As boring as it may be, especially when compared to the
inherent thrills of light construction, there's no business
without bookkeeping. The small business environment is
flooded with "easy-to-use" accounting software programs, to
help us dispatch this odious task electronically. Apparently,
they're not easy enough, as a busy industry of well-attended
how-to services and seminars attests.
Angelo Ventresca, Jr., the author of Basic Bookkeeping for
Beginners & Small Businesses (1999; Angelo Ventresca
Associates, RR 5 Box 54, Montrose, PA 18801; 570/278-2721;
$20), states that "… one cannot
properly operate a computer bookkeeping
program until manual
bookkeeping is understood." The
accuracy of computer data is often
summarized with a related
thought, "garbage in, garbage out."
So, even though