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What is a ledger account in accounting?◄Click here

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A ledger account is a separate accounting record in the general ledger that collects and stores the debit and credit details...

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July 16, 2011 5:15 AM
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What is the IASB in accounting?◄Click here

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IASB stands for the International Accounting Standards Board. If you read that again slowly, then you'll know exactly what the organization does.

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July 13, 2011 6:18 PM
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How is the accounting equation formed? ◄Click here

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Understanding how the accounting equation is formed will assist you in understanding the fundamental concepts underpinning accounting.

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3 Great Small Business Accounting Tutorial Sites◄Click here

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This is a free site designed to help people without an accounting background easily understand accounting concepts. They cover the basics of accounting such as terms and debits and credits as well as more complex topics ...

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What is the 'accounting entity' assumption? ◄Click here

What is the 'accounting entity' assumption? ◄Click here | Basic Accounting Concepts | Scoop.it

This answer will help you understand the principle of keeping the personal financial affairs of the business owners separate from the businesses they operate. Application of the accounting entity assumption helps produce meaningful and relevant financial reports for decision makers.

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Eric P. Bloom: Expenses versus capitalization ◄Click here

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Eric P. Bloom: Expenses versus capitalizationSuburban Life PublicationsIf you don't, as a manager you should learn a little about accounting.

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Why is double-entry bookkeeping so significant?◄Click here

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Double-entry bookkeeping played a significant part in the growth of commerce especially as businesses grew in size and...

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What is the double-entry bookkeeping system? ◄Click here

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The double-entry bookkeeping system is a set of rules for recording an entity's financial transactions so that the balance...

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Core Small Business Skills – Financial Management◄Click here

Developing strong financial management skills is one of the core skills essential for the management and growth of any small business and entrepreneurs should learn to master these skills to ensure their ongoing viability and success.

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What is accounting? ◄Click here

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Accounting is a system of identifying, measuring, recording, and reporting to interested parties, the quantitative financial...

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June 11, 2011 5:21 AM
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What is the difference between a bookkeeper and an accountant? ◄Click here

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Bookkeeping is a task oriented function that routinely and systematically records the organisation’s day-to-day financial...

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Accounting methods and accounting concepts◄Click here

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For example, the cost of “oil-and fat-free” The machine is so small that its breaking per unit of production is meaningless and amount to a waste of time and work of the accounting staff. Accounting Concepts ...

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Where did accounting start? ◄Click here

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The accounting system we use today started with the merchants of Venice in Italy over 500 years ago.

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July 16, 2011 5:19 AM
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New iPad 2 Accounting Education App Offers Visual Learning◄Click here

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The Accounting Whiz Kid (http://www.accountingwhizkid.com) has just launched its first visual learning app for accounting students just in time for the release of the Apple iPad2. Accounting is often called the ?

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What are the Objectives of Financial Reporting?◄Click here

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Without objectives in place, it is hard to come up with quality accounting standards. In fact, it's hard to come up with any standard at all if you have.

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Doing Your Own Accounting? How Audio Books Can Help◄Click here

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Although picking out audio books to help augment one's understanding of various subjects may seem simple, when it comes to learning more about basic or intermediate accounting axioms, you may want to consider your level ...

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Financial Accounting Standards (FASB) Overview◄Click here

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What is the FASB? FASB stands for the Financial Accounting Standards Board. It is currently the organization within the United States that sets all the.

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Accounts Receivable Turnover - Learn How To Calculate This Ratio◄Click here

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Accounts receivable turnover, formula and explanation included, understand the meaning and why this ratio is important, also find a short example (Jun 20, Accounts Receivable Turnover - Learn How To Calculate This Ratio: Accounts receivable...

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What are 'Debits and Credits' in the bookkeeping system?◄Click here

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The answer to this question will help you understand the meaning for the terms "Debit and Credit" as it is used in the bookkeeping system. These terms are confusing. The terms "Debit and Credit" have many different meanings in our society. Bookkeeping has its own special meaning for the terms "Debit and Credit". To make it clear in writing this article, we use "(Dr.-Debit) and (Cr.-Credit)" to identify that we are using the meaning as used in the bookkeeping system.

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WHAT ARE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS USED FOR AND HOW?◄Click here

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The question of what financial statements are used for is an important one as it raises awareness as to the importance accounting as a whole. Many debates went on in the past and are in fact still going on now amongst academics ...

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Accounting Online Course ◄Click here

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Discover accounting with the world's largest free online accounting course. Learn accounting principles, debits and credits, financial ratios, improving profits … Basic Accounting Concepts | AccountingCoach.com.

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RT @SCOREMentors: Improve your business financial statement records and bookkeeping contracts!

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What are the accounting concepts and conventions? ◄Click here

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This answer will help you understand the concepts, conventions, assumptions and principles that underpin the accounting system. Accounting concepts and conventions guide accountants when reporting on the financial performance and position of a business.

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Accounting Concepts and its Main importance◄Click here

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To know more about Accounting Concepts are very necessary to learn because without this you can not understand the fundamentals of accounting. There are many concepts which an accountant uses in their accounting working.

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What is the purpose of accounting?◄Click here

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The purpose of accounting is to provide financial information about economic entities in the form of financial statements and...

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