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Relationship Between Business And Finance And Accounting

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In the world-at-large, Finance and Accounting are often erroneously linked together. As if to say, they are one-and-the-same – a sort of a misnomer, you can say. In conversations concerning both disciplines, the colloquial marriage of both business sectors is as common place as light is to the day. It is true, that to successfully manage a business, both principles must be applied in equilibrium to replicate success in any organized venture; however, their differences are highlighted in training and practice, and are applied in different ways professionally, as well as in one’s personal life. Yadda! Yadda! Yadda! I feel like a boring Accountant describing journal entries and T-Charts! To T-rade or to T-Chart: that is the question, whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the pangs of Accounting, or the slings and arrows of outrageous fortunes of Finance… a reinterpretation of the famous Hamlet line. Oops! I digressed a bit. Finance and Accounting are held under the umbrella of Business Management, they are two different disciplines in study and practice.

As a Business major with experience in both disciplines, I can understand the difficulty in separating the two fields and their applications. Accounting is carefully recording monetary transactions for analysis and future reporting. It involves the tedious, yet necessary, task of balancing incoming monies for application against outgoing invoices of debt; and managing the value of large purchases, as they lose value over

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