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The FASB Accounting Standards Codification is the source of authoritative GAAP recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal securities laws are also sources of authoritative GAAP for SEC registrants. In addition to the SEC's rules and interpretive ...
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.
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.
The accounting equation is a statement of equality between the debits and the credits. The rules of debit and credit depend on the nature of an account. For the purpose of the accounting equation approach, all the accounts are classified into the following five types: assets, capital, liabilities, revenues/incomes, or expenses/losses.
Compliance with accounting standards issued by ICAI has become a statutory requirement with the notification of Companies (Accounting Standards) Rules, 2006 by the Government of India. [54] Before the constitution of the National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards ( NACAS ), the institute was the sole accounting standard setter in India.
National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) is the auditing and accounting supervision authority of India. The authority oversees the auditing profession and the Indian Accounting Standards under the Companies Act 2013. [1] It was formed in October 2018. The chairperson since March 2022 is Ajay Bhushan Pandey. [2]
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 ...
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]