Accounting and finance for Small Businesses

[Madintelligence]

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!

[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).