Explain the importance and limitations of accounting
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it's very important. If you want to earn money you should choose it
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Advantages of Accounting:
- Accounting helps to maintain the business records in a systematic manner.
- It helps in the preparation of financial statements.
- Accounting information is also used to compare the result of current year with the previous year to analyze the changes.
- It helps the managers in the decision making process.
- It provides information to other interested parties such as shareholders, creditors, investors, customers, government, employees, regulatory bodies etc.
- It helps in taxation matter
- Accounting information can be produced as evidence in the legal matter.
- It helps in valuation of business.
Limitations of Accounting
- The items expressed in monetary terms are recorded in the accountings where as the items which are nonmonetary nature not recorded.
- Sometimes accounting data are recorded on the basis of estimates and which could be inaccurate.
- Fixed assets are recorded as the original cost.
- Value of money does not remain stable so accounting value does not show true financial results.
- Accounting can be manipulated and biased.
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