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2. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (United States)

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   v. t. e. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ( GAAP or U.S. GAAP or GAAP (USA), pronounced like "gap") is the accounting standard adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) [1] and is the default accounting standard used by companies based in the United States . The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) publishes ...

3. Accounting - Wikipedia

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   e. Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations. [1] [2] Accounting measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of stakeholders, including investors, creditors, management, and ...

4. Management accounting principles - Wikipedia

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   The above principles are incorporated into the Managerial Costing Conceptual Framework (MCCF) along with concepts and constraints to help govern the management accounting practice. The framework ends decades of confusion [1] surrounding management accounting approaches, tools and techniques and their capabilities.

5. Financial accounting - Wikipedia

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   Financial accounting is a branch of accounting concerned with the summary, analysis and reporting of financial transactions related to a business. [1] This involves the preparation of financial statements available for public use. Stockholders, suppliers, banks, employees, government agencies, business owners, and other stakeholders are ...

6. Accounting equation - Wikipedia

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   The fundamental accounting equation, also called the balance sheet equation, is the foundation for the double-entry bookkeeping system and the cornerstone of the entire accounting science. Like any equation, each side will always be equal. In the accounting equation, every transaction will have a debit and credit entry, and the total debits ...

7. Generally Accepted Auditing Standards - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. Generally Accepted Auditing Standards, or GAAS are sets of standards against which the quality of audits are performed and may be judged. Several organizations have developed such sets of principles, which vary by territory. In the United States, the standards are promulgated by the Auditing Standards Board, a division of the American ...