Question
Explain briefly any five advantages of accounting.

Answer

  1. Financial Information about Business: Financial performance during the accounting period, i.e., profit earned or loss incurred and also the financial position at the end of the accounting period is known through accounting.
  2. Assistance to Management: The management makes business plans, takes decisions and exercises control over the affairs on the basis of accounting information.
  3. Replaces Memory: A systematic and timely recording of transactions obviates the necessity to remember transactions. The accounting record provides the necessary information.
  4. Facilitates Comparative Study: A systematic record enables a businessman to compare one year's results with those of other years and locate significant fac leading to change, if any.
  5. Facilitates Settlement of Tax Liabilities: A systematic accounting record immensely helps in settlement of income tax and Goods and Services Tax (GST) liabilities, since it is a good evidence of the correctness of transactions.
  6. Facilitates Loans: Loan is granted by the banks and financial institutions on the basis of growth potential which is supported by the performance. Accounting makes available the information with respect to performance.
  7. Evidence in Court: Systematic record of transactions is often accepted by the Courts as good evidence.
  8. Facilitates Sale of Business: If someone desires to sell his business, the accounts maintained by him will enable the ascertainment of the proper purchase price.
  9. Assistance in the Event of Insolvency: Insolvency proceedings involve explaining many transactions that have taken place in the past. Systematic accounting records assist a great deal in such situation.

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