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If you're the type of small-business owner who prefers to spend your time cooking food or making pottery to working, you may resent the time and effort you have to put into accounting. However, ...

If you run a small business, you may not know much about the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). After all, GAAP standards apply mainly to publicly traded companies, so these rules don’t ...