Transcription of BASIC ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES
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DIPLOMA IN INSURANCE SERVICESMODULE - 1 NotesBasic ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES Business Environment 605 BASIC ACCOUNTING INTRODUCTIONWe have studied economic activities which have been convertedinto business activities. In business activity a lot of give &take exist which is known as transaction. Transaction involvestransfer of money or money s worth. Thus exchange of money,goods & services between the parties is known to have resultedin a transaction. It is necessary to record all these transactionsvery systematically & scientifically so that the financialrelationship of a business with other persons may be properlyunderstood, profit & loss and financial position of the businessmay be worked out at a particular date. The procedure to recordall these transactions is known as Book-keeping .In other words the book keeping may be defined as an activityconcerned with the recording of financial data relating tobusiness operations in an orderly manner.
, it is called as “imperfect accounting”. Double entry system: The double entry system was first evolved by Luca Pacioli, who was a Franciscan Monk of Italy. With the passage of time, the system has gone through lot of developmental stages. It is the only method fulfilling all the objectives of systematic accounting. It recognizes the two fold
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