Types of accounting
The basic purpose of accounting is to provide useful
information about an economic entity, to facilitate the decision making of its
different users (shareholders, creditors, investors, clients, administrators
and government. However, taking into account the different information needs of
the various user segments, the total information generated in one economic
entity for different users has been structured into three subsystems.
Divisions of accounting types
1st Financial information subsystem:
It is composed of a
series of elements that configure it. Among the main ones are registration
rules, accounting criteria, forms of presentation, etc. This information
subsystem is known as financial accounting. Financial accounting is an
information system that expresses in quantitative and monetary terms the
transactions carried out by an economic entity, as well as certain economic
events that affect it, in order to provide useful and safe information to
external users to the organization for its taking of decisions.
2nd Subsystem of administrative information:
They are
grouped in the administrative accounts. Administrative accounting is an
information system serving the internal needs of the administration, with a
pragmatic orientation aimed at facilitating the administrative functions of
planning and control as well as decision making.
3rd Fiscal information subsystem:
similarly from the
previous cases the fiscal accounting in an information system designed to
fulfill the tax obligations of the organizations with respect to a specific
user: Tax.

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