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Intro to Accounting with QuickBooks for Startups, Software Development Companies, and Small Businesses
1. Intro to Accounting
For startups and small business
Yair Flicker, Betamore, 3/19/13
http://smartlogicsolutions.com
2. What Weâll Cover
⢠Legal decisions to makeâand related tax
consequences
⢠Accrual vs. Cash
⢠Fundamental Accounting Reports
⢠Principles of Accounting
⢠Setting up a QuickBooks ďŹle
3. My Experience
⢠SmartLogic Solutionsâ2005 to present
⢠Maryland Nonstock LLC / s-corp
⢠Bikemoreâ2012 to present
⢠Maryland Nonstock NonproďŹt Corp
⢠TeamPasswordâ2013 to present
⢠Maryland Stock Corp / s-corp
4. My Experience
⢠Took Intro to Accounting 10 years ago
⢠Mostly self-taught or gleaned from my
accountants
⢠NOT a tax professional
6. About the Accounting
Industry
⢠Not the most progressive
⢠Doesnât change a whole lot
⢠QuickBooks is the canonical tool for small
operations
⢠But accountants do know accounting really
well
7. Whoâs in the Room?
⢠Your Name
⢠Company Name(s)
⢠Stock / Nonstock?
⢠S/C-Corp, Partnership, Sole Proprietor
⢠Payroll?
9. Why Incorporate?
⢠Make money for shareholders
⢠Do warm and fuzzy stuff
⢠Make money for shareholders
⢠Limit liability
10. Type of Maryland
Corporations
⢠www.dat.state.md.us/sdatweb/
sdatforms.html
⢠Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
⢠Stock Corporation
⢠Nonstock Corporation
⢠Some others, but who cares
11. S Corp vs. C Corp?
⢠Taxed once ⢠Taxed at corporate level
⢠Pass-through income ⢠Dividends get taxed again
(K1)
⢠Canât easily convert to S
⢠Can convert to C Corp
Corp relatively easily
⢠No practical restrictions
⢠< 100 shareholders on shareholders
⢠One class of ⢠Multiple classes of
shareholders shareholders are okay
12. Form 2553
⢠States donât care if youâre S corp or C corp
⢠The IRS does! File Form 2553 ASAP if
youâre going S corp!
13. Section 83(b)
⢠Applicable to stock corporations
⢠Send to IRS
⢠Protects you from recognizing income on
stock that is vesting and increasing in value
⢠Send it w/in 30 days of incorporation or
you are screwed
15. Make Tax Filing Easy
⢠But please donât prepare your own
corporate returns
16. Make Informed
Decisions
⢠How many more development
sprints do I have?
⢠How will hiring this person
affect my monthly burn? Â I.e.
can I hire this person.
⢠Based off my runway, how
urgently do I need to do the
horse and pony show?
17. Make Informed
Decisions
⢠How will increasing
marketing spend to $XXX
affect my runway?
⢠How urgently and
aggressively do I need to
collect on debts?
⢠How much do I owe to
creditors?
18. How to Keep the
Books in Order?
⢠Simple, repeatable, deterministic processes
⢠Or pay someone
20. Two Styles of
Accounting
⢠Cash basis: revenue is realized when you
get a check or cash
⢠Accrual basis: income/expenses are realized
when you issue/receive an invoice
⢠Go cash basis.
21. SAAS Companies
⢠Invoicing? Who does that any more?
⢠Youâll probably collect money right away
⢠Net effect: cash = accrual basis
22. Services Companies
⢠Send out large invoices
⢠Some clients pay when they want to
⢠You still owe your creditors (credit card)
23. My Preference: Cash
⢠I want to know how much
cash I have
⢠Allows for safest decision
making
⢠I still look at reports seeing
how many invoices are
outstanding (weâll look at
these shortly)
38. The Balance Sheet
⢠The 50,000â view
⢠Shows the âbook valueâ for a speciďŹc
moment in time
⢠Doesnât tell you much about the companyâs
operations
39. The Balance Sheet
⢠Shows Assets, Liabilities, Equity
⢠Nothing about salaries, wages, marketing
expenses, conferences, events, travel, meals,
etc.
41. The P&L Statement
⢠AKA Income Statement, Earnings
Statement, etc.
⢠Shows income vs. expense over a period of
time
⢠Grouped by income and expense account
43. Other Income/Expense
Not a result of normal business operations (e.g.
dividends from stocks, taxes to foreign governments
paid on those dividends, etc.)
44. Common Income
Account Names
⢠Service Revenue
⢠Product Revenue
⢠Write Offs
⢠Cost of Good Sold
45. Example Expense
Accounts
⢠Advertising
⢠Insurance
⢠Marketing
⢠OfďŹce Equipment
⢠Payroll Expenses
⢠Professional Fees
48. A/R Statement
⢠Money owed to you by your clients
⢠If recording on accrual basis A/R is an asset
49. A/R Questions
⢠How much is my company owed?
⢠How much credit have I extended to my
clients?
⢠How good am I at collecting debts owed to
me?
⢠How much money can I expect to come in
soon?
50. A/R Questions
⢠Is this client dissatisďŹed? Theyâre late on an
invoice, which is not a good sign.
⢠Did they lose my invoice?
⢠Are they incompetent?
⢠Do they jerk around their vendors?
51. A/R Questions
⢠Who do I need to sue (or at least threaten
legal action against)?
⢠Is this client a deadbeat?
⢠Is this client running out of cash?Is my
client ďŹnancially distressed? Do I need to
stop doing business with this client?
52. A/R Statement for
Services Companies
⢠Grouped by client
⢠Further grouped by job
53. A/R Statements for
Product Companies
⢠Not sure they make much sense if youâre
not issuing many invoices
⢠37signals isnât looking at A/R statements
⢠Create your own reports
56. A/P Statement
⢠Debts owed by you to vendors in exchange
for goods or services rendered by the
vendor to your business
⢠You record a debt to A/P when you get an
invoice
⢠If recording on an accrual basis A/P is a
Liability on the balance sheet
57. A/P Questions
⢠How much do I owe vendors?
⢠When do I need to pay the vendors?
⢠Can I cut some of these expenses?
⢠Can I negotiate different payment terms?
58. Check out an A/P
Statement?
Nah, pretty much the same as A/R
60. Double-Entry System
⢠All transactions are recorded
in TWO accounts
⢠You increase one account
⢠You decrease another
account
⢠(Money doesnât materialize
out of thin air)
65. T-Accounts / Assets
⢠Debits INCREASE asset accounts
⢠Credits DECREASE assets accounts
⢠When cash hits your bank (an asset), add a
Debit entry to an asset account
⢠When you write a check from your bank,
add a Credit entry to an asset account
66. T-Accounts / Liabilities
or Equities
⢠Debits DECREASE the value of
liabilities and equities accounts
⢠Credits INCREASE the value of
liabilities and equities accounts
67. T-Accounts / Liabilities
or Equities
⢠When you run up your credit card (i.e. use
your credit card to buy something), you are
adding a Credit entry to a liability account
⢠When you pay down your line of credit you
are adding a Debit entry to a liability
account
68. T-Accounts / Liabilities
or Equities
⢠When you put in personal money, e.g. when
you formed your company, you are adding a
Credit entry to an equity account
⢠When you issue a dividend to stockholders
you are adding a Debit entry to an equity
account
69. Nifty Things Happen
⢠Sum of all credits = Sum of all debits
⢠Credits - Debits = 0
⢠Sum up everything and it equals 0!!!
⢠Corollary: if you sum up all your accounts
and itâs not 0, you messed something up
70. Letâs do Some
Examples
⢠Invest $10k into your company
⢠Invoice a client for $2,400
⢠Collect $2,000 of that in cash
⢠Buy a fancy iPad for $500
⢠Lawyers invoice you $300
⢠You pay that invoice by check