Double Entry Bookkeeping

Double Entry Bookkeeping provides a wide variety of tutorials, examples, references, and no-nonsense advice on bookkeeping and accounting. It aims to answer all those questions you’ve always wanted to ask …and some you didn’t know you needed to.

At double entry bookkeeping.com you will learn how to understand and use your accounting records to manage your business. We offer free tutorials in all aspects of bookkeeping and accounting.

Double Entry Bookkeeping Tutorials

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Double Entry Bookkeeping Examples

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Bookkeeping Example
Account	Debit	Credit
Debtors	100.00
Fixed Assets		100.00
Total	100.00	100.00

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Double Entry Bookkeeping References

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Double Entry Bookkeeping Quizzes

Test your knowledge of debits and credits. At double entry bookkeeping.com you will find a selection of accounting quizzes.

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Bookkeeping Glossary

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Accounting Templates

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Double Entry Bookkeeping Accounting Ratios

You will find information on what are considered to be the most important accounting ratios used in managing a business.

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Why Do We Need Double Entry Bookkeeping

When you set out to start a business as an entrepreneur you need to be in control of your finances and be able to monitor closely the overall performance of the business. The only way to achieve this is to have good accounting information and be able to understand what the information is telling you.

Bookkeeping is the process of recording all your business transactions to produce a set of accounting records, it is the start of the accounting process which allows you to produce useful accounting information such as details of your sales, expenses, working capital etc.

A Bit Of History On Double Entry Accounting

Double entry accounting is a system of bookkeeping which records each transaction twice and originated from a 15th Century monk Luca Pacioli. The first entry records what comes into the business (a debit) and the second entry what goes out of the business (a credit). Every Debit must have a corresponding equal and opposite Credit.

Double-Entry-Bookkeeping.Com

All small businesses are under pressure from all sides and only well managed businesses will survive. We started the website with one clear objective in mind to offer users a wide variety of tutorials, examples, references, and no-nonsense advice on double entry bookkeeping and accounting.

We aim to give you the information you need to help you understand and use your accounting records to manage your business. We make double entry bookkeeping and accounting more usable, easier to navigate, faster and more reliable. In other words: we make your double entry bookkeeping records work.

Whilst there are many places that you can learn double entry accounting and bookkeeping, they tend to provide you with a confusing array of information. The first requirement for any business is to know what you’re doing, and what you’re aiming for. The only way to do that is to have good double entry bookkeeping records to provide quality accounting information and to be able to understand what that information means for your business.