Account Structure for a Medical / Physician / Primary Care Office

[Milton Stern]

Thank you Mr. Klassen,

The tax forms would be a good starting point for many, but I'm afraid that
I'm looking for a little more granularity to help track activity specific
incomes/payors and expenses/vendors for business analytics.

Thanks again,

Moshe


On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 6:58 AM, R. Victor Klassen <rvklassen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What I did when starting up a business was to consult the tax forms for
> the categories of expenses I would later be reporting for tax purposes.
>
> Some of those categories are worth subdividing; some don’t apply; most
> taxation systems have an “other expenses” category which could be
> significant.
>
> But if you don’t get a direct response from anyone with a chart of
> accounts, that’s a start.
>
> On May 10, 2015, at 12:05 AM, Milton Stern <drmoshe5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thank you for the advice and direction.
> >
> > At this time, I'm in the planning stage of opening a medical practice
> > startup on a shoestring.
> > If someone has a proven Chart of Accounts in the group, that would likely
> > be the most cost efficient for me at this time.
> >
> > Moshe
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:04 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>> On May 6, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Milton Stern <drmoshe5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Would anybody have references, or be willing to share, an appropriate
> >>> GnuCash Account Structure for a Solo Medical / Physician / Primary Care
> >>> Office?
> >>
> >> You can use whatever Chart of Accounts you’d use with paper books. The
> >> business template will probably be pretty close. That said, if you don’t
> >> already know what accounts you need you probably should hire an
> accountant
> >> to help you get set up, and it might be in your interest to use a
> >> commercial integrated program that helps you deal with all of the other
> >> stuff that running a practice involves. After all, you want to spend
> your
> >> time seeing patients rather than doing by hand work that a computer can
> do
> >> for you.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> John Ralls
> >>
> >>
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