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INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING
In all activities (whether business activities or non-business activities) and in
all organizations (whether business organizations like a manufacturing entity or
trading entity or non-business organizations like schools, colleges, hospitals, libraries,
clubs, temples, political parties) which require money and other economic resources,
accounting is required to account for these resources. In other words, wherever money
is involved, accounting is required to account for it. Accounting is often called the
language of business. The basic function of any language is to serve as a means of
communication. Accounting also serves this function