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Accounting is a major part of business. No matter what kind of business it is, without good account skills the business has a good chance of failing. The basics of accounting are simple, and broken down into four major parts to understand, they are: A Balance sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement, and a Statement of Returned Earnings.
The basic understanding of accounting is broken up into two major categories, assets and liabilities. Assets are items in a company that are for the positive, these include cash, equipment, buildings and land are assets for a company. Liabilities are things that the company is responsible for; these can include wages, taxes, leases, and other short or long-term payables. Combining the assets and liabilities onto a paper for analysis or reporting is done on a balance sheet.
The balance sheet combines the assets and liabilities to show the book value of all items in a company, usually divided by a fiscal year, it is a snapshot of the......

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