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2. Debits and credits - Wikipedia

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   To determine whether to debit or credit a specific account, we use either the accounting equation approach (based on five accounting rules), [13] or the classical approach (based on three rules). [14] Whether a debit increases or decreases an account's net balance depends on what kind of account it is. The basic principle is that the account ...

3. Bookkeeping - Wikipedia

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   Transactions include purchases, sales, receipts and payments by an individual person, organization or corporation. There are several standard methods of bookkeeping, including the single-entry and double-entry bookkeeping systems. While these may be viewed as "real" bookkeeping, any process for recording financial transactions is a bookkeeping ...

4. Account (bookkeeping) - Wikipedia

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   In bookkeeping, an account refers to assets, liabilities, income, expenses, and equity, as represented by individual ledger pages, to which changes in value are chronologically recorded with debit and credit entries.

5. Accounting - Wikipedia

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   Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations. [1] [2] Accounting measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of stakeholders, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators. [3]

6. Single-entry bookkeeping - Wikipedia

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   Single-entry bookkeeping, also known as, single-entry accounting, is a method of bookkeeping that relies on a one-sided accounting entry to maintain financial information. . The primary bookkeeping record in single-entry bookkeeping is the cash book, which is similar to a checking account register (in UK: cheque account, current account), except all entries are allocated among several ...

7. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (United States)

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   Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) [a] is the accounting standard adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), [1] and is the default accounting standard used by companies based in the United States.