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I’m not going to talk much about tax accounting or tax preparation in this book, but one of the key reasons why you do accounting and use a program such as QuickBooks is to make your tax accounting easier. That’s obvious. So a fair question is this: How does what I’ve said so far relate to income tax return preparation?

This question is a tough one to answer. Tax laws typically don’t map to generally accepted accounting principles. Generally accepted accounting principles aren’t the same thing as income tax law. If you use good basic accounting practices as you operate QuickBooks, however, you get financial information that you can use to easily prepare your tax returns, especially if you get some help from your certified public accountant (CPA).

If you want, you can also use income tax rules to fine-tune your accounting and bookkeeping. This practice, which is technically known as an other comprehensive basis of accounting (OCBOA), is generally considered to be an appropriate way to perform accounting for small and medium-size enterprises.