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Accounting or accountancy is the measurement, processing and communication of financial information about economic entities.^[1][2]

Accounting, which has been called the “language of business”,^[4] measures the results of an organization’s economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of users including investors, creditors, management, and regulators.^[5]

Practitioners of accounting are known as accountants. The terms accounting and financial reporting are often used as synonyms.

Accounting can be divided into several fields including financial accounting, management accounting, auditing, and tax accounting.^[6]

Accounting information systems are designed to support accounting functions and related activities. Financial accounting focuses on the reporting of an organization’s financial information, including the preparation of financial statements, to external users of the information, such as investors, regulators and suppliers;^[7] and management accounting focuses on the measurement, analysis and reporting of information for internal use by management.^[1][7]

The recording of financial transactions, so that summaries of the financials may be presented in financial reports, is known as bookkeeping, of which double-entry bookkeeping is the most common system.^[8]

Accounting is facilitated by accounting organizations such as standard-setters, accounting firms and professional bodies. Financial statements are usually audited by accounting firms.

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Accounting is one of the most important aspects of business, after all, we are in business to generate a profit, and the practise of accounting helps us realise where our business is and how it is performing.

Steve Begg – Founder & CEO of Start Up Alliance

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One of the best ways to learn how to do something is to copy or emulate someone who has already done it and done it well. The interviews within Startup Alliance are with people who have got a good handle on their Accounting of their business or they have done a terrible job, and both are as valuable as each other.

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