INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING.
ACCOUNTING:- Accounting is an information system that identifies, measures, records and communicate the economic events of an organization to interested users for decision making. CHARACTERSTICS OF ACCOUNTING :-.
6.Analysis and Interpretation:- Evaluating financial data to determine strength, weakness and performance. 7.Communicating:-It involves communicating, interpreting and presenting complex financial data into actionable insights for stakeholders ,including clients,management and investors..
OBJECTIVES OF ACCOUNTING:- 1.To maintain proper records of business transactions according to specified rules which helps them to minimize the chance of omission and fraud. 2.To ascertain the financial position of business by means of financial statement i.e. Balance sheet. 3. To ascertain the progress of business from year to year and to detect errors and frauds. 4.To provide accounting information to various interested parties like owners, creditors, banks, employees etc. who perform in depth and analysis as per the requirement of the stakeholders..
ADVANTAGES OF ACCOUNTING:-. 1.Accounting provides permanent records for all business transactions and provides reliable information to various parties. 2.Accounting provides the profit and loss of a business for a given period of time. 3.Accounting provides the facility of comparative study of the various aspects of Business like profit sales, purchases etc .With that of previous years and helps businessmen to make decisions. 4.Accounting forms a basis in the process of performance evaluation to improve the performance of employees, divisions, activities etc. 5.Accounting records act as an approved evidence in legal matters . ..
LIMITATIONS OF ACCOUNTING:- 1.It considers only monetary transactions. Non monetary aspects like quality , honesty, skills are ignored in accounting. 2.It considers only historical transactions and the figures give in the financial statement do not consider price level changes. 3. It is affected by window dressing which means manipulation of accounts so that financial statements describe a more favourable position than the actual position. 4.Financial accounts are unsuitable for forecasting because they are not only records of past events. 5. It is not free from personal bias which affects its credibility..
BOOK-KEEPING BASE OF ACCOUNTING It is an art of recording the transactions in the books of accounts. only those transactions which bear a monetary value are recorded. It is the first step of accounting. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO ARE AS FOLLOWS:-.
QUALITATIVE CHARACTERSTICS OF ACCOUNTINGINFORMATION:-.
SUB FILEDS OF ACCOUNTING:-. Financial Accounting.
Understandibility:- It should be presented in such a manner that they are understood easily by their users such as employees, investors etc..