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Bookkeeping is an essential part of the finance profession. It is also an essential part of all accounting systems. The main purpose of accounting and its main function is a systematic recording and recording of financial transactions.

Typically, accounting refers to a process of measuring, recording, and identifying important economic information used in connection with an organization or other commercial and non-commercial formation to enable users of the information to make informed judgments.

Goal of efficient accounting
Accounting helps in the preparation of financial statements and financial data in general. It includes the record keeping aspect of bookkeeping; Therefore, accounting principles can also be applied to bookkeeping. Often information relating to the financial condition of the company is presented on a balance sheet and information about operating results is presented on an income statement. In addition, some data relating to a company's liquidity and changes in the company's financial structure are usually reviewed in a statement of changes in financial condition. Financial statements are needed to provide information about the company's past performance that provides a way to forecast what might happen to that company in the future.

All of a company's financial data provide the accounting input. These can be salary cards, reports as well as special journals such as sales journal or purchase journal, cash book, bank checks and invoices, where each recorded information or what it is called – transaction is identified in two aspects or dimensions – debit and credit aspect.

Accountants, auditors and accounting associations
Usually there is a specific person who manages the accounting in a company. He or she may be professionally referred to as an accountant or accountant. An accountant prepares certain adjustments to record events that are considered transactions already completed related to the company's income, expenses, wages of employees, etc.

The Accountant position requires an individual able to process financial documents and reports, payroll including taxes and garnishments, process accounts payable, as well as maintain day-to-day banking activities and assist with bank reconciliations while working within the realm of a basic system of Double-entry bookkeeping was invented more than five hundred years ago by a Cistercian monk named Luca Pacioli. All accountants must have the core skills of accounting to be able to work in this professional field.

There are specific accounting associations that aim to provide support and standards for those working in the accounting industry. In the United States, there are several professional organizations that maintain, develop, and ensure information about accounting standards, such as the National Bookkeepers Association, the National Association of Certified Public Bookkeepers, the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers, and an Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB). ICB can look back on more than 20 years of professional experience. It was established to raise and raise the standards of accounting around the world.

Bookkeeping certification in the U.S.
In USA being certified bookkeeper means having a Certificate of Bookkeeping, being a member of Bookkeepers Association, performing bookkeeping services at a significant level for a period exceeding 2 years as well as having a proven level of bookkeeping knowledge.

According to ICB bookkeepers’ duties include: recognizing what the business does and making sure the customer gets billed, issuing and then recording that invoice and making sure the customer pays. Bookkeepers are responsible for: tracking down all the ways a company spends money, recording cash documents, monitor company’s ordering system, receive, check for validity, schedule/note for payment supplier invoices, paying company’s suppliers and recording payments, paying employees and recording the payment and the payroll obligations.

All the ICB bookkeepers have been provided an ICB's Code of Professional Conduct which has special rules that can be applied to all members of the Institute. Members must comply with the requirements of these rules and any failure to do so shall constitute misconduct which fundamental principles are listed on ICB’s webpage