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Bookkeeping is the charting of the money values of the transactions of a business. Bookkeeping gives the figures from which accounts are drafted but is a separate process, prior to accounting.

Basically, bookkeeping grants two types of information: (1) the current value, or equity, of the enterprise and (2) changes in value—profit or loss—taking place in the enterprise over a particular period of time.

Management officials, investors, and credit grantors all have to have such information: management in order to interpret the results of operations, to control costs, to budget for the future, and to make financial policy decisions; investors to assess the outcome of business operations and make decisions about buying, holding, and selling securities; and credit grantors to judge the financial statements of a business in deciding whether to allow a loan.

Evidence of financial and numerical charts are seen for nearly every nation with a commercial background. Records of commercial contracts have been found in the archaelogical digs of Babylon, and accounts for both farms and estates were archived in ancient Greece and Rome. The dual-entry method of bookkeeping started with the furthering of the enterprising republics of Italy, and tutorials for bookkeeping were created during the 15th century in various Italian cities.

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Industrial Revolution granted an important stimulus to accounting and bookkeeping.

The development of manufacturing, trading, shipping, and subsidiary services made accurate financial recordkeeping a necessity. The past of bookkeeping, in fact, reflects closely the history of commerce, industry, and government and, partially, assisted in forming it. The international revolution of industrial and commercial activity needed more sophisticate decision-making methodology, which in its turn needed greater sophistication in the selection, classification, and presentation of information, even more so with the aid of computers. Taxation and government legislation became more significant and resulted in even greater need for information; firms had to have available information to bolster their income tax, payroll tax, sales tax, and other tax reports. Governmental agencies and educational and other nonprofit institutions also grew, and the need for bookkeeping for their own inner operations became higher.

Although bookkeeping methodology can be very detailed, all of it is based on two types of books utilised in the bookkeeping process—journals and ledgers. A journal has the daily transactions (sales, purchases, and so forth), and the ledger has the records of individual accounts. The daily records from the journals are entered in the ledgers.

Every month, generally speaking, an income statement and a balance sheet are prepared from the trial balance posted from the ledger. The purpose of the income statement or profit-and-loss statement is to provide an analysis of the changes that occurred in the enterprise equity due to the operations of the period. The balance sheet gives the financial situation of the entity at any particular day taken from assets, liabilities, and the ownership equity.

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