The whole point of accounting is to present a precise financial picture of your business operations. By the accepted standards of the industry, financial accounting consists of five basic elements.

Accounting provides a means for recording and conveying economic data for compliance and decision-making purposes according to AccountingVerse. The three components of accounting systems are ...

It may seem belated, but the Governmental Accounting Standards Board has just recently gotten around to defining such fundamental accounting concepts as "asset" and "liability."It has also defined a ...