What do you mean by accounting?

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    Surbhi Sahu | Guide-Level 13

    3 weeks ago

    Accounting is the process of recording financial transactions pertaining to a business. The accounting process includes summarizing, analyzing, and reporting these transactions to oversight agencies, regulators, and tax collection entities. Luca Pacioli the 'Father of Accounting' Luca Pacioli (c. 1447 – 1517) was the first person to publish detailed material on the double-entry system of accounting. He was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar who also collaborated with his friend Leonardo da Vinci (who also took maths lessons from Pacioli).  Accounting involves recording and managing a business's daily financi

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    Juhi Bansal Explore your self | Guide-Level 14

    7 years ago
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    Accounting can manage all type of spending expenses and control of it. Basically, accounting means:
    It is a systemic process of identifying, recording, measuring, classifying, verifying, summarizing, interpreting and communicating financial information. It reveals profit or loss for a given period, and the value and nature of a firm's assets, liabilities and owners' equity. and Accounting can be divided into several fields including finance accounting, expenses accounting, external auditing, tax accounting and cost Accounting , external auditing. Accounting information systems are designed to support accounting functions and relat
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