title: Radically Simple Accounting: A Way Out of the Dark and Into the Profit
author:  Madeline Bailey 
description: Makes accounting accessible to even the most ignorant bookkeeping novice. By using common analogies, the author reduces complex information into concepts that are easy to understand. It's so nice...definitions in the text. --Writer Digest Magazine<br /><br />Keeps its promise to make accounting both enlightening and engaging. Whether you want to do the books, bring order to your finances, or simply understand what your bookkeeper is up to, this is a great investment. --Hugh O'Donnell, Mentor Learning LLC
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  ELIZABETH MOON
  
  
  AURA
  
  
  Once a year everyone else hated numbers as much as she did. She faced the pile
  of bank statements, receipts, 1099s, and W-2s with the comforting certainty
  that everyone else -- all hundred million or so heads of household (or their
  spouses)
  
  
  \-- felt exactly the same about the columns of numbers. Taxes again. Some
  people used computers, of course, and some had accountants. She had herself,
  four sharp pencils, and a pen to ink over the numbers if they ever balanced.
  
  
  Brad would check them before she inked them. In an ordinary year, he would
  expect nothing of her but a steady supply of coffee and snacks, and the
  assembly of the documents, but this year he had orders --doctor's orders -not
  to bother himself with tax preparation. He was sure she could do the taxes if
  she tried.
  
  
  He had recovered pretty well from the stroke, but he found it very hard to
  read.
  
  
  The words, he said, jumped around on the page.
  
  
  She knew all about that, but with 