Friday, September 30, 2016

Basics Of Accounting

  • Accounting means the systamatic way of recording ,reporting and analysis of financial transactions of a business.
  • Accounting plays a very important role in each and every organisation.Because,managers has to know the gains and losses of a company.


Types of Accounting :

  • Accounting classified into 3 types :
    1. Real Accounts.
    2. Personal Accounts.
    3. Nominal Accounts.

Real Accounts :

  • The accounts which are related to the assets(tangiable / non-tangiable) called as 'Real accounts'.
  • Tangiable :Tangiable means assets which are physically exists.
  • Examples : Buildings,Vehicles,Machines,etc.
  • Non-tangiable : The assets which are not physically not exists.But they have value.
  • Examples : Goodwill, Trademarks,patents,etc.
Debit :What Comes In.
Credit :What goes Out.

Personal Accounts :

  • The accounts which releated to the persons or organisations called as 'Personal accounts'.
  • Natural Accounts : The accounts which are related to the persons(living things) called as natural accounts.
  • Examples :Humans,pet animals,etc.
  • Artificial Accounts : The things which are related to the organisations,lands,etc called as artificial accounts.
  • Examples :Pvt ltd companies,LLc's,LLP's,etc.
Debit:Receiver. 
Credit:Giver.

Nominal Accounts:

  • The accounts which are related to the money(incomes/gains and expenses/losses) called 'Nominal Accounts'.
  • Income / Gain :The amount which comes into the organisastion is called income.
  • Expenses / losses :The amount which goes out from the organisation is called expenses.

Debit :Expenses / losses.
Credit :income / gains.