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  2. History of accounting - Wikipedia

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    Accounting records dating back more than 7,000 years have been found in Mesopotamia, [11] and documents from ancient Mesopotamia show lists of expenditures, and goods received and traded. [1] The development of accounting, along with that of money and numbers, may be related to the taxation and trading activities of temples :

  3. 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]

  4. Category:Accounting terminology - Wikipedia

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  5. Basis of accounting - Wikipedia

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    In accounting, a basis of accounting is a method used to define, recognise, and report financial transactions. [1] The two primary bases of accounting are the cash basis of accounting, or cash accounting, method and the accrual accounting method. A third method, the modified cash basis, combines elements of both accrual and cash accounting.

  6. Asunción - Wikipedia

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    Asunción (English: / ɑː ˌ s uː n s i ˈ oʊ n, ˌ ɑː s uː n ˈ s j oʊ n /, [3] [4] [5] Spanish:) is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay.The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, almost at the confluence of this river with the Pilcomayo River.

  7. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants - Wikipedia

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    AICPA and its predecessors date back to 1887, when the American Association of Public Accountants (AAPA) was formed. [4] [5] The Association went through several name changes over the years: the Institute of Public Accountants (1916), the American Institute of Accountants (1917), and the American Society of Public Accountants (1921), which merged into the American Institute of Accountants in ...

  8. 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.

  9. History of money - Wikipedia

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    Accounting records – in the monetary system sense of the term accounting – dating back more than 7,000 years have been found in Mesopotamia, [7] and documents from ancient Mesopotamia show lists of expenditures, and goods received and traded and the history of accounting evidences that money of account pre-dates the use of coinage by ...