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Every year, your company will generate financial statements that people outside of your
company, people like investors, lenders, government agencies, auditors, potential
buyers, etc., can use to learn more about your company’s financial health. Preparing the
company’s annual financial statements this way is called financial accounting.
Managerial accounting
1. The statements produced by managerial accounting are for internal use only.
2. They’re generated much more frequently—often on a quarterly or monthly basis.
If your business ever grows to the point where you need to hire an accountant full-time,
most of their time will be taken up by managerial accounting. You’ll be paying them to
produce reports that provide regular updates on the company’s financial health and help
you interpret those reports.
Tax accounting
When your accountant provides you with recommendations for how to get the most out
of your tax return, that’s tax accounting.Tax accounting is regulated by the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS), and the IRS legally requires that your tax accounting adhere to
the Internal Revenue Code (IRC).Tax accounting is all about making sure that you don’t
pay more tax than you are legally required to by the IRS.
Cost accounting
Cost accounting involves analyzing all of the costs associated with producing an output
(whether it be a physical product or service) in order to make better decisions about
pricing, spending and inventory.
Cost accounting feeds into managerial accounting, because managers use cost
accounting reports to make better business decisions, and it also feeds into financial
accounting, because costing data is often required when compiling a balance sheet.
Credit accounting
Credit accounting involves analyzing all of a company’s unpaid bills and liabilities and
making sure that a company’s cash isn’t constantly tied up in paying for them. Credit
accounting can be one of the most difficult kinds of accounting to do well, because it
usually involves telling someone something they don’t want to hear (like your accountant
telling you that you should be borrowing less.)