Tag: Bookkeeping
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Double-entry bookkeeping system
The Double Entry Bookkeeping system is scientific, perfect, and a complete method of recording business information in the books of accounts. Generally, in every business transaction, we find two accounts, out of which one account is given debit effect and another account is given credit effect. In other words, in this system for every debit, […]
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What is bookkeeping?
Bookkeeping is a systematic method of keeping and maintaining a record of day to day business transactions in words and figures in the books of accounts so as to show clearly and correctly the financial position of a business. Thus bookkeeping involves the following actions: To record summarized and systematic financial business transactions in the […]
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Journal entries in accounting [Basics]
Journal is one of the most important book of account, in which business transactions are recorded systematically. In layman’s term, we can say it is a book of daily records. When a businessman completes a business transaction, he records it in the rough or waste book in a short and summarized form. Then this business […]
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Classification of accounts: Personal, real, and nominal
An account is a list of business transactions falling under the same description for a given period of time. A systematic and summarized record of business transactions with respect to person, property, loss, gain, income, expense is known as account. An account is generally prepared for one complete year. The word Account in abbreviation, can […]
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Three golden rules of accounting with examples
In the accounting field, especially in the finance section, we are taught to create and pass the journal entries in the books of accounts. One must have knowledge of basic accounting rules in order to maintain the transactional entries. There are three rules here which are known as the three golden rules of accounting, in […]