Accounting Best Practices 7th Edition

ACCOUNTING BEST PRACTICES
Seventh Edition

Today’s accounting staffs are called on to work magic: process transactions, write reports, improve efficiency, create new processes all at the lowest possible cost, using an ever-shrinking proportion of total corporate expenses. Sound impossible? Not if your staff is using the best practices for accounting.

Fully updated in a new edition, Accounting Best Practices, Seventh Edition draws from renowned accounting leader Steven Bragg’s extensive experience in successfully developing, operating, and consulting various accounting departments. This invaluable resource has the at-your-fingertips information you need, whether you’ve been searching for ways to cut costs in your accounting department, or just want to offer more services without the added expense.

The best practices featured in this excellent step-by-step manual constitute need-to-know information concerning the most advanced techniques and strategies for increasing productivity, reducing costs, and monitoring existing accounting systems. This new edition boasts over 400 best practices, with fifty new to this edition in the areas of taxation, finance, collections, general ledger, accounts payable, and billing.

Now featuring a corresponding seven-minute podcast for each chapter found on the book’s companion website, Accounting Best Practices 7th Edition is the perfect, do-it-yourself book for the manager who wants to significantly boost their accounting department.

STEVEN M. BRAGG, CPA, has been the chief financial officer or controller of four companies, as well as a consulting manager at Ernst & Young and an auditor at Deloitte & Touche. He received a master’s degree in finance from Bentley College, an MBA from Babson College, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Maine. He has been the two-time president of the Colorado Mountain Club, is an avid alpine skier and mountain biker, and is a certified master diver. Mr. Bragg resides in Centennial, Colorado. He is also the author of Accounting Control Best Practices and Accounting Policies and Procedures Manual (both published by Wiley).