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All about the chart of accounts

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The chart of accounts is a systematic listing of all the financial accounts used by an organization. It serves as a framework for organizing and classifying financial transactions, providing a standardized structure for recording and reporting financial information. Here's how it typically functions.

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Finance vs. Accounting

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The terms “finance” and “accounting” are often used interchangeably. There are, however, very real differences between finance and accounting. While many business owners look for a CFO to bolster their existing accounting team, here at CFO Simplified, we consider that a CFO would be categorized squarely in the finance category.

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How FinTech Helps SMBs Get A Grip On The Numbers

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Financial management is mission-critical to the health and vitality of small business (SMB), but it’s also one of the most difficult tasks for entrepreneurs and business owners that may have the skills to launch new products or services, but lack the accounting expertise to handle the numbers. The firm secured $1.8

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Financial Projections and Analysis – Considerations for Businesses

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Originally published: 3/23/2020 Updated: 1/8/2023 Why are financial projections important and how can they inform a company’s financial analysis to increase confidence in the numbers? To answer that question, we need to take a step back.

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Rethinking The Roles Of Data, Accountants In SMB Finance

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FinTech and automation technology have cast a shadow of anxiety on the accounting industry in recent years, as certified public accountants (CPAs) began to wonder whether their jobs would be replaced entirely by robots. Because there is a big disconnect between the accounting industry and the small business owner.”

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Musings on Markets: Back in the Classroom: Time to Teach!

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With each of my classes, I am sure that purists in each of these areas would blanch not just at my choice of topics that matter, but also at my sloppiness in description, but I will let you be the judge of content. The place to start is with accounting. Along the way, I emphasize what I believe to be long standing truths about valuation.

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Musings on Markets: A Return to Teaching: The Spring 2023 Edition

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If there is a lesson be learnt from the last few years of market mayhem, it is that far too many investors, professional as well as retail, seem to have lost their moorings (or never had them in the first place), when it comes to the basics of accounting, finance and statistics.

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