TOPICS IN ACCOUNTING

Topics in accounting

See list of accounting topics for complete listing.

Auditing
Assurance services
Audit
Information technology audit
Internal audit

Accountancy methods and fields
Lean accounting
Cost accounting
Cash-basis and accrual-basis accounting
Financial accountancy
Fund Accounting
Internal and external accountancy
Management accounting
Project accounting
Positive accounting
Environmental accounting
Tax accounting

Accounting Principles

Accounting principles, rules of conduct and action are described by various terms such as concepts, conventions, tenets, assumptions, axioms and postulates.

Accounting concepts
Entity concept
Dual aspect concept
Going concern concept
Accounting period concept
Money measurement concept
Historical Cost concept
Realization concept
Accounting methods (includes a discussion on the concept of accruals)
Understandability
Relevance
Reliability
Comparability
Accrual (also known as Matching principle)
Unified Ledger Accounting

Accounting conventions
Convention of disclosure
Convention of materiality
Convention of consistency
Convention of conservatism

Tools for accounting
Accounting software
Online accounting