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  • Practical Accounting 3 – What the Business Owns & What it Owes

    Practical Accounting 3 – What the Business Owns & What it Owes

    Before we consider any accounting implications, write down a list of things you might need to start a business.  These are all items that the business will own and that it will use to make money. Accountants group these things together and call them assets.

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  • Practical Accounting 2 – Purpose of Accounting

    Practical Accounting 2 – Purpose of Accounting

    Accounting provides an objective way to record the financial effects of business transactions.  This results in a set of numbers that can be used to evaluate a company, compare it to other companies, and compare its performance in the current year to prior years.

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