Accounting And Financial Accounting
Friday, February 20th, 2009Accountancy relates to a providing system of qualitative information about finances. It can refer to the maintenance of a chronological list of relative flows and the appropriations of the businesses, report/ratio of the transactions and to result balance. The methodology of accountancy or the plan of accountant is part of a register of the accounts. The methodology of accountancy implies measurement, the revelation or the supply of insurance about the financial information. This comes from the assistance for the directors, the investors, the tax authorities and such others which make the crucial decisions for the attribution of resource.
Financial accounting is a branch of accounting and is often considered to be synonymous with accounting. It involves processes by which financial information related to any business is accounted (i.e. recorded, classified and summarized), interpreted and communicated. This relates to the preparation of financial statements for decision makers – stockholders, suppliers, banks, government agencies, owners etc.
In financial accounting the main concerns taken up are the accounting equation (i.e. assets equal sum of liabilities and owners’ equity) and the financial statements. The financial statements are prepared based on the trial balance. This trial balance is again prepared using the double entry accounting system. The figures appearing in the trial balance are rearranged and a profit and loss statement and a balance sheet are prepared.
The format of all these accounts is to be determined in conformance with certain standards. The financial statements obtained will show the income and expenditure for the company and present a summary of the assets, liabilities and shareholders’ or owners’ equity in the company on the date of preparation of the accounts.