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A suspense account is an account used temporarily to carry doubtful entries and discrepancies pending their analysis and permanent classification. It can be a repository for monetary transactions (cash receipts, cash disbursements and journal entries) entered with invalid account numbers.
Momentum accounting and triple-entry book keeping is an alternative accountancy system developed by Japanese academic Yuji Ijiri and the subject of his 1989 monograph. [1] It is proposed as an alternative to double-entry bookkeeping, which is the standard method used in the worldwide financial accounting system.
In bookkeeping, a general ledger is a bookkeeping ledger in which accounting data are posted from journals and aggregated from subledgers, such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash management, fixed assets, purchasing and projects. [1] A general ledger may be maintained on paper, on a computer, or in the cloud. [2]
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Forensic accounting, forensic accountancy or financial forensics is the specialty practice area of accounting that investigates whether firms engage in financial reporting misconduct, [1] or financial misconduct within the workplace by employees, officers or directors of the organization. [2]
Creative accounting is a euphemism referring to accounting practices that may follow the letter of the rules of standard accounting practices, but deviate from the spirit of those rules with questionable accounting ethics—specifically distorting results in favor of the "preparers", or the firm that hired the accountant. [1]
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Record to report or R2R is a Finance and Accounting (F&A) management process which involves collecting, processing and delivering relevant, timely and accurate information used for providing strategic, financial and operational feedback to understand how a business is performing. [1]