Intermediate Accounting
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781259722660
Author: J. David Spiceland, Mark W. Nelson, Wayne M Thomas
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Financial accounting: Financial accounting is the process of recording, summarizing, and reporting all the transactions in the financial statement of the business over a period of time. The financial statement consists of the balance sheet, income statement, statement of retained earnings, and the cash flow statement.
To Identify: The accounting concept that is applied if you agree with the given statement and the accounting concept that is violated if you disagree with the given statement.
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