Inside Independent Publishing (with Ibpa)

Lisa London, CPA, author, and publisher, discusses many of the specialized points of accounting that every publisher needs to know This podcast looks at many of the things publishers need to know when setting up and using accounting packages to manage revenue, expenses, and taxes. Among the subjects mentioned are: keep it simple! automate everything you can is Quickbooks a good package for publishers? are there others? how to manage royalties the importance of understanding the contracts you sign and their related costs aligning items to your accounting needs and to proper categories the need to be consistent the need to document using attachments in Quickbooks working with e-commerce sites that feed into your accounting package, and vice versa putting money aside to pay your taxes capitalization rules changes ahead thoughts on use tax: does it apply to your business? Some of the goods and services mentioned in the podcast include: Xero accounting package: https://www.xero.com/ Sage accounting package: htt