Lessons
Intro & Overview of Bookkeeping
20:03 2Why Bother Bookkeeping?
17:50 3Your Sustainable Wage
12:26 4Cash vs. Accrual Accounting
12:17 5Chart of Accounts
13:12 6Understanding Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)
17:28 7Marketing and Selling
07:27 8Product Development
33:22Covering the Bases: Labor and Insurance
04:41 10Sales Tax: Consumption, Sales, & Service
10:48 11Understanding VAT
10:43 12Sales Tax: Retail & Prepaid
05:09 13Bookkeeping for Income
13:17 14Understanding Inventory & Equity
32:13 15Bookkeeping for Expenses
19:25 16Updating Your Inventory Effectively
27:16 17Tracking Your Expense Receipts
18:58 18Keep Business & Personal Separated
06:51 19Product Profitability
21:23 20The Value of Your Materials and Outsourcing
22:54 21Product Choices and Marketing Spheres
15:06 22Demonstrating Your Market Knowledge
23:29 23Documenting Money Flow
33:38 24Identifying Profit and Loss
25:50 25Budgeting Forecast and Goals
25:47 26Cash Flow Forecasting
25:32 27The Four Ps and the Importance of Pricing
07:24 28Pricing Formulas
08:18 29Pricing Etiquette Don't
16:12 30Return on Investment (ROI) of "Free"
18:59 31Focusing on Free
08:31 32When to Reinvest or Take Money Out
07:36 33Personal Finance
24:01Lesson Info
Sales Tax: Retail & Prepaid
So we talked about how sales tax is applied on ly if, uh it is the end user on ly at the end user state but there are a couple of other criteria that makes something sales taxable and we talked all about all kinds of exceptions to but in the general sense an item is sales taxable if it is tangible if you can hold it in your hands um the us currently does not charge sales tax for digital goods um congress has been working on legislation for years to change that but you know how congress has these days um so it keeps I don't know dying in committee and then every year they raise it again and so every year is the same law over and over and over again that they keep debating it is a tangible good sold retail to that end user in the chain and it's within your own state so when you enter something into your ledger uh, you will need to put in either the sales tax rate for where you've sold it. So here in california we have to go by the district tax rates um so you'll have to mark in exactly w...
hat district it was and what the sales tax rate is for that district or you have to put in a reason why it's not taxable it's either not tangible it's not retail iii it's wholesale or you sold it out of state, so you'll need to mark that down because when you send in a sales tax return in general, you will need to say I've collected x amount of sales tax in all of these different counties or district's um, and then I didn't collect sales tax on all the rest of my sales because this much of my sales was out of state. This left much of my sales was digital goods this much of my sales, uh, was sold wholesale. Did I do all three of those? I feel like I maybe got them wrong, you're out of order. Um, uh, okay, so, uh, we also mentioned earlier this thing that I'm going to tell you is called prepaid sales tax that's if you paid sale sex on something that you weren't supposed to so let's say you go to joanne or michaels and you buy some, uh, yarn you're gonna pay sales tax on that they don't know that you're going to turn that into a hat that you're then gonna resell to someone if they think you're the end user, they don't realize that you're a wholesale uh, that you were a retailer who is then going to sell that to an end user, so if you've paid sales tax on something that you are actually buying wholesale you would take that out and entered into your ledger as prepaid sales tax so that at the end of the year you can deduct that from what you send the state because you don't have to pay for that stuff twice thankfully who um uh we're gonna look at the ledger in a little bit um we're gonna practice exactly that. Um, does anyone have any questions about the sales or that or gsd so far? Yes, when you're figuring out what district our county's tax rate you're looking you need is that based on where the sale took place, where the client lives or where you're you're based uh yeah, so it takes its based on where the product ended up. So if I sold something to someone in new york but they were having it shipped as a gift to someone here in california, I would still charge them sales tax even though the buyer was located in new york because wherever the product ends up is where you pay the sales. So if it ended up in l a it's nine percent um if I sold it right here in san francisco eight and a half um and so you would have to look up if you are in a state that has sales tax, you will have to look up the chart of all the district if they charge tax at a district level, you would have to look up a chart of all the district's and figure out, you know, what the rate is in this county versus this county versus this county, which is super fiddly and fussy and irritating. But it's the law, hey, what you gonna do? Um, you know all those, like ballot initiatives that people have, where they charge, like we're going to charge an extra quarter percent sales tax to build new schools. That's, how this comes into effect is that each little district then has a different sales tax rate. And then people like us collected, and then we send it in at the end of the year, and presumably had build schools. Um, but that's, a really good question.
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Ratings and Reviews
Aleks
There is so much fantastic information in this course that I had to purchase it even though I watched the free broadcast. It's real hands-on stuff, not a general description of what bookkeeping might be, but an actual guide to manage your business' finances. Thank you for all the insights and workbooks! I highly recommend this class.
Bekah Kitterman
Months after watching the live broadcast of this course, I am still so glad I bought it. I find myself coming back to it over and over again just to refresh my brain on how to manage all of my numbers. I'm new at having a business and doing my own bookkeeping, and this course has been extremely helpful as a tool to help me set things up well and keep me on track. Highly recommend especially for those new to business and bookkeeping or intimidated by taking care of your numbers!
Carla Sam
Wow, this course was jam packed full of insightful information (not just about book keeping!). Lauren was great at simplifying the process! Even though I watched most of the 2 days free broadcast, it was a wise investment to purchase the course and now I can re-watch at my leisure and fully take it all in. Thanks Lauren! :D