Want to get seriously savvy with your business accounting, but don’t know where to start? You don’t need to be a professional accountant to decode the jargon. Use these pointers to find out how to make sense of your accounts, balance your budgets, and boost your profit margin.
Colin Barrow is an international property investor and author of Buying a Property in Eastern Europe For Dummies.
John A. Tracy, CPA, is professor of accounting, emeritus, at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Earlier in his career, he was a staff accountant with Ernst & Young.
Cécile Laurin, CPA, CA, is a professor of accounting at Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology in Ottawa. She has been chief financial officer for three engineering firms and a law firm.