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DEFINITION
ASC DEFINITION
– Accounting is a service activity.
• MEASURING (Technical)
• COMMUNICATING (Formal)
IDENTIFYING
• the recognition or non recognition of
business activities as accountable events.
– Accountable events
• quantifiable
• Economic activities
classification of transactions
– Recording
– Classifying
– Summarizing
RECORDING
• the process of systematically maintaining a record
of all economic business transactions after they
have been identified and measured.
• JOURNALIZING
• Journal - Book of original entry
CLASSIFYING
- the sorting or grouping of similar and interrelated
economic transactions into their respective
classes.
– Financial in nature
Managerial Accounting
– is the accumulation and preparation of financial
reports for internal users only
– is needed by management in planning, controlling
and evaluating the entity’s operations.