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The Complete Accounting Guide for Small Businesses
From your first invoice to your first audit - the plain-English playbook for running clean books without an accounting degree.
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The Purchasing Workflow in AccountDesq
A Purchase Order never touches your ledger. A Goods Receipt does. A Bill does. Here’s the real accounting behind every purchasing screen in AccountDesq.
11 min readUpdated Intermediate
Vijay Patel · Head of Product, Accountdesq
Product Walkthroughs·Guide
Banking & Cash Operations in AccountDesq
What Categorize, Match, and Ignore actually do to a bank line - and which Banking screens genuinely post to your ledger versus which ones only help you decide.
13 min readUpdated Intermediate
Vijay Patel · Head of Product, Accountdesq
Product Walkthroughs·Guide
The Complete Sales Workflow in AccountDesq: From Customer to Cash
Every stage of a sale in AccountDesq, in order - what each status means, exactly what hits your General Ledger and when, and the honest gaps (some things you might expect to be automatic, aren’t).
19 min readUpdated Intermediate
Vijay Patel · Head of Product, Accountdesq
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The Expense Workflow in AccountDesq: From Receipt to Reimbursement and Rebilling
Every step of an employee expense in AccountDesq - capturing receipts, expense reports and approval, what posts to the General Ledger, paying people back (including advances), recharging costs to customers, recurring bills, and the reports that tie it together.
14 min readUpdated Intermediate
Vijay Patel · Head of Product, Accountdesq
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Receivables and Collections in AccountDesq: Aging, Settlements, and Promises-to-Pay
A walkthrough of AccountDesq’s receivables: live AR aging, the Settlement Engine for advances and credit balances, promises-to-pay as a real record, disputes as their own workflow, and the collections center that tells you who to follow up with next.
13 min readUpdated Intermediate
Vijay Patel · Head of Product, Accountdesq
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Point of Sale in AccountDesq: Registers, Restaurant Mode, Gift Cards and Loyalty
A walkthrough of AccountDesq’s point-of-sale: register sessions, restaurant mode’s tables and kitchen display, and how gift cards, loyalty, and coupons each work end to end - plus the honest limits (no live camera barcode scanning, no native bank-feed for the register’s card payments).
12 min readUpdated Intermediate
Vijay Patel · Head of Product, Accountdesq
Product Walkthroughs·Guide
Setting Up Cash Sweep Rules Between Your Bank Accounts
A sweep rule watches one of your bank accounts and auto-transfers whatever sits above a trigger balance into another account of yours, keeping a configured minimum behind - and any transfer it creates still needs a second approver if it clears the threshold.
7 min readUpdated Intermediate
Vijay Patel · Head of Product, Accountdesq
Product Walkthroughs·Guide
Setting Up Positive Pay to Catch Check Fraud
Positive Pay compares checks you have recorded as issued against what Bank Transactions has already matched from your statement, and sorts every one into a status that tells you exactly what happened - including the one status that should never appear.
8 min readUpdated Intermediate
Vijay Patel · Head of Product, Accountdesq
Financial Reporting·Guide
Budget vs. Actual: How to Run a Variance Analysis That Changes Decisions
Comparing budget to actual is easy. Turning that comparison into a decision - cut spend, chase revenue, revise the forecast - is the part most businesses skip.
10 min readUpdated Intermediate
Vijay Patel · Head of Product, Accountdesq
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The Expense Workflow in AccountDesq: From Receipt to Reimbursement and RebillingReceivables and Collections in AccountDesq: Aging, Settlements, and Promises-to-PayPoint of Sale in AccountDesq: Registers, Restaurant Mode, Gift Cards and LoyaltySetting Up Cash Sweep Rules Between Your Bank AccountsSetting Up Positive Pay to Catch Check FraudThe Purchasing Workflow in AccountDesqBanking & Cash Operations in AccountDesqInventory & Fulfillment in AccountDesqThe Complete Sales Workflow in AccountDesq: From Customer to CashSettings, Approvals & Admin in AccountDesqReports & Business Intelligence in AccountDesq
Bookkeeping (5)
Depreciation Methods Explained: Straight-Line vs. Declining BalanceInventory Costing Methods Explained: FIFO vs. Weighted Average vs. Standard CostBank Reconciliation Doesn't Balance? Here's How to Find the DifferenceThe Complete Accounting Guide for Small BusinessesThe Monthly Close: A 90-Minute Checklist
Business Operations (5)
Petty Cash Management: Controls That Actually Prevent ShrinkageAccounting for Multi-Location Businesses: What Changes When You GrowExpense Approval Policy: How to Control Spending Without Slowing Your Team DownVendor Management and the Purchase-to-Pay Process: A Practical GuideSegregation of Duties for Small Business: Approvals, Controls, and Audit Trails
Tax & Compliance (4)
Invoicing (3)
Financial Reporting (2)
Receivables (2)
Small Business Finance (1)
SaaS Finance Workflows (1)
Automation & AI (1)
Learning paths
Curated sequences - read in order, finish with a working skill.
Start Your Business Books
Zero to clean books: the foundation sequence every new business should read in order.
- 1The Complete Accounting Guide for Small Businesses
- 2Invoicing Best Practices: Get Paid 2× Faster
- 3GST, VAT and Sales Tax, Explained Once and For All
- 4The Monthly Close: A 90-Minute Checklist
4 steps · ~48 min total
Master Your Receivables
Get paid faster, handle every exception correctly, and see cash problems weeks early.
- 1Invoicing Best Practices: Get Paid 2× Faster
- 2Customer Credit, Refunds and Reversals: Which One, When
- 3Cash Flow Forecasting for Founders Who Hate Spreadsheets
3 steps · ~27 min total
Grow With Your First Team
The compliance and automation sequence for the moment headcount and volume arrive.
- 1Hiring Your First Employee: Payroll Without Panic
- 2AI in Bookkeeping: What to Automate First (and What Never)
- 3E-Invoicing Mandates Are Spreading: What Changed in 2026
3 steps · ~23 min total
Master the Sales Workflow
From setting up a customer to reconciling the cash - exactly what each stage of a sale does in AccountDesq, and every exception along the way.
- 1The Complete Sales Workflow in AccountDesq: From Customer to Cash
- 2Invoicing Best Practices: Get Paid 2× Faster
- 3Recurring Billing and Subscription Invoicing: A Complete Guide
- 4Customer Credit, Refunds and Reversals: Which One, When
- 5Invoice Still Shows Unpaid After You Recorded the Payment
- 6Bank Reconciliation Doesn't Balance? Here's How to Find the Difference
6 steps · ~63 min total
Master Purchasing
Vendor to Purchase Order to Bill to payment - what actually posts to your books at each stage, and what a "hold" does and doesn’t block.
- 1The Purchasing Workflow in AccountDesq
- 2GST, VAT and Sales Tax, Explained Once and For All
- 3Cash Flow Forecasting for Founders Who Hate Spreadsheets
- 4The Monthly Close: A 90-Minute Checklist
4 steps · ~41 min total
Master Banking Operations
Import a statement, explain every line, and keep transfers, petty cash, and reconciliations under real spending controls.
- 1Banking & Cash Operations in AccountDesq
- 2Bank Reconciliation Doesn't Balance? Here's How to Find the Difference
- 3Cash Flow Forecasting for Founders Who Hate Spreadsheets
3 steps · ~32 min total
Master Inventory & Fulfillment
What posts to the ledger when stock moves, and what stays purely operational - Catalog through cycle counts.
- 1Inventory & Fulfillment in AccountDesq
- 2The Purchasing Workflow in AccountDesq
- 3The Complete Sales Workflow in AccountDesq: From Customer to Cash
- 4Inventory Costing Methods Explained: FIFO vs. Weighted Average vs. Standard Cost
4 steps · ~52 min total
Read Your Numbers
Beyond the core financial statements - which report answers which question, and where its numbers actually come from.
- 1Reports & Business Intelligence in AccountDesq
- 2The Monthly Close: A 90-Minute Checklist
- 3The Complete Accounting Guide for Small Businesses
- 4Year-End Accounting Checklist for Small Business
- 5Accounting for Multi-Location Businesses: What Changes When You Grow
5 steps · ~62 min total
Configure & Administer AccountDesq
Approval limits, the audit trail, journal entries, and every Settings screen - how the controls that keep your books honest actually work.
1 steps · ~12 min total
Understand Your Business Finances
The finance vocabulary and controls that matter once you move past pure bookkeeping - health metrics, subscription revenue, and real approval controls.
- 1Financial Metrics Every Small Business Owner Should Track
- 2Finance Operations for SaaS and Subscription Businesses
- 3Segregation of Duties for Small Business: Approvals, Controls, and Audit Trails
3 steps · ~42 min total
Tools & resources
Put the reading into practice - calculators, templates and checklists, all free.
Invoice GeneratorCreate a compliant invoice in a minute - free.GST / VAT CalculatorInclusive, exclusive, reverse - every direction.Template LibraryInvoices, credit notes, checklists, engagement letters.Monthly Close ChecklistThe printable 90-minute ritual.13-Week Cash ForecastExcel template with the honesty rules built in.Salary Cost CalculatorWhat a hire really costs, by jurisdiction.
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