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" Bookkeeping and accounting are the same ". Do you agree ?

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Question added by Said Shaban , Accountant , Tri State Materials Testing
Date Posted: 2015/08/08

Bookkeeping usually involves only the recording of economic events and therefore is just one part of the entire accounting process. Accounting, on the other hand, involves the entire process of identifying, recording, and communicating economic events.

Deepak Walia
by Deepak Walia , Commercial Manager , Biosafe Lab India P Ltd.

Book Keeping and accounting itself says, that Book Keeping is keeping of records of books, and accounting is keeping the record of all kinds of accounts.

Mehboob Ali Laghari
by Mehboob Ali Laghari , Social Mobilization Team Incharge , TRDP-European Union

I dont agree. bookkeeping is the name of keeping the financial records only. while Accounting is the art of recording, Classifying, analyzing, summarizing in significant manner and interpreting the result of financial event of the business.

Muhammad Nisar
by Muhammad Nisar , Manager Accounts and Finance , MALIK CORPORATION & MMC RECYCLING LIMITED

Not Agreed. The bookkeeping is the subset of Accounting and involves the recording of the economic/business transactions. While the Accounting is a complete cycle of a transaction starting from identifying the transaction to the reporting in the desired pattern.

Saidul Alam
by Saidul Alam , Accountant , Akhtar Al Balushi Trad. & Cont. L.L.C

Not same.......................

Rosalie Malala
by Rosalie Malala , Accounts Supervisor , TULAY SA PAG-UNLAD, INC

Bookkeeping is only a part of Accounting wherein it involves recording and monitoring of transactions in a company.

Himanshu Jain
by Himanshu Jain , Accounting Assistant , M/S GURDAS DISTRIBUTORS

The accounting process involves recording, interpreting, classifying, analyzing, reporting and summarizing financial data. Bookkeeping is the process of recording financial transactions. Recording financial transactions is the first part of and the foundation of the accounting process.

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