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  2. 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]

  3. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (United States)

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    All existing accounting standards documents are superseded as described in FASB Statement No. 168, The FASB Accounting Standards Codification and the Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. All other accounting literature not included in the Codification is non-authoritative.

  4. Financial statement - Wikipedia

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    Different countries have developed their own accounting principles over time, making international comparisons of companies difficult. To ensure uniformity and comparability between financial statements prepared by different companies, a set of guidelines and rules are used.

  5. Financial accounting - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. List of business and finance abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    CSI – Corporate Social Investment; CSO – Chief Security Officer; CSR – Corporate social responsibility; CRM – Customer Relationship Management; CVP – Cost Volume Profit; CTA – Call to action; CTO – Chief Technology Officer; CX – Customer Experience; CXO – Any chief officer(s), x being a placeholder. C2B – Consumer-to ...

  7. Outline of accounting - Wikipedia

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    Sarbanes–Oxley Act – The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002, also known as the 'Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act' and 'Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act' and more commonly called Sarbanes–Oxley, Sarbox or SOX, is a United States federal law that set new or enhanced standards for all U.S.

  8. Business - Wikipedia

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    Accounting, which has been called the "language of business", [20] measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of users, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators. [21] Practitioners of accounting are known as accountants. The terms "accounting" and "financial ...

  9. Capital budgeting - Wikipedia

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    Capital budgeting in corporate finance, corporate planning and accounting is an area of capital management that concerns the planning process used to determine whether an organization's long term capital investments such as new machinery, replacement of machinery, new plants, new products, and research development projects are worth the funding of cash through the firm's capitalization ...