Inventory is an asset until it sells, and then it is a cost
Buying stock does not reduce profit. Selling it does. Getting that timing wrong is why a busy month can look unprofitable and a quiet one can look excellent.
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Bookkeeping
Double-entry mechanics, audit-ready records, and the habits that keep a set of books trustworthy.
Procure to pay — the controls that stop you paying twice
The purchasing chain is where small companies lose the most money to simple error: duplicate payments, prices nobody agreed to, and suppliers who were never really suppliers.
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What your books have to prove, and for how long
An audit trail is not paperwork. It is the difference between a number you can defend and a number you are asserting — and the retention rules run longer than most people assume.
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Order to cash — what happens between the sale and the money
Invoicing is one step in a chain that ends with cash and a closed receivable. The steps in between are where revenue quietly goes missing.
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The accounting cycle, and why the order is not negotiable
Every set of books runs the same loop from transaction to statement. Knowing the sequence is what turns bookkeeping from a pile of tasks into a process you can hand to someone else.
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Cash or accrual — the choice decides what your numbers mean
Cash accounting tells you what moved. Accrual tells you what happened. For most growing businesses the difference between them is the whole picture.
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How to design a chart of accounts you will not regret
Most charts of accounts are too detailed in the wrong places and too vague in the ones that matter. The test is whether an account answers a question you actually ask.
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Why your books should be an immutable ledger
A real ledger never lets a posted entry be silently edited or deleted — corrections happen by reversing. Here's why that matters, and how Comma enforces it.
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