Types of accounting
Accounting can be classified into two branches, depending on
the division criteria used. According to the type of economic unit to
which the generated accounting information refers, the following classification
can be made:
Macrocontabilidad
Main article: National accounts
National accounting provides systematic numerical
representation of a country's economic activity over a given period. It is
elaborated by the States, it provides useful information that guides the
economic policy of the country.
Microcontabilidad
It is the accounting of small economic units. Its
purpose is to provide information that will be used in decision-making. Within
micro-accountability, public accounting, executed by different public
administrations and private, business-oriented accounting, is distinguished.
Within business accounting, users of accounting information
can be divided into internal and external users. The internal user group
comprises all those persons or bodies that use the information from within the
company for the appropriate decision making in the direction of the same. On
the other hand, external users use accounting for the management of the company
that is the subject of the information, and include all entities that do not
participate in management, such as shareholders, creditors, lenders, clients,
investors, employees and public administration , Especially the tax
administration, and who basically need the accounting information to also make
decisions and control the company from multiple points of view.
- Financial accounting (external): provides the essential information on the operation and financial status of the company to all interested economic agents (clients, investors, suppliers, public administrations, etc.). The legislation of most countries regulates the rules of financial accounting to homogenize the resulting information and give it greater reliability and comparability. Financial accounting usually has little detail because it contains very aggregated information.
- Accounting management or accounting (internal): which encompasses cost accounting . It is the accounting developed with an internal purpose or self-consumption in the company itself and is used for the calculation of costs, economic and productive states within the company that will serve to make decisions regarding production, organization, marketing, etc. . It is characterized by being more flexible, since it is based on self-regulation, is subject only to standards that self-imposed the company and not to legal regulations, is usually more detailed than financial accounting and is also more immediate than this, because Must serve for very close decisions. On the other hand,
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