Dome Publishing, founded in 1940 by CPA Nicholas Picchione, publishes a series of

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s designed to simplify the

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process for small businesses (especially those whose personnel are not experienced in bookkeeping and accounting), as well as software based on their ledgers and several

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products for use in business and other settings. Their flagship products are their weekly and monthly ledgers, though Dome also sells books for

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and other record keeping. "Nicholas Picchione, 81, dies; CPA, author, lecturer, publishe
Providence Journal
Dec 2, 1984 Dome also publishes several of their books co-branded with Avon and targets them towards home-based and

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businesses, as well as a Spanish-language edition of their monthly ledger. With one of the most popular products for pencil-and-paper accounting, Dome products offers a small business accounting software program called Dome Accounting By Computer.

Format

The Dome accounting method used in their ''Weekly'' and ''Monthly Bookkeeping Record''s is essentially a simplified form of

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. Each standard accounting ledger begins with a basic introduction to accounting and a summary of US tax law, followed by a ledger section, which consists of a series of pages to record business expenditures followed by a summation page that lists daily receipts next to a categorized summary of expenditures; after this is a balance sheet and a summary sheet for tax purposes. After the ledger section in the monthly edition, a payroll section with a similar organization follows.

References

External links

Dome Publishing websiteStash Bookkeeping
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