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Bookkeeping is the recording of the money values of the function of a business. Bookkeeping provides the details from which accounts are written but is a different process, prerequisite to accounting.

Essentially, bookkeeping finds two types of information: (1) the current value, or equity, of an entity and (2) changes in value—profit or loss—taking place in the business over a singular time.

Management officials, investors, and credit grantors all need this information: management so as to interpret the results of operations, to control costs, to budget for the future, and to make financial policy decisions; investors in order to understand the outcome of business operations and make decisions about buying, holding, and selling securities; and credit grantors so as to assess the financial statements of an entity in assessing whether to allow a loan.

Traces of financial and numerical recordkeeping are seen for nearly every civilization with a commercial history. Records of trading contracts were found in the archaelogical digs of Babylon, and accounts for both farms and estates have been archived in ancient Greece and Rome. The double-entry manner of bookkeeping came with the development of the business republics of Italy, and instruction books for bookkeeping were produced in the 15th century in some Italian cities.

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Industrial Revolution granted a significant stimulus to accounting and bookkeeping.

The rise of manufacturing, trading, shipping, and subsidiary services made factual financial bookkeeping a must-have. The ancestry of bookkeeping, in fact, resembles the history of commerce, industry, and government and, in part, helped in shaping it. The international market of industrial and commercial activity needed better sophisticated decision-making methodology, which then called for greater sophistication in the selection, classification, and presentation of information, even more so with the assistance of computers. Taxation and government legislation became more significant and resulted in increased requirement for information; businesses had to provide information to support their income tax, payroll tax, sales tax, and other tax reports. Governmental agencies and educational and other nonprofit institutions also grew in size, and the demand for bookkeeping for their own departmental operations went up.

Though bookkeeping methodology can be extremely detailed, all are based on two kinds of books used in the bookkeeping process—journals and ledgers. A journal should have the daily transactions (sales, purchases, etcetera), and the ledger should have the records of individual accounts. The daily records kept in the journals are put in the ledgers.

Each month, as a general rule, an income statement and a balance sheet are made from the trial balance posted within the ledger. The point of the income statement or profit-and-loss statement is to show an analysis of the changes that took place in the entity equity because of the transactions of the period. The balance sheet provides the financial condition of the entity at the particular point in time derived from assets, liabilities, and the ownership equity.

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