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A chart of accounts provides a listing of all financial accounts used by particular business, organization, or government agency. The system of recording, verifying, and reporting such information is called accounting. Practitioners of accounting are called accountants. [1]
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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) is the standard framework of guidelines for financial accounting used in any given jurisdiction. It includes the standards, conventions and rules that accountants follow in recording and summarizing and in the preparation of financial statements.
Firms often maintain at least three sets of accounting books during the normal course of business. Firms in the United States usually maintain a GAAP-compliant set of financial books which are reported to investors and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC) in the event the firm is publicly traded; an internal (non-GAAP) set of managerial books; and a set of fiscal (tax ...
Financial close management [1] (FCM) [2] is a recurring process in management accounting by which accounting teams verify and adjust account balances at the end of a designated period [3] in order to produce financial reports representative of the company's true financial position [4] to inform stakeholders such as management, investors, lenders, and regulatory agencies.
The most basic definition of a plug may be "a placeholder number which is used in an overall cost or budget estimate until a more accurate figure can be obtained". [2] Plugging has been described as "the use of false numbers in financial ledgers that forces balances, and effectively masks accounting errors and control deficiencies". [3]
The concept of "two sets of books" refers to the practice of keeping two sets of accounting ledgers ("books").In colloquial terms, this practice may refer to fraudulent behavior, i.e. attempting to hide or disguise financial transactions from outsiders by having a falsified set of records for official use and another for internal recordkeeping.