The following 13 resources will help you learn more about “Accounting & Bookkeeping, HR & Taxes”. Are you looking to take the leap into starting your own business? If you’re just starting to think about it, or if you have been planning it for a while, you still may have lots of unanswered questions.

1. Accounting Basics – Staying on top of your small business bookkeeping is important to your business financing. Learn how to manage your business’ bookkeeping and more.
2. Basic Accounting – Advice for start-ups, entrepreneurs, and small business owners on basic accounting, including how to calculate and track cash flow, profitability, earnings, Ebitda, gross margin, and a business’s breakeven point.
3. Best Accounting Software Comparisons and Reviews – Compare the top ten accounting and bookkeeping software products for your small business.
   

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4. SBA on Hiring – When you’re ready to hire employees to work in your business, you’ll need to perform a few key steps to be in compliance with employment laws, and to ensure that your new employees understand the work for which they’ve been hired.
5. Inc. on Recruiting and Hiring Employees – Advice for small business owners and entrepreneurs on recruiting and hiring employees
6. NOLO on Hiring Employees – When you hire employees, you need to know the rules on job descriptions, interviews, background checks and more. Find out how to gather the information you need and choose the right employee — without violating the law.
7. Open Forum on Employee Management – Current archive of over 230 posts on employee management.
8. About.com on Human Resources – This section of About covers HR management, workplace communication, job descriptions, policies, leadership, and more.
9. Entrepreneur on Managing Employees – Managing employees can be a difficult task. Here is an online guide to managing employees.
10. Fast Company on Hiring Employees – These features can help you identify the skills you need your employees to possess, find the employees you need, and how to link them up with the teams that will best bring out their potential.
    

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11. Small Business Tax Center – When you’re running a business, you don’t need to be a tax expert, too. But you do need some tax basics. IRS Small Business Advantage gives you the information you need to stay tax compliant so your business can thrive.
12. SBA on Taxes – This section helps you with every aspect of the taxes you must collect from your customers, including strategies for tax record-keeping.
13. Small Business Tax Strategies – Tax planning is a year-round event if you want to minimize your business’s tax bill. Whether it’s surviving an audit, capitalizing on business deductions, or finding tax-friendly ways to run your business, this Inc.com guide can help reduce your tax obligations and make paying taxes less anxiety provoking.