Bob Gauvreau breaks down bookkeeping as the daily work of recording transactions and reconciling accounts, while accounting is the layer that interprets that data and generates reports to guide business decisions.
Let's talk about the difference between accounting and bookkeeping, because there are quite a few differences. So bookkeeping is really the day-to-day managing of the finances inside a business. So bookkeeping would entail recording all the transactions that go through a business, matching up what's going through the bank account to the records inside the accounting software or inside the platform, making sure that we're allocating all the expenses to the right categories, but mostly managing the data that goes into what we refer to as a general ledger. When I think of the accounting numbers, I think of The Matrix. You guys remember The Matrix where there's essentially code coming down the screen and nobody really knows what it is unless they're living in The Matrix. The accounting side is looking at those reports and making the data make sense, understanding how to interpret it and understanding what these reports mean, because the accounting side is how we use that information to make informed decisions.
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