Accountancy is the process of communicating financial information about a business entity to users such as shareholders and managers. The communication is generally in the form of financial statements that show in money terms the economic resources under the control of management; the art lies in selecting the information that is relevant to the user and is reliable.
Accounting is defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) as “the art of recording, classifying, and summarizing in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least, of financial character, and interpreting the results thereof.”
Accountancy is a branch of mathematical science that is useful in discovering the causes of success and failure in business.The principlesof accountancy are applied to business entities in three divisions of practical art, named accounting, bookkeeping, and auditing.
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