Accounting

Learn about the consequences and how-tos of capital gains tax.

Financial numbers are the heartbeat of a company. This is why Accounting and Bookkeeping are the key functions in any type of business.

When analyzing transactions, they normally affect one or more types of accounts used in the accounting system. This article explains these six types of categories of accounts with the DEALER acronym, Drawings, Expenses, Assets, Liabilities, Equity, and Revenue, with the use of examples.

This article summarizes the definition of Accounting based on the authors years of experience in the field both professionally and academically. The importance of Accounting is also explained as well as the various categories or types of Accounting such as Managerial Accounting, Bookkeeping etc.

We’ve highlighted four great money saving tips from transport, from those that cost nothing to options that require you to speculate to accumulate.

This article will illustrate about how the degree and knowledge in accounting will help you to build your career.

T&T's Finance Minister Colm Imbert has announced anyone earning 7 thousand dollars a month or less will now be exempt from income tax.

In the preparation of financial statements, adjustments are made to ensure that actual profits are disclosed at the end of the period. Among these adjustments include prepayments, accruals, provisions for depreciation, bad and doubtful debts. Today, I would like to focus on the depreciation aspect.

Literally everything is being affected by technology. The field of accounting is no exception. Accounting is undeniably changing in a fast-paced technological environment, largely due to the emergence of intelligence technology, including machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Accountants are governed by certain rules and customs in the preparation of financial statements, penned by various professional bodies in the field such as the IASB called Accounting Concepts And Conventions.

Thanks to the proliferation of technology throughout all industries, people are able to build their own small businesses. For accountants, this fact holds especially true.

The convergence between U.S. GAAP and IFRS will put an end to the LIFO method of inventory valuation. The result will be tax implications for many companies, but also a more accurate representation of costs.

The CPA (Certified Public Accountants) Board Exam is one of the toughest government examinations in the Philippines. It takes five years of rigorous studies and a six month period of review at the CPA Review Centers.

The accounting equation is the foundation for the double entry accounting system where debits must equal credits. Before we look at accounting entries we need to understand the accounting equation.

The Commission on Audit (COA) under the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines, prescribed the adoption of the New Accounting System for the Barangay that was implemented beginning the fiscal period, 1987.

After reading this article you will have a clear idea of what debit and credit are.

Analysis and interpretation of financial statements are an attempt to determine the significance and meaning of the financial statement data. so that a forecast can be made of the prospects for future earnings ability to pay interest, debt...

A fiscal year doesn't simply start on January 1st and end on December 31st. With business and government, the fiscal year is much more complicated than that. This article covers how.

Audits are of two types namely optional or private audits and statutory or compulsory audits. Basis for this classification is legal requirements with regard to conduction of audit.

Auditing is systematic examination of books and records of an organisation to confirm whether the prepared financial statements are giving true and fair view or not. Systematic investigation of books and records to fulfill a specific purpose is called investigation.

Merits of Continuous Audit and Demerits of Continuous Audit. Audits can be classified into two groups namely; periodical audit and continuous audit.

The liabilities of auditor can be classified as liability under optional audits and liability under statutory audits.

Preliminary steps before commencing a Company Audit; Verification of Appointment, Verification of Memorandum, Verification of Articles, Verification of Prospectus, etc.

Passing the CPA Board Exam is difficult. Making it to top 10 is exhilarating, especially if you come from a small public college south of Manila - DFCAMCLP, a project by incumbent Mayor Nene Aguilar.

The three main types of business activities are financing, investing and operating. These three types of activities all involve the flow of money, however what the money is for will be the determinate of which category it belongs in. It is...

The shift to the New Government System was made in response to conformity with the International Accounting Standard, computerization, generation of financial statements and for agency monitoring.

Great budgeting tips and a free accounting template.

In business, there are hundreds and thousands of transactions are taking place in a day. It becomes practically impossible to remember all those transactions. Unless you record them properly, it will be difficult for you to determine the source of income and expenditure.

Also known as the consistency concept, Consistency of Presentation is one of four fundamental assumptions of IAS 1 – along with going concern, fair presentation and accruals.

The goal of how to pass a CPA exam the first time is one to help reduce costs, stress, and time for those seeking careers as certified public accountants. Check out these tips and strategies to help that first test become your last one.

The term "Costing" and "Cost Accounting" are used interchangeably. However, Costing refers to the technique and process of ascertaining costs. There are specified rules and principles used to determine the cost of products and services.

Cost Accounting is not an exact science like other branches of accounting but is an art which has developed through theories and accounting practices based on common sense and reasoning. These practices are changing with time.

As per companies Act, 1956 there no prescribed performa for the preparation of Profit and Loss Account.  But the information and particulars are to be present in the Profit and Loss Account are laid down in Schedule VI Part II of the Act.  Various...

1. RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT Introduction: Members of association are required to observe proper standards of professional conduct and refrain from misconduct. Overseas members may follow the local ethics where the profession is controlled...

The auditor has to check the entries with its supporting documents to determine the accuracy and authenticity of the entries passed by verifying the vouchers, bills, and other supporting documents. This process of checking the evidence of the entries is called vouching.

To determine and judge the reliability of the financial statement and the supporting accounting records of a particular financial period is the main purpose of the audit.

The advantages of Auditing are explained here. Auditing is compulsory for all the organizations registered under the company's act must be audited. is compulsory for all the organizations registered under the company's act must be audited.

The word  'Audit' is originated from the Latin word 'audire' which means 'to hear'.  In the earlier days, whenever there is suspected fraud in a business organization, the owner of the business would appoint a person to check the accounts.

The objectives of an audit may broadly be classified as Primary Objectives and Secondary objectives. The main purpose of the audit is to judge the reliability of the financial statements and the supporting accounting records.

This hub enumerates the reasons why the writer decided to become an accountant.

Characteristics of Accounting Information System. Accounting information must possess the characteristic of reliability, relevance, understand-ability and comparability. Accounting Articles