Do You Need Some Accounting Questions Answered?   by Rudy Silva

in Finance / Accounting    (submitted 2010-02-22)

Do you have an accounting question? Do you need help on where to start? The internet is a good place to start. For tough accounting questions, you need an expert. Longer answer may need payment. Simple answers are cheap or free. This article will help you find answers.

The internet is a virtual world where your queries, such as accounting questions, are easily answered. There are several ways to find answers to financial accounting questions on the web. The first one is through following blogs.
There are many web sites and blog sites that discuss accounting. There are blog hosts whose niche is tax accounting, a method of accounting focusing on tax issues, which include all activities involving filing of tax returns and planning for future tax filing.
Some accountants who are expert in cost accounting impart their knowledge on the web through blogs and informational articles. To find them, you can search for the answers to your specific questions on the search engines.
For example, if your accounting questions are about property accounting, you simply type in such words on the search box, and the search engines will provide you with results. If you want to be specific, you can type the whole question "what is property accounting?"
When you find web blogs and web sites that contain information on accounting, you can do three things. You can bookmark that page so you can get back to it anytime with ease. You can also become a follower of such blog site and be among the first to know about new posts.
This initiative is really helpful because it keeps you abreast of all accounting developments. Depending on the features of blog site, you can leave comments below the posts or you can ask follow-up questions for further information.
Another thing that you can do is to subscribe to newsletters, which is so burdensome because you can opt-out at anytime you want. E-books are also a good source of answers to your accounting questions.
There are e-books which are readily available. Some of the authors grant full access to these mini e-books without any costs. You can download them without requirements anytime. Because they are free, such mini e-books hardly contain complete information about the subject.
However, not all e-books are free. Complete e-books come with varying prices depending on the author, contents and topics. Complete e-books discuss several sub topics of financial accounting such as cost accounting, payroll accounting, accounting depreciation and debit and audit accounting.
There are websites designed to answer almost all kinds of questions. At times, such websites contain information that covers one or two chapters about the subject. So if you have accounting questions, the subject may be discussed in full-length.
Colleges and universities which maintain official website are also a great source of information about the courses they offer. Not only do they provide course description, but also offer useful resources such as e-library, article databases and other similar program.
You can also buy accounting software. In most cases, accounting software packages comes with a CD ROM which you install on your computer, and an e-books. Software packages contain answers to several accounting questions; but they are not free. You have to purchase them either online or at the bookstores.