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Friday, August 24, 2012

What is accounting?


What is accounting?

Accounting is the recording of financial transactions plus storing, sorting, retrieving, summarizing, and presenting the information in various reports and analyses.

Accounting is also a profession consisting of individuals having the formal education to carry out these tasks.

Accounting also entails providing a company’s management with the information it needs to keep the business financially healthy. These analyses and reports are not distributed outside of the company.

Three areas of internal analyses and reports are: 
[1]. Budgets, 
[2]. Standards for controlling operations, and 
[3]. Estimating selling prices for quoting new projects. 
      This accounting is known as management accounting.

Another accounting involves compliance with government regulations pertaining to income tax reporting. 

Present days the recording, storing and sorting aspects of accounting have been automated by the advances in computer technology.

What is Managerial Accounting?

The process of identifying, measuring, analyzing, interpreting, and communicating information for the pursuit of an organization's goals

What is Financial Accounting?

Reporting of the financial position and performance of a firm through financial statements issued to external users on a periodic basis.

What is the difference between financial and managerial accounting ?

The key difference between financial and managerial accounting is that financial accounting is aimed at providing information to parties outside the organization, whereas managerial accounting information is aimed at helping managers within the organization make decisions.

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