The principles and objectives that guide the creation of accounting information under accrual accounting are called?
The principles and objectives that guide the creation of accounting information under accrual accounting are called?
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The principles and objectives that guide the creation of accounting information under accrual accounting are called?
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- The matching principle, which is related to accrual accounting, asserts that an expense must be recorded in the same time frame as the correlating revenue is earned.
- The objective of accrual accounting is to align revenues and costs to the time frames in which they were generated rather than the timing of the actual cash flows.
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