Important Types Of Accounting Useful For Accountants

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2. TODAY'S DISCUSSION Financial Accounting Management Accounting Governmental accounting Public accounting Cost accounting Conclusion

3. FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING • Normally the financial accounting is that you expect an accountant to keep track of a company’s financial dealings. This is the book in which ledgers include black and red ink and the book-keeping side of accountancy. By using the standard guidelines which are found in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) rules it should be done. By the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) these rules are set. To present the financial reports to the shareholders and regulators, financial accountants follow specific procedures. • With the help of incomings, outgoings, debts and how funds are moving through the company, the financial accountants track the company’s current financial position of the company. • By monitoring the value of the company’s shares they make stockholder’s equity statements. • The shareholders and investors use their reports, which means the people who are outside the company, are using these reports.

4. MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING • Management accounting and financial accounting are quite similar in some ways. Financial accounting is all about the tracking of the financial position and making their reports. Financial accountants provide the report which is used externally, and these reports are created by the management accountants to be used internally. • The mangers who need the financial information to make business decisions are provided by the management accountants for example reports which have been profitable for the business areas. • For decision-making, the data which supports it is used in the form of charts and statistical techniques. • At higher levels, business references perform by the management accountants and also they can be a member of the company’s senior management team. • Management accounting is not only stating the figures, but it is also more than this, it about making predictions, and interpreting trends, qualitative aspects of business too.

5. GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING The accounting information system type which is used in the public sector refers to the governmental accounting. And also it is known as public accounting or federal accounting. And in the private sector financial accounting system there is a small aberration. By the GAAP rules, financial accounting is directed and by the GASB (Governmental Accounting Standards Board) rules governmental accounting is directed. For example, in the road improvement project, it would keep track of the income and expenses. In most cases, mainly there are five governmental funds which are used and that funds are: General fund, Permanent fund, Special revenue fund, Capital projects fund, Debt services fund. Each and every fund is tracked to provide perfect report on how money is used, and also the remaining funds are tracked.

6. PUBLIC ACCOUNTING The customers, including service businesses, producers, retailers, non-profit organizations, government organizations, and individuals are provided by the accounting services by the firms which are public accounting firms. Auditing, tax preparation, tax advisory, and advisory activities, including the preparation and analysis of financial statements is focused by the field that is the public accounting field. The companies which are public accounting companies are advised on the different business strategies, mergers, acquisitions, and internal accounting systems.And for clients the responsibility of a public accountant is to ensure their financial statements, records are filled accurately. With the tax regulations and financial reporting, public accountants work closely. If it is necessary to have accounting software programs to the customers then public accounting companies also advise the customers.

7. COST ACCOUNTING Cost accounting is one of the main accounting methods. In this method, it captures the various costs of the company’s production by evaluating the cost like input cost, fixed cost, etc. Firstly, all the costs evaluated and then it will be examined with the real cost acquired by the company. In business, cost accounting is a specialization field that seems closer to the actual cost. In the manufacturing environment, cost accounting is used internally. And also for the businesses, it can be used. For the fixed and variable costs, cost accounting looks at both. In business, cost accounting incurs such as material, labor maintenance and the cost for production. Most businesses use the standard costing system, in which for the production of any product they assign an average cost. And the accounting which is focused on the future is cost accounting and rather than describing past performance, it is used to take the decision-making process.

8. CONCLUSION Now you have seen some main types of accounting and these types of accounting help a lot the accountants in their work.

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