Whether you are a new business owner or you have been running a business for many years you know that there are things that you will need help with. You want to make sure that you are able to focus on the products and the services that you have to offer the public. You want to know that what they get is top quality and that you get customers and patrons to come back. The only way to know that you are getting the best out of your business is to know what you have with income. This means that you need to have a way to reconcile your bank accounts and have a good understanding about the bottom line. The bottom line is what your business makes at the end of the day. The problem is that if you are not careful about the charges and the money in your business accounts your information can be wrong. Mark Dicus & Company outlines what you need to know about bank reconciliation services.
Small Business Banking
One of the things that you will have to do when you are running a business is to set up banking in the name of the business. The business accounts that you have should be what is used to run all your business money through. This is the best way to ensure that you are tracking your money in the right way. This is the safest way to ensure that you know what money is coming in and that you pay your fair share of taxes. The problem can be that you have money that is coming in and out of this account to cover all the business needs that it can be hard to keep track and keep it balanced out properly.
Access to Business Banking
The other issue that you might have is that you might have more than one person that is using the account. This means that you might be using the account to cover business expenses and second person is using the account to make deposits of all the money that the business might have made that day or week. The more people that have access to the account the harder it can be to know what the bottom line is of the bank account each day. This might put you in a bad position not being sure what you actually have in your account.
What is Bank Reconciliation?
If you are someone that has ever had a bank account you know that you have to keep track of your spending and your income to know what is in the account. This is a form of balancing your account. When there is a problem and your bottom line does not match what the bank says you have to look back at a few charges to find what you might have missed and this is called reconciliation. The reconciliation of a business account can be much harder to follow and find the discrepancy. It can also be difficult to find what the issue is and the best way to fix it so that you have a proper accounting of the money.
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Mark Dicus & Company can make sure that you have properly reconciled bank accounts. Call us today!