Questions & Answers about BPA Consulting Services

BPA = bud's practical accounting (Consulting Services)

Q - What are the BPA consulting services?
A - bud's practical accounting consulting supplies a full line of accounting services ranging - From comprehensive business system analysis with recommendations (based on you and your company's needs)
- To simple face to face or email coaching of practical accounting.

Q - Why should I need the skill of reading my own company's Financial Statements?
A - When you develop the skills related to reading your own company's Financial Statements you are developing the skills to understand and monitor your business's financial history.

Q - What is Practical Accounting Coaching?
A - This is coaching you to navigate around your own accounting system, with an understanding of how the financial information ends up in your company reports, in effect its coaching you where financial information comes from and where it ends up in your system. 

Q - Why do I need to understand Navigating the Accounting Software program?
A - Being able to navigate around an accounting software program gives us an understanding about how financial transactions enter into the system and the results (what happened) through reports.

Q - Why should a business man be involved in Chart of Accounts development?
A - The business owner or manager's participation in the development or improvement of the Chart of Accounts will give him a much better understanding of the economic operations of their business.

Q - Why should a business man Understanding Individual Key Revenue Sources?
A - This is not a trick question, the truth is that Sales (Revenue) is what makes the company's world go around, therefore it is imperative that you totally understand all the sources of revenue (no revenue = no company).

Q - What Keys should you look for on the company's Balance Sheet?
A - A simple answer is that you need to quickly see what the major accounts are and know what you are looking for.

Q - What Keys should you look for on the company's Income Statement?
A - You need to see how each group of accounts (Cost of Goods, Operating Exp, Selling Exp, and Admin Exp) relate to total Revenue. 

New Book, The Business Plan & Beyond

I just uploaded the final draft of my new book, The Business Plan and Beyond - Beginner's Guide Book.  I will receive my final proof on Monday the 25th and if I find everything to be OK I will put on my stamp of approval for publication.  Soon after, this new book will be available on Amazon, Create Space Book Store,  and out for distribution to all book stores serviced by Ingram Book Distributors.

I love the cover and believe that individuals just attempting to get their small business off the ground will find it to be a very useful tool.

Contents

	Acknowledgements & Disclaimers	4
	Introduction	5
Ch 1	Business Development	9
Ch 2	General Accounting	39
Ch 3	Legal	53
Ch 4	Financing	61
Ch 5	Insurance	67
Ch 6	Government	71
Ch 7	Leadership	85
	Questions for Review	99
	About the Author	101

I'll post a blog as soon as it is available for purchase.

A Joyful Surprise!

Today I would like to relate a joyful surprise!  I gave one of my books, "Back in the Day", to a daughter of my best friend and also one to her son, my friends grandson, awhile back.  Even though our time of meeting for lunch was related to a sorrowful loss in their family; the two of them were laughing at situations in the book. I was bringing sunshine into their lives through sharing a historical fictional situation involving her Dad and his granddad.

Since that time I have been communicating with both of them through social media where I shared pictures of her Dad, the young man's Granddad, and also a picture of my friends Granddad (who was this young man's Great-GreatGanddad).  I was glad I could bring this to them and therefore have expanded our friendships.

When you write a book, have it published, and then start your distribution process; you have no clue as to how your readers are going to accept it.  I didn't count on "Back in the Day" by RG Bud Phelps to be a best seller but to hear laughter from new friends while they are reading it, brought about "A Joyful Surprise" to me.  If you bring an expression of joy from your readers, it is a reward you didn't expect!  Have I sold a ton of books since it was introduced on Amazon?  No!  Have I heard special comments and expressions of joy from readers after they have read it?  Yes!  Has a long list of reviews appeared on Amazon from readers of "Back in the Day" by RG Bud Phelps?  No, but the ones I have received have been very special to me and I thank the readers who posted them.

Writers should remember this - your goal to have readers enjoy and find that reading your book brought joy to their lives - is priceless!

I ask you, the reader of this blog to read "Back in the Day" to check out why the two readers referred to above were smiling and laughing while reading it.  

My books are show on my Amazon's Author Page - http://www.amazon.com/R.G.-Bud-Phelps/e/B0089GZ2U0/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 My Amazon Author Page

Or on my web site; http://www.budsbooks.com

Review & Rating Request for "Back in the Day"

I am requesting that anyone taking advantage of being able to download my FREE Kindle book, "Back in the Day", to please go on Amazon and post a short review and rating. 

 http://www.amazon.com/Back-Day-High-School-ebook/dp/B00AB3RHM0/ref=pd_rhf_ee_p_t_2_ZFE2

Indies Unlimited book announcement of Back in the Day

Later today you will be able to check out my book announcement for Back in the Day on Indies Unlimited, http://wp.me/p1WnN1-8Tk .

The timing is perfect as I have scheduled a FREE download offering on Amazon for the Kindle edition of Back in the Day for both today (January 30th) and tomorrow (January 31st - which is my 81st birthday).

The link for downloading the FREE book from Amazon is, http://www.amazon.com/Back-Day-High-School-ebook/dp/B00AB3RHM0/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_t_1_5SMA

Sharing Common Family Sayings

I have noticed that all families boast of sayings or phrases spoken by their family and passed along over the generations.  My nephew Mike and his wife visited us in Lincoln and I think one of the highligths of their visit was the opportunity for Mike and I to just spend time together.  We talked about growing up in Curtis and Mike remarked that he was amazed that after reading my new book, "Back in the Day", that the two of us shared very similar experiences growing up as boys (although there was 15 to 20 years difference in the time frame).

We both worked for my Dad to acquire the various things boys felt they needed, me as his son and Mike as his grandson.

As an example:  Dad bought me a horse with the understanding that I would work at his Gamble Store to pay him back for the purchase.  Dad bought Mike a horse with the understanding that he would work at his Gamble Store to pay him back for the purchase.  Dad bought me my first car with the understanding that I would work at his Gamble Store to pay him back for the purchase. Dad bought Mike his first car with the understanding that he would work at his Gamble Store to pay him back for the purchase.

We both did the same things in the summers between our high school years.  We rode our horses over and about the hills around Curtis.  We both loved to fish at both Fox Creek and Medicine Creek.  We both went skinny dipping at those same creeks.  We both went to dances around the area and probably drove our cars over the same gravel roads (probably faster then we should have).  We both went to rodeos in Curits or North Platte on the weekends, and found that the girls were cute both in North Platte and McCook

We were also sharing some of the sayings my Dad said to us during those growing up years.  I am going to share some of them with you now and hopefully you can send me comments sharing common sayings your dads used while you were growing up.

When Dad would get to the end of a story he was telling he would finish with, "...and everything of the kind."  When you needed a haircut he would say, "Don't you think its time for a haircut, you look like Shag's pup."  Or when he wanted you to get busy he might say, "You better get off your butt before I throw you away like a piece of rusty old iron."  One of his gems regarding instructions for my driving was, "Keep your foot out of the carburetor." or "Slow her down, you sure do have a lead foot."

I'm sure that I got another saying I use frequently with my grand kids from Dad, and it's "Boy I tell you!"  My granddaughter Kalyn, who is 22, gets such a kick out of it that she now has here friends either starting with "Boy I tell you!" and ending with it.

While working for him at the store he would sometimes take me out to breakfast at the Aggie Inn before we opened the store, and he would say, "We need some of those "Rib Stickin flap jacks to get a good start on the day."

Think back to your growing up days, and share some of the sayings that you remember through a comment here on my blog.    

"Back in the Day" Info Summary

Back in the Day…is the second book in the “historical life series” of a boy born in Nebraska in 1932, and will cover his ten year period from 1945 to 1955.  The author will take you on “time travel trips” back to specific time frames in the story to maintain the flavor of the places and individual characters in the story from his four years in high school, the summers in-between, and throughout his four years in the U.S. Navy.  You will share his opportunity for adventures in both the places he visits and people he meets.

Genre Classification – Historical Fiction

Back in the Day…was published (October 2012) by CreateSpace as a paperback and also a Kindle-Ready conversion with both of them being immediately available on Amazon.  Expanded distribution was also made available through CreateSpace with distribution to major book stores (like Barnes & Nobel) through Ingram Book Company (the largest U.S. book wholesaler).

Back in the Day Excerpts…

From high school…The juniors and seniors were assigned in pairs for the freshman initiation process, with an attempt to diversify them between farmers, ranchers, or Curtis townspeople.  The pair (Rowdy and Dewayne) who were assigned to Johnny and I approached us, carrying white porcelain pots (hospital bed pans).  Rowdy said, “I know you’re swell little guys, but I want you to do two things.  Drop those silly smiles off your faces immediately, then drop your pants and sit on these pots right in from of the NSA arch.”

From summers in-between…This particular day, Sonny and I had made our way to Fox Creek, and stripped down for a little skinny dipping!  We hung our shirts and pants on bushes, weighted down by our shoes that were stuffed with our socks and skivvies.  We were relaxing in those natural clay bathtubs, when we heard girls’ giggly voices.  The normal thing for us to do was to hunker down as best we could in those deep holes and just wait for them to leave.  The girls, getting braver, came down behind the bushes near the creek bank, and started teasing us by saying, “What are you guys doing?”

From the U.S. Navy…Midday, we were given liberty into Port-au-Prince with our liberty launches landing near the city market area where the natives were selling their wares.  Poverty was everywhere you looked and the little kids’ appearance led you to believe they hadn’t had a meal for some time.  We spotted Commander Shaw just ahead of us in the market area talking to a little boy who was leading a donkey with a rope halter through the area.  We got close enough to hear the conversation and Commander Shaw was offering the little boy $20 for his donkey.  The little guy’s eyes lit up when Commander Shaw handed him the $20, and he in turn handed the commander the rope halter attached to the donkey.  He proceeded to ride his newly acquired donkey across the market area, and when he reached the far side of the area he dismounted.  We noticed that the little boy had been following him all the way across the square.  Commander Shaw handed the rope back to the little boy and told him, “Son, I better not try to take this donkey aboard our ship.  I’ll just give him back to you, and here is $10 more for you to feed him, since he carried me across the square.”  The little boy’s eyes got as big as saucers and he ran right over and hugged the commander’s leg!