Understanding accounting

In the world of business, education, banking, business and other types of business we are certainly familiar with accounting, as blogs that are sharing information or sharing information about accounting, I gave some information about the understanding of accounting, where the understanding of accounting or accounting definition is always changing to follow the changes and development of the business world.

Accounting term derived from English to an account which means taking into account or mempertangung accountable and Accountancy word that means the things that concerned with something that is done by the accountant (accountant)

This accounting definition contained in the accounting terminilogiy bulletin as follows:
Accounting: a set of knowledge and functions concerned with issues of procurement, approval, registration, classification and presentation of systematic information dapt reliable and efficient about the transactions and financial events that are required in the management and operation of a business unit and needed as a basis for preparing reports to be submitted to meet the financial and other accountability.

The following accounting definitions as contained in the statements of accounting principles board no 4 yr (1970) as follows:
Accounting is an activity of service provision, its function is memyediakan kuntitafif information about economic business units, particularly those of financial nature, which is expected to be useful in making economic decisions.

So the notion of accounting as to achieve the goal of financial information memyediakan business entity that is useful for decision making.