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How can you define Accounting in one sentence?

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Question added by Tariq Raza , MANAGER FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS , MBE ACCOUNTING CANADA
Date Posted: 2013/12/10
Rehan Qureshi
by Rehan Qureshi , Financial Consultant , Self Employeed

Accounting is a process of calculating and maintaining the performance of business in monetary terms

فخر الدين محمد السعيد
by فخر الدين محمد السعيد , Senior Accountant , Amco Technology International

How Could you know that you made a profit or losing without "Accounting"

Muhammad Faheem
by Muhammad Faheem , Consultant- Accounts, Audit & Taxation , Basim Associates

"Accounting is the language of business".

Ossama Elnahas
by Ossama Elnahas , Accounts Payable (AP) Employee Benefits Supervisor – Cash Van / Route-to-Market Operations , Castrol

Accounting : the system or occupation that provides quantitative information about finances and setting up , maintaining, and auditing the books of a company and of analyzing its financial status and operating results.

FAIZA MAHREEN BANGASH
by FAIZA MAHREEN BANGASH , INTERNEE , BANK OF KHYBER

Maintaining and calculating business records.

Jasmin Mathai
by Jasmin Mathai , Executive / Administrative Assistant to Assistant Vice President , United Arab Shipping Co.

Accounting is a process and the backbone of any business' success, which requires logical analysis and factual evidence, to measure the success or failure monetarily and find out the areas that requires improvement.

Tariq Raza
by Tariq Raza , MANAGER FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS , MBE ACCOUNTING CANADA

Dear Friends I like the most effective definition of Accounting in single sentence is

"Accounting is a business LAnguage"

Faisal Farooqi Farooqi
by Faisal Farooqi Farooqi , Senior Business partner & Financial Analyst , Tasnee

Recording, Analysing and Presenting of business transaction

Syed Yasir Ali Siraj Ul Haq
by Syed Yasir Ali Siraj Ul Haq , Senior General Accountant , Arakan General Trading Company LLC

Accounting as an "ART" in which we record financial transactions in monetary terms.

Mohammed Salim Allana
by Mohammed Salim Allana , Compliance and Assurance Manager , United Arab Bank

The traditional definition of

"Accounting is Recording of transactions and book keeping as per generally acceptable accounting principles and standards".

Ahmed Saeed
by Ahmed Saeed , Supply Chain and Purchasing Manager , Tuff Gear Ltd.

 the system of recording and summarizing business and financial transactions and analyzing, verifying, and reporting the results

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