Connect Access Card for Financial Accounting: Information and Decisions
Connect Access Card for Financial Accounting: Information and Decisions
8th Edition
ISBN: 9781259662966
Author: John J Wild
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Summary Introduction

Accounting is an art of recording and processing transactions and preparing meaningful reports. Accounting provides summarized reports for numerous transactions in one place. 

To indicate: The purpose of accosting in society. 

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Accounting is an essential part of society because it provides financial reports for monetary transactions. Society is engaged in several monetary transactions and it needs to record these transactions and know the financial impacts. Accounting also helps in resolution and avoidance of disputes related to financial engagements. Hence, the purpose of accounting in society is to provide financial reports and resolutions of monetary disputes. 

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Connect Access Card for Financial Accounting: Information and Decisions

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