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  2. History of accounting - Wikipedia

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    The history of accounting or accountancy can be traced to ancient civilizations. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] The early development of accounting dates to ancient Mesopotamia, and is closely related to developments in writing, counting and money [ 1 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] and early auditing systems by the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians. [ 2 ]

  3. Pay-per-view - Wikipedia

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    Pay-per-view. Pay-per-view (PPV) is a type of pay television or webcast service that enables a viewer to pay to watch individual events via private telecast. Events can be purchased through a multichannel television platform using their electronic program guide, an automated telephone system, or through a live customer service representative.

  4. Net present value - Wikipedia

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    Net present value. The net present value (NPV) or net present worth (NPW) [1] is a way of measuring the value of an asset that has cashflow by adding up the present value of all the future cash flows that asset will generate. The present value of a cash flow depends on the interval of time between now and the cash flow because of the Time value ...

  5. Trial balance - Wikipedia

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    Accounting. A trial balance is an internal financial statement that lists the adjusted closing balances of all the general ledger accounts (both revenue and capital) contained in the ledger of a business as at a specific date. This list will contain the name of each nominal ledger account in the order of liquidity and the value of that nominal ...

  6. Accounting History - Wikipedia

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    Accounting History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the history of accounting. The journal's editors-in-chief are Carolyn Fowler (Victoria University of Wellington), [1] Carolyn Cordery (Aston University) [2] and Laura Maran (RMIT University). [3][4] It was established in 1996 and is published by SAGE Publications in ...

  7. Positive and negative predictive values - Wikipedia

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    The positive predictive value (PPV), or precision, is defined as = + = where a "true positive" is the event that the test makes a positive prediction, and the subject has a positive result under the gold standard, and a "false positive" is the event that the test makes a positive prediction, and the subject has a negative result under the gold standard.

  8. Double-entry bookkeeping - Wikipedia

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    Accounts clerk. v. t. e. Double-entry bookkeeping, also known as double-entry accounting, is a method of bookkeeping that relies on a two-sided accounting entry to maintain financial information. Every entry to an account requires a corresponding and opposite entry to a different account. The double-entry system has two equal and corresponding ...

  9. Adjusting entries - Wikipedia

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    In accounting, adjusting entries are journal entries usually made at the end of an accounting period to allocate income and expenditure to the period in which they actually occurred. The revenue recognition principle is the basis of making adjusting entries that pertain to unearned and accrued revenues under accrual-basis accounting.