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Introduction to Accounting

ICSE · Class 11 · Accountancy

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Book-Keeping, Accounting, and Accountancy – Meanings and Definitions

  • Accountancy is the broadest term — it covers all principles and practices related to systematic recording, summarising, and interpreting financial information.
  • Accounting is wider than book-keeping but narrower than accountancy — it includes recording, classifying, summarising, analysing, interpreting, and communicating financial transactions.
  • Book-keeping is the most basic level — it involves only identifying, measuring, recording, and classifying financial transactions in journals and ledgers.
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Characteristics and Functions of Accounting

  • Accounting records ONLY financial transactions — events that can be expressed in monetary terms.
  • All transactions must be recorded in terms of money (monetary measurement).
  • The accounting process follows this sequence: Recording → Classifying → Summarising → Interpreting → Communicating.
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Differences: Book-Keeping vs Accounting vs Accountancy

  • Book-keeping is the PRIMARY stage; Accounting is the SECONDARY stage.
  • Book-keeping provides preliminary records; Accounting processes secondary records.
  • Book-keeping is routine/clerical; Accounting is analytical in nature.
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Users of Accounting Information

  • Users are divided into two groups: INTERNAL USERS and EXTERNAL USERS.
  • Internal Users: Owners/Proprietors, Management, Employees.
  • External Users are further divided into: (A) Those with DIRECT interest and (B) Those with INDIRECT interest.

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Bookkeeping is the art of recordingAccounting is a broader fieldAccountancy is the entire bodyRecording means systematically entering all financialClassification is the systematic organization

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