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From a real lesson: Accounting Cycle · Accounting
OpenStax's Principles of Accounting defines the accounting cycle as a step-by-step process to record business activities and events to keep financial records up to date. CFI frames the same idea as recording and processing all of a company's financial transactions, from the moment one occurs to its place on the financial statements to closing the accounts. In plainer words, the cycle is the…
The accounting cycle is the routine a business follows with its money every period. First you notice what happened — a sale, a purchase, a loan payment. Then you write each event down in the journal, sort the entries into the ledger, and run a trial balance to check that the numbers line up. You make small end-of-period adjustments, build the financial statements, and close the books so the next…
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