Duluth/Johns Creek/Alpharetta CPA Advises Atlanta Business Owners on Preparing a Profit and Loss…The Atlanta Bookkeeping Series
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Duluth/Johns Creek/Alpharetta CPA Advises Atlanta Business Owners on Preparing a Profit and Loss…The Atlanta Bookkeeping Series
How to Prepare a Profit & Loss
A well presented Profit & Loss will be broken out in the sales section, cost of goods sold, and general and administrative expenses. Many businesses will break out their sales and cost of goods sold accounts into several categories that might be useful for review and analysis.
In evaluating your company’s financial, it is usually best to review your profit and loss being sure to show the current period under review as well as the year to date totals. This will have the added advantage of reviewing specifically the most current operations for any significant variances or trends as well as contemplation of where you stand vs. your annual and year to date goals. Your financials are best reviewed and presented when you also add a column which calculates items as a percentage of sales which allows the reviewer to have a good grasp/rule of thumb of which to measure operational results.
Frequently financial statements are unduly cluttered with accounts that have no financial, operational, or tax significance. A company’s statement should be concise giving the business owner as well as the CPA meaningful information without unnecessary data. A financial statement, like a heart monitor in a hospital, is the barometer that measures the lifeblood of a business, giving its holder critical and insightful information that is needed for all short and long term operational and strategic decisions.
Understanding and analyzing your company’s financial statement is one of the most critical aspects to having information to properly manage your business. Our exhaustive experience in this field will help guide and direct you to understanding this critical aspect of your business.
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