Accounting or accountancy is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non-financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations.
Accounting deals with numbers. [archaic form = reconcile] To give a responsible account of… to give explanation, reasons, causes, grounds, careful thought and consideration… It is the act of regarding, reckoning, counting or computing something; to give consideration, reckoning, reason, explanation, or answer.
Bookkeeping is the process of recording financial transactions pertaining to a business. The accounting process includes summarizing, analysing, verifying, and reporting business and financial transactions to oversight agencies, regulators and tax collection entities.
The system of recording and summarizing entails:
- Financial Accounting
- Cost Accounting
- Auditing
- Managerial Accounting
- Accounting Information Systems
- Tax Accounting
- Forensic Accounting
- Fiduciary Accounting