Practical accounting guides
Worked examples and reviewable sources for personal budgeting, daily cash checks, product margins and small-business recordkeeping.
Explore guides for personal records, customer payments, expenses and small-business inventory. Use the language menu on any article to read its Arabic or English edition.
96 articles in English · Showing 37–48
Payment reconciliation
Follow 2,400 of captured payments to a 1,902 bank payout. Separate refunds, fees, a dispute debit and held funds without counting revenue or the reserve twice.
Read the guide →Personal bookkeeping
A worked budget with payment dates, planned versus actual spending and a seasonal fund. See how to absorb a higher bill without counting savings or debt payments twice.
Read the guide →Account Management
Who owes whom? Distinguish the relationship between debtor and creditor from the debit and credit sides of an accounting entry, and see how payments affect balances.
Read the guide →Account Management
A free Excel template for one account and one currency, with 50 transaction rows, an automatic balance and a worked example of new debt versus repayment.
Read the guide →Account Statements and Reports
Reconcile debts and payments with the balance and account statement, and check for missing or duplicate entries before starting another month.
Read the guide →Account Management
A service worth 1,200 and two payments totaling 900: record what you received, what the client still owes, and the costs of doing the work separately.
Read the guide →Daily Accounting
Understand the difference between spending, lending money, and transferring it between your own accounts. Use consistent notes and a worked monthly reconciliation to explain every amount before planning next month.
Read the guide →Account Management
Keep personal loans, repayments, and everyday expenses in clear records. Start with a 500 loan and a 200 repayment, then learn how to review balances, freelance payments, PDF statements, and backups.
Read the guide →Customers and Suppliers
Wholesale work connects orders, stock, deliveries, invoices, and collections. Build a traceable operating cycle with clear references, partial deliveries, returns, credit limits, and representative cash handovers.
Read the guide →Inventory and Retail
Connect quotations, orders, deliveries, inventory, transport, contractor balances and collections through a practical example and a daily control checklist.
Read the guide →Cash Flow and Reports
Build a weekly cash forecast that connects your opening balance, collections and payments, and reveals potential shortfalls through scenarios you can update.
Read the guide →Inventory and pricing
Follow a unit costing 53 and selling for 72. Compare margin with markup, check the effect of a discount and payment fee, and keep an inventory loss separate from the cost of sound units.
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