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Accounting and finance for Small Businesses

4 points by Madintelligence ↗ HN
After writing a small ebook on UX Journey Mapping @ www.madintelligence.com, I am looking to write another E-book on Financial Statement Analysis, Financial Accounting and Simple Management Accounting. I'd love to hear what topics innovators want to find out about and dominate - this is more of my topic of concentration, having worked as an accountant, so I'd love to target it specially to the innovators here!

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Madintelligence
For some background, the topics that I was thinking about: 1. Introduction to accounting 2. Differences between accounting systems (cash vs. accrual) 3. How to effectively use information in an accounting system 4. How to account for expenses/income/assets/liabilities 5. What is a financial statement? 6. How to use accounting for managing your company 7. How to analyse a financial statement 8. What is finance? How does it affect financial accounting? 9. How to account for intangible assets? 10. How to account in different geographies (America, Australia, England)
stephengillie
That's a good list to introduce accounting, managerial accounting, and financial accounting.

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You could write about more entrepreneurship topics:

Salary negotiation and valuating yourself.

Sunk costs and how to walk away from a bad decision.

Understanding stock options as a prospective employee.

Understanding venture capital investing from the VC perspective.

Different types of business entities and their benefits (sole proprietorship, s-corp, etc).

Advantages of incorporating in certain states or countries (like Delaware) and disadvantages (like Megaupload).