Tag: bookkeeping

The Balance Sheet

  As discussed in my earlier posts, the balance sheet shows the financial position of an entity. In addition to the example introduced earlier whereby the owner contributed $10,000 cash at bank as capital (please refer to my post titled Debits and Credits), t...

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Debits and Credits

  These two words are typical to the world of accounting and they relate to the Accounting Equation: – Assets = Liabilities + Owners’ Equity Under what we called double entry system in accounting, each transaction must be recorded TWO times. For ...

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The Accounting Equation

  You can find a lot of materials on-line about what accounting is about and you will not miss them mentioning The Accounting Equation: – ASSETS = LIABILITIES + OWNERS’ EQUITY Assets are simply those things that are valuable to an entity and they ...

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