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“Accounting is the art of recording, classifying and summarising in a signified manner
and in term of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least of financial
character, and interpreting the result thereof.”
• Remuneration
• Employment
• Retirement benefits
• Activities
• Taxation policy
• National income
• Continuity
• Stability
• Involvement
• Safety
• Decision
• Determination
• Ability
• Past performance
• Decision
• Ability
• Past performance
• Maintain
If the transactions are more,
human brain would not be able to
remind all the transactions. In
order to remind all the entries a
systematic record is maintained.
For a particular accounting period
an income statement (profit and
loss account) is prepared based on
the systematic record.
To know what the business owes
to other and what it owns. A
systematic position of assets and
liabilities is answered by position
statement.
It communicate information to the
internal as well as external users.
Information is required at all
levels of the management.
Recording
Classifying
Summarising
Interpretation
Information
to users
Economic
events
measured in
financial terms

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introduction to accounting

  • 1.
  • 2. “Accounting is the art of recording, classifying and summarising in a signified manner and in term of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least of financial character, and interpreting the result thereof.”
  • 3. • Remuneration • Employment • Retirement benefits • Activities • Taxation policy • National income • Continuity • Stability • Involvement • Safety • Decision • Determination • Ability • Past performance • Decision • Ability • Past performance • Maintain
  • 4.
  • 5. If the transactions are more, human brain would not be able to remind all the transactions. In order to remind all the entries a systematic record is maintained.
  • 6. For a particular accounting period an income statement (profit and loss account) is prepared based on the systematic record.
  • 7. To know what the business owes to other and what it owns. A systematic position of assets and liabilities is answered by position statement.
  • 8. It communicate information to the internal as well as external users. Information is required at all levels of the management.