Purpose of Financial Accounting
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What types of decisions can be made using financial accounting information?
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Why does financial accounting have to comply with GAAP but managerial doesn't?
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Why does financial accounting have to comply with GAAP but managerial doesn't?
What types of decisions can be made using financial accounting information? What types of decisions can be made using managerial accounting?
The purpose of accounting is to provide the necessary information that is needed to make sound economic decisions.
Financial Accounting
The main purpose of financial accounting, a subset of the science of accounting, is to prepare necessary financial reports about a firm's financial performance for interested outside parties such as investors, lenders, creditors, analysts, tax, and other governmental regulatory agencies.
In order that companies report their financial performance fairly and consistently, they must ...
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