Article | REF: AG1200 V2

Accounting mechanisms

Author: Bernard CHRISTOPHE

Publication date: April 10, 2016

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1. Principle of double-entry bookkeeping

In order to provide information about a company, accounting must trace the operations it carries out. In order to understand its accounting transposition, it is therefore necessary to analyze the company's activity very quickly.

1.1 Company activity through flows

The company produces goods and services by combining a number of resources (purchased raw materials, use of personnel, borrowed capital, etc.). The company will have to pay for the resources it uses, but, in return, it will be remunerated for the goods and services it renders.

The company will therefore be crossed by flows (i.e. movements and transactions) that can be classified into two main categories:

  • real flows (goods and...

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