Need for Accounting

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 The main object of any business firm to earn profits But some of the business concerns are rendering services to the public. The business Transactions are numerous such as purchases,sales, expenses, incomes, cash transactions Etc, All these transactions are remembering in the future is very difficult. So that, we have to record the transactions in a set of books is known as Accounting.

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