1) Innumerable monetary transactions occur in a business organisation. Accounting keeps a systematic record of such transactions. 2) When a business maintains a complete record of its transactions, it has complete information about expenses, losses, incomes and gains, Hence, It can easily ascertain the net profit or net loss for any period. 3) Accounting records will help a concern to know not only it's net profit or net loss but also the exact reasons that has contributed to the profit or loss. 4) when Accounting records are available over a period of time. It can compare the results of its business from year to year and study the progress of business over a period of time. 5) When a business house 🏡 keeps Accounting records, it has a complete record of what it owns, what it owes and what it has invested. So it can know the true and correct financial position of its business at anytime. 6) Accounting records enable a business concern ...
Persons interested in Accounting Disclosures:- Accounting is of primary importance to the proprietors and the managers. However, others person's such as creditors, prospective investors, employees, etc. are also interested in the Accounting information. 1) Proprietors:- A business is done with the objective of making profit. It's profitability and financial soundness are, therefore, matters of prime importance to the proprietors who have invested their money 💰 in the business. 2) Managers:- In a sole proprietary business, usually the proprietor is the manager. In case of a partnership business either some or all the partners participate in the management of the business. They therefore, act both as managers as well as owners. In case of joint stock companies, the relationship between ownership and management becomes all the more remote . In most cases the shareholders act merely as rentiers of capital and the management of the company passes in to the hands of profe...
Journal:- Journal means a day book 📚 or daily record. It is the book where in all the transactions are first recorded in chronological order. It is a book of prime, original or first entry, as all business transactions are first recorded in the journal. Form journal the posting are made in the ledger. journal is only subsidiary book 📚 i.e., a book 📚 which is sub-ordinate to the ledger. Which is the principal Book 📚 of accounts? The journal analyses the various transactions into their debits and credits so that they could be easily posted to the ledger accounts. In order words journal is helpful in the preparation of Accounts in the ledger. The process of recording transactions in journal is termed as 'journalizing'. The journal is rule of as follows:- Journal Column (1) : Date ...
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