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Financial Accounting – Ledger
Now let us try to understand how a journal works. With the help of journal entries, we book each and…
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Analysis and Treatment of Transactions
Let us go through the nature of transactions and their treatment in our books of accounts. The following accounting entries…
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Financial Accounting – Journal
“The process of recording a transaction in a journal is called journalizing the transactions.” —Meigs and Meigs and Johnson Journal…
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Golden Rules of Accounting
The Problem with Debit Credit Rules The system of debit and credit is right at the foundation of double entry…
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Accounting – Systems
There are two systems of accounting followed – ● Single Entry System ● Double Entry System Single Entry System Single entry system…
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Accounting – Classification of Accounts
It is necessary to know the classification of accounts and their treatment in double entry system of accounts. Broadly, the…
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Conservation or Prudence
It is a policy of playing safe. For future events, profits are not anticipated, but provisions for losses are provided…
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Convention of Materiality
If the disclosure or non-disclosure of an information might influence the decision of the users of financial statements, then that…
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Convention of Disclosure
The Companies Act, 1956, prescribed a format in which financial statements must be prepared. Every company that fall under this…
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Convention of Consistency
To compare the results of different years, it is necessary that accounting rules, principles, conventions and accounting concepts for similar…
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Objective Evidence Concept
According to the Objective Evidence concept, every financial entry should be supported by some objective evidence. Purchase should be supported…
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Accrual Concept
As stated above in the matching concept, the revenue generated in the accounting period is considered and the expenditure related…