Intermediate Accounting: Reporting and Analysis
Intermediate Accounting: Reporting and Analysis
2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781285453828
Author: James M. Wahlen, Jefferson P. Jones, Donald Pagach
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Explain the role of financial accounting and financial reporting. Explain the way they related.

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Financial accounting: It is the process of recording, summarizing, and reporting all the financial transactions related to a business in the financial statement for a certain period. The financial statement contains of the balance sheet, income statement, statement of retained earnings, and the cash flow statement.

Financial reporting:  Financial reporting is the procedure to communicate the information obtained from the financial statements prepared. It is necessary to disclose the data to various stakeholders as various decisions need to be taken by the stakeholders.

The role of financial accounting is recording, summarizing, and reporting all the financial transactions in the financial statement of the business over a period of time.

The role of financial reporting is to communicate the information to the users, obtained from the financial statements.

Financial reporting communicates the information obtained from the financial accounting.

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