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What Is Accounting? What Is Accounting?
What Is Accounting? What Is Accounting?
What Is Accounting? What Is Accounting?
What is
is Accounting?
Accounting?
(2) organization to
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Who
Who Uses
Uses Accounting
Accounting Data
Data
Internal Users
Management IRS
Human Investors
Resources
There are two broad
groups of users of Labor
financial information: Unions
Finance
internal users and
external users. Creditors
Marketing
SEC
Customers External
Users
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Assets
Assets are property owned by an
individual or business to which money
value can be attached.
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Liabilities
Liabilities mean the amount owed by
the business to outsiders and to the
proprietors.
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Capital
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Accounting Equation
Assets = Liabilities + Capital
Every accounting transaction has an equal affect on
both sides of the equation.
Purchase a Rs.20,000 car for cash.
Increase asset car and decrease asset cash by
Rs.20,000. No net change to assets.
Purchase a Rs.20,000 car on credit.
Increase asset car and increase liabilities by
Rs.20,000.
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