Bookkeeping Career Linda Schneider Baker College Introduction Bookkeepers keep a record of the transactions of the company like accounts receivable‚ accounts payable‚ calculation of profit and loss‚ etc. Bookkeepers maintain a record in the books of accounts by posting detailed entries in the journal and general ledger regularly. They maintain complete sets of financial records‚ keep track of accounts‚ and verify the accuracy of procedures used for recording financial data either manually or
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1. WHAT IS BOOKKEEPING? * Bookkeeping is the recording‚ on a day-today basis of the financial transactions and information pertaining to a business. It is concerned with ensuring that records of those individual financial transactions are accurate‚ up-to-date and comprehensive. Accuracy is therefore vital to the process. * Bookkeeping provides the information from which accounts are prepared but is a distinct process‚ preliminary to accounting. 2. WHY IS BOOKKEEPING IMPORTANT?
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| ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES | | | Meaning of Accounting Principle | | Principle means a general law or rule adopted or professed as a guide to action ‘a settled ground or a basis of conduct or practice’. The word ‘Principle’ when applied in accounting may have different meanings in different contexts. It is not used in the sense of a fundamental accounting truth – it connotes a guiding influence or an accepted rule of action or conduct. Accounting principles have been defined as the body
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CHAPTER 2 DOUBLE ENTRY SYSTEM AND BALANCING OFF THE LEDGER OBJECTIVES. At the end of the chapter reader is expected to understand - what a double entry system is - peculiarity of double entry system in accounting. - how a transaction can be posted in order to adhere with double entry system. - what make up a ledger - how ledger can be balanced up. INTRODUTION To make a relevant disclosure of transaction in accounting sense‚ it is necessary to open up all the items affected by a transaction
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COMMON ACCOUNTING SYSTEM INTRODUCTION 1. Most of the State Cooperative Societies Acts have provisions regarding preparation and submission of financial statements such as Balance Sheet‚ Profit and Loss Account and Trading Account of PACS. However‚ the formats for financial statements of PACS have not been prescribed in many States. The existing formats have evolved over a period of time on the basis of instructions from the RCS‚ Director of Audit‚ etc.‚ There is no uniformity and transparency in
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1. An Accounting Information System (AIS) * collects and processes transaction data and disseminates the information to interested parties. * Helps management answer such questions as: * How much and what kind of debt is outstanding? * Were sales higher this period than last? * What assets do we have? * What were our cash inflows and outflows? * Did we make a profit last period? Basic Terminology (see Textbook for definitions) * Event * Transaction * Account
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Bookkeeping Guidelines A. General Guidelines 1. The statement of cash receipts and disbursement is to be prepared monthly 2. Receipts should be issued or all cash received. These receipts are to be recorded in the cash receipts journal. 3. Vouchers should be prepared for every disbursement. All vouchers should be numbered consecutively and used chronologically. Vouchers should be recorded in the cash disbursements journal and supported by official receipts. 4. The basis of the statement of cash
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question that I didn’t know the answer to. Accounting has a lot of history behind its profession. Bookkeeping and Accounting records have been used since early history until now. They were discovered in Babylonia (present day Iraq) date to 3600 B.C. The Egyptians‚ Greeks‚ and Romans each kept their own bookkeeping and accounting records. Modern accounting became the technique of double-entry bookkeeping and developed in the 15th-16th century by Luca Pacioli (Italian Mathematician). When the government
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instinct part of a business‚ owners and other interested parties want to know whether they are making a profit or not through the use of either Manual accounting System or the Computerized System. Historically‚ accounting was a manual process where in the well known father of Accounting‚ Luca Pacioli‚ developed the double entry bookkeeping system in 1494 using debits and credits to manage company. The manual process uses paper ledgers and journals where accountants records financial information. Information’s
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evaluate the effectiveness of the controls in the double entry system of accounting in ensuring the accuracy of the accounts. As well as examining the controls‚ your evaluation should consider errors that do not affect the balancing of the trial balance. Double entry accounting system was invented in 15th century and still being in use until today‚ this is quite an interesting fact; however it indicates that there is something about the system‚ thus making it so effective and irreplaceable. To evaluate
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