What accounts are closed to income summary at the end of the fiscal year?
All Sales and Expense accounts are closed and the balancing figure is shown on the Balance Sheet.
What is meant by the phrase generally accepted accounting principles?
GAAP help to ensure that financial information fairly presents a firm's operating results and financial position.GAAP is important for uniformity reasons. Any where in the world as long as the two companies are operating in the same industry you can easy compare them simple because of GAAP.
The difference between assets and liabilities is?
assets are what the business owned and liabilities are what the business owe.
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The answer, in any case, would vary according to the year, or period under review.