Accounting is concerned with three basic concepts:
• assets
• liabilities
• equity
Let’s use a series of T accounts to trace a small job all the
way through a business. Let’s say you do some work for a cus-
tomer and you take along a contractor as an assistant. You
invoice the client; the client pays. Also, the contractor bills you.
How does this look in double-entry bookkeeping, illustrated with
T accounts? Let’s walk through it one step at a time.
Your customer calls you and asks you to do
Accounting for Managers
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T Account
A T account let you visualize both sides of an account.
We use T accounts in pairs to set up the double entry.
The left side of the T is called the
debit and right side is the
credit.
Later on, we’ll explain why some entries always go on the left and oth-
ers on the right. Here’s a pair of T accounts for writing a check to
buy $100 of office supplies.
Notice that we always record a date for each transaction.
Debit
Credit
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