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Accounting Cycle
This chapter will help the readers to:
- Understand the accounting process leading to the preparation of the profit and loss statement, and the balance sheet.
- Differentiate between real accounts, personal accounts and nominal accounts.
- Apply the rules for debiting or crediting different types of accounts.
- Understand the process of ledger posting, balancing of accounts and preparation of trial balance.
- Prepare the profit and loss statement, and balance sheet from a given trial balance and year-end adjustment entries.
The financial statements—the profit and loss statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow statement— convey useful information about the financial health of a business enterprise. Every manager ...
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