| Abstract from DBPedia | Bookkeeping is the recording of financial transactions, and is part of the process of accounting in business and other organizations. It involves preparing source documents for all transactions, operations, and other events of a business. Transactions include purchases, sales, receipts and payments by an individual person or an organization/corporation. There are several standard methods of bookkeeping, including the single-entry and double-entry bookkeeping systems. While these may be viewed as "real" bookkeeping, any process for recording financial transactions is a bookkeeping process. The person in an organisation who is employed to perform bookkeeping functions is usually called the bookkeeper (or book-keeper). They usually write the (which contain records of sales, purchases, receipts, and payments), and document each financial transaction, whether cash or credit, into the correct daybook—that is, petty cash book, suppliers ledger, customer ledger, etc.—and the general ledger. Thereafter, an accountant can create financial reports from the information recorded by the bookkeeper. The bookkeeper brings the books to the trial balance stage, from which an accountant may prepare financial reports for the organisation, such as the income statement and balance sheet.簿記（ぼき、英語: bookkeeping）とは、企業などの経済主体が経済取引によりもたらされる資産・負債・純資産の増減を管理し、併せて一定期間内の収益及び費用を記録することである。より平易な言い方をすると「お金やものの出入りを記録するための方法」である。記帳方法によって単式簿記と複式簿記があるが、今日では、産業革命以降、企業の大規模化に伴い一般的な記帳方式である「複式の商業簿記」を指して「簿記」と称することもある。簿記の種類には商業簿記、工業簿記、銀行簿記、農業簿記などがある。簿記は、会計学よりも会計における実務に近い部分を担当する。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bookkeeping) |
