Accounting 101

Business Disciplines

There are many disciplines that are necessary to run a commercial business. There are people who man the phones and run the lobbies to welcome visitors. There will also be those produce the products you promote. Others will be involved in providing services to clients, whether consultants, sales personnel, designers, craftsmen or even service technicians that perform their duties on the road. 

Companies Need Accountants

Companies, large and small, also need accountants. These individuals are the ones that do the counting that is necessary for every business to know where they stand, financially. This is where 

business and technology come together.

What is Accounting?

Accounting is the art of counting things. The things they count are the income and expenses accrued due to business operations. Every financial event that happens, within the context of doing business, is recorded into a system that can help to manage it for reporting purposes. The major reasons for accounting are to prepare normal tax reports and to illustrate to shareholders and financial institutions what the financial condition is of the business at various times during the year.

Accounting Technology

In years gone by, all of the math needed to make the numbers understandable was performed by hand, first on clay pots, then Papyrus, paper and then on computers. There are many computer programs designed specifically to accept the numbers counted and to do all of the mathematical manipulations necessary to present the financial condition of the company in such a way that shareholders can know what is happening and it can also be used to secure financing, if necessary for future expansion. If you want help finding such a computer program, you can check out this helpful guide.

Accounting Skills

Accounting is a position that requires schooling and additional training. The requirements are to have basic and advanced math skills, a good concept of economics, as well as, in today's modern world, a knowledge of computers and the software that assist them in this valuable work, for which no business can operate profitably. 

Website Builders: Which Ones Are The Best?

Website Builders

There are many good website builders out there. Some allow you to build stores, some are drag and drop, and some are less customize-able. So when it comes to the BEST, it really depends on what you want your builder to do. If you want something to build a website and have other possibilities, than these are the ones for you. The ones that are most popular will be compared.

Weebly

One of the most used website builders is Weebly. Weelby offers many features, including adsense easily added to the page, additional ages, customize-able backgrounds, and html capabilities. E-commerce features cost more the enable, and they also display the weebly banner and .weebly.com domain unless you upgrade. So Weebly has many good features, but in order to use if as a basic site that would have your own domain and look like it belonged to you, you would have to pay money every month.

Wix

Wix is another builder that has website building capabilities. They are good for general sites. They also offer a domain name you don't have to buy, but it's a .wix domain, and they dislay the banner too. They offer the same possibilities as many other sites if you pay for those features.

Wordpress

The best website building platform is wordpress.org. If you install wordpress onto your domain, you can build a website that looks professional, and make it capable of doing many things for free that other companies would charge for. The only downside is that there are some things you may have to learn to use wordpress efficiently, such as how to update plugins and install them and use them to make the website do what you want it to.

Wordpress is also free to install, and has themes and plugins that are free with upgrades available. But if you can buy the domain, and get your own hosting, you can build the actual site for free on wordpress and it will look professional as well.

Welcome

Welcome To I Know I'm Tired!

Hello there! Welcome to my blog. I've been meaning to start writing again...it's been such a long time. I love technology and business-related topics, and so that's what most of this blog is going to be all about. I hope I will be able to post frequently...that's the plan. Unfortunately my day job keeps me late quite often, and by the time I get home I'm too brain fried to publish content...hence the blog's name. Hope you enjoy reading my humble content!

-Tom