TheRodinhoods

Audit, Accounts & Other Greek Words

Upon registering the company, One thing I was confident about was managing accounts.

I had maintained government accounts for years and had ample knowledge. I was comfortable with double entry systems and was never confused between debit and credit 😉

First Year: I went on a software searching spree which could help us maintain accounts accurately and quickly. Right from paid ones to free SaaS ones, and the ones in google apps, I saw many. Then finally zeroed on to GnuCash.

It is a fabulous software, Open Source, Free (as in beer), and if you have the basics in place, then it is quite easy to keep record. Releigiously I maintained first year accounts (it was easy coz most was expense).

Then I exported reports and balance sheet and sent it to my CA after the Fin year ended.

Audit: My CA told me that best practice would be to keep collecting all possible recipts and just give it to him at the year end for expense accounting. (Ahem !!). Income was not much but giving an annual bank statement of accounts would suffice. (OK). Then came the trickier questions if I had deducted any TDS and what about service tax.(Blank)

Second Year I shifted to Wave Accounting in Google apps as it promises to remain free forever. Further it can directly pick the entries from my bank account(s) and sync them with manual entries. Easy peasy. We did second year records, too.

Then came audit. The CA had same questions, same time was spent again with him, irrespective of software. 

And then I saw the detailed returns he had filed. And then i saw them again.

My Learnings:

Now Let’s talk about Invoices (or Income, if there is any 😉 )

MONEYMETER: INR 0 till now

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