nominal account

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]