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    The history of accounting or accountancy can be traced to ancient civilizations. The early development of accounting dates to ancient Mesopotamia, and...
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  • Accounting History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the history of accounting. The journal's editors-in-chief are Carolyn Fowler...
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    several fields including financial accounting, management accounting, tax accounting and cost accounting. Financial accounting focuses on the reporting of an...
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    Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP or U.S. GAAP or GAAP (USA), pronounced like "gap") is the accounting standard adopted by the U.S. Securities...
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    In management accounting or managerial accounting, managers use accounting information in decision-making and to assist in the management and performance...
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    guidance on accounting for the amortization of intangible assets is contained in IAS 38. Under United States generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)...
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  • double-entry accounting, is a method of bookkeeping that relies on a two-sided accounting entry to maintain financial information. Every entry to an account requires...
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    Financial accounting is a branch of accounting concerned with the summary, analysis and reporting of financial transactions related to a business. This...
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  • following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to accounting: Accounting – measurement, statement or provision of assurance about financial...
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    Creative accounting is a euphemism referring to accounting practices that may follow the letter of the rules of standard accounting practices, but deviate...
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    whether to debit or credit a specific account, we use either the accounting equation approach (based on five accounting rules), or the classical approach...
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  • Accounting History Review is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of accounting published by Routledge. It was formerly known...
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    between 1888 and 1889. He died in 1898. Parker, R. H. (1984). Papers on Accounting History. Garland Publishing. p. 140. ISBN 9781317964018. Retrieved 31 October...
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    Hollywood accounting (also known as Hollywood bookkeeping) is the opaque or creative set of accounting methods used by the film, video, television and...
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    Cost accounting provides the detailed cost information that management needs to control current operations and plan for the future. Cost accounting information...
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    significant judgments and accounting estimates are involved. Turnover in accounting personnel or other deficiencies in accounting and information processes...
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    FIFO and LIFO accounting are methods used in managing inventory and financial matters involving the amount of money a company has to have tied up within...
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    the choice between two accounting methods to record a business combination: purchase accounting or pooling-of-interests accounting. Pooling-of-interests...
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    A basis of accounting is the time various financial transactions are recorded. The cash basis (EU VAT vocabulary cash accounting) and the accrual basis...
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    Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Price died in 1887. Accounting for Success: a History of Price Waterhouse in America 1890-1990. Harvard Business...
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    the UK during the First World War." Accounting History Review 24#2–3 (2014): 83–101. A. J. P. Taylor, English History 1914–1945 (1965) pp 40 – 41. M. J...
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    held in a transaction account are regarded as liquid funds. In accounting terms, they are considered as cash. Transaction accounts are known by a variety...
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  • The Academy of Accounting Historians, established in 1973, is a non-profit organization of scholars of accounting history. The organization was formed...
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    Accounting Standard (abbreviated as Ind_AS) is the accounting standard adopted by companies in India and issued under the supervision of Accounting Standards...
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    business entity may initiate or complete over an accounting period. Accounting Comparison of accounting software POS system: records sales and updates stock...
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    Forensic accounting, forensic accountancy or financial forensics is the specialty practice area of accounting that investigates whether firms engage in...
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    uncollectible accounts. A reserve can appear in any part of shareholders' equity except for contributed or basic share capital. In nonprofit accounting, an "operating...
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    management accounting the accounting period varies widely and is determined by management. Monthly accounting periods are common. In financial accounting the...
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    holds the position of Professor of Accounting at the University of Sheffield, and is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex. Sikka...
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  • supersedes Google Search history and Google Web History — enables users to see and delete data tracked by Google through the Google account. The tool shows which...
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