessity or justlooking to enhance it, this book will transform your currentdepartment into a quicker and more reliable unit.If you're looking for a way to increase accounting departmentefficiency and cut costs, start by reading this remarkable newhands-on guide and learn how to:* Reduce transaction-related work and allow employees to focus onprofit-increasing activities* Eliminate redundancy and waste* Apply the latest technologies to your accounting process* Reduce costs to the corporation* Eliminate errors and increase efficiencyThese topics and many more are thoroughly discussed so that youmay speed up your accounting processes and cut costs at the sametime.

Preface.TRADITIONAL ACCOUNTING AREAS.Setting Up the Accounting Department.Cash.Sales and Accounts Receivable.Inventory.Accounts Payable.Cost Accounting.Payroll.The Budget.OTHER TOPICS.Electronic Data Interchange.Internet and Intranet Accounting Applications.The Quick Close.Advanced Data Collection and Storage Systems.Process Documentation.Outsourcing the Accounting Department.Effects of Change on Employees.Appendix: Summary of Recommendations.Index.