What are accounting Principles?
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Answer / madhav rao
Accounting principles are basically the general rules and
guidelines that every firm has to follow while preparing
their accounts.The principles are :
a) Consistency
b) Materiality
c) Dual aspect
d) Conservatism
e) Reliability
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Answer / swapna
There are three types of Accounting principles:
1.Real Account
2.Nominal Account
3.Personal Account
Real Account:Debit what comes in credit what goes out.
Nominal Account:Debit all Expenses and Losses and
Credit all Gains and Incomes
Personal Account:debit the receiver
credit the giver
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Answer / prince
Accounting Principals:
Personal Account:Debit the receiver
Credit the giver
(accounts recording transactions with person)
Real Account : Debit what comes in
Credit what goes out
(It is relating to tangible things like
goods, cash,Buildings,Bills Receivable)
Nominal Account : Debit expenses and losess
Credit incomes and gains
(It is relate to the losses, gains,
expenses and incomes like rent salaries
Bad debts.....)
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Answer / s geetha
Personal A/c
1) Debit the Receiver
2) Credit the Give
Real A/c
1) Debit what Comes in
2) Credit What Goes out
Nominal A/c
1) Debit all the Expenses and Loss
2) Credit all the Income and Gain
Is This Answer Correct ? | 116 Yes | 40 No |
Answer / sadanandam
There are 3 accounting principle
Real account:debit what comes in and credit what goes out
Eg: machinery a/c dr
To cash a/c
(Being machinery purchased by cash)
purchases a/c dr
To cash a/c
Nominal account:debit all expenses credit all incomes
Eg: salaries a/c dr
To cash a/c
(Being salaries paid by cash)
cash a/c dr
To sales a/c
personal account:debit the receiver and credit the giver
Eg: Raj a/c Dr
To cash a/c
(Being cash paid)
cash a/c dr
To shubash a/c
(Being cash received from shubash)
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Answer / safora
The general decision rules which govern the development of
accounting techniques.these principles guide how
transactions should be recorded and reported.
accounting principles includes accounting concepts and
accounting conventions.
Under accounting concepts comes separate entity,going
concern,money measurement,cost dual aspect,accounting
period matching concept,realisition
Under accounting conventions comes conservatism,full
disclosure,consistency,materiality.
Is This Answer Correct ? | 92 Yes | 39 No |
Answer / shoukatali
Persnol A/c
debit the receiver and the cerdit the giver
Real A/c
debit what comes in and cerdit what goes out
nominal A/c
debit all expenses and losses and cerdit all incomes and
revenues
Is This Answer Correct ? | 93 Yes | 48 No |
Answer / komal
accounting principals are uniform set of rules or
guidelines developed to enshure uniformity and easy
understanding of of the accounting information.
types of accounting principals
1.accounting of concept
2.accounting of convention.
*accounting of concept;
1business entity concept
2money measurement concept
3going concern concept
4accounting period concept
5cost concept
6dual aspect concept
7revenur recognisation concept
8matching concept
9accrual concept
10objective concept
accounting of convention;
1convention of full disclosure
2convention of meterariality
3convention of conservatism
4convention of consistency
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Answer / vishnu
Accounting principles are:
1. Going concern
2. Dual aspect
3. Accrual basis and
4. Consistency
Is This Answer Correct ? | 402 Yes | 380 No |
Answer / srinibas pattnaik
The basic princples of accounting are method of accounting
and rules of accounting .Accounting Principles devided into
two types.
A)concepts & B)conventions
A)conepts.
1.Entity concept.
2.Going concern concept.
3.Cost cocept.
4.Realization concept.
5.Accounting period concept.
6.Dual aspect concept.
7.Money measurement concept.
8.Matching concept.
9.Materiality concept.
B)conventions.
1.Relevance convention
2.Objectivity convention
3.Feasibility convention
Is This Answer Correct ? | 37 Yes | 18 No |
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