Wednesday, June 12, 2013

DOUBLE ENTRY SYSTEM

DOUBLE ENTRY SYSTEM

A systematic as well as scientific recording system of transactions, which records both the accounts associated with a transaction as one is debit and another is credit by using a set of its well established rules -is known as double entry system. It is known that every transaction requires at least two parties/accounts. To run accounting systematically it's a must to record both the aspects/accounts just like for clasping better using of two hands is a must. This system records the debit and the credit aspects of a trisection with an equal amount of money as they are arisen from the same transaction. Thus, according to this system, for each debit there will be a corresponding credit of an equal amount and vice versa. Example: When we buy machinery for Tk.1,00,000. Obviously, it brings two changes - machinery, an asset, increases by Tk. 1,00,000 and cash, an another asset, decreases by an equal amount of money. While recording this transaction in the books of accounts, both the changes must be recorded together. To record increasing an asset (machinery) we will have to debit it, and to record decreasing an asset (cash) we have to credit it. So the transaction will be recorded as-

Machinery        Tk. 1,00,000
     Cash                Tk. 1,00,000
(To record the purchase of machinery)

Thus we see that for every transaction we records two accounts, , generally which are affected by the transaction and that's why, the system is known as double entry system. The man looms the concept first is Luca Pacioli, a Venetian merchants. In 1494 he describes first the system of double-entry bookkeeping in his publication Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita. It is regarded as the best and the only scientific method of accounting system and universally accepted. It has been built on well defined rules and principles which is the foundation of modern accountancy. The fundamental principle of double entry system lies in analyzing the two changes (parties) involved in business transactions and properly recording of both the changes in the books of accounts. There is no exception to this principle. If a complete picture of the transactions is to be reflected through books of accounts, the double entry system must be duly observed. Otherwise the books of accounts will fail to provide complete information and the objectives of accounting will be defeated.


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  1. Double Entry system seeks to record every transaction in money or money’s worth in its double aspect – the receipt of a benefit by one account and the surrender of a like benefit by another account, the former entry being to the debit of the account receiving the later to the credit of the account surrendering.

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