Archive for November 10th, 2013
There Is No Accounting for How Important Accountants Are
An accountant is a person who is involved in the measurement, disclosure or provision of assurances about financial information. They also aid business managers, investors, tax authorities and others in decisions about resource allocation. While long perceived as a boring occupation, accountants are a critical part of any business operation. In fact, accounting goes back thousands of years to ancient Mesopotamia.
There are three basic divisions in accounting: accounting, bookkeeping and auditing. Accounting concerns someone who is responsible to managing the finical information of a particular company. Accountants are often people who have gone to school specifically to learn about accounting practices, and they may even be certified by a state board. Bookkeeping on the other hand is a very basic
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