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theexternalusers.Financialaccountingproducespast-orientedreportsonan
annualorquarterlybasis,generallyabouttheorganizationasawhole.Finan-
cialaccountingisgovernedbybothlocalandinternationalaccountingregula-
tions.Internalusersofaccountinginformationworkfortheorganizationand
areresponsibleforplanning,organizing,andoperatingtheentity.Theareaof
accountingknownasmanagerialaccountingservesthedecision-makingneeds
ofinternalusers.Financialaccountingandmanagerialaccountinghaveevolved
independentlyoverthedecadestoaddressthespecificneedsoftheusersbeing
servedandthedecisionsbeingmade.
Thehistoryofaccountingisthousandsofyearsold.Accountingrecordscan
betracedbacktotheancientcivilizationsofChina,Babylonia,GreeceandEgypt.
Accountingwasusedtokeeprecordsregardingthecostoflaborandmaterials
usedinbuildinggreatstructureslikethePyramids.Theearlydevelopmentof
accountingiscloselyrelatedtodevelopmentsinwriting,countingandmoney.
Double-entrybookkeepingwaspioneeredintheJewishcommunityoftheearly-
medievalMiddleEastandsubsequentlydevelopedinmedievalEurope.Thissys-
temwasdefinedasanaccountingsysteminwhichtherewasadebitandacred-
itentryforeachtransaction.“Debitum”(Debit)isLatinforIheowesyou’and
“Promeritum”(Credit)isLatinforIhetrustsyou.’Thefirstworkonadouble-en-
trybookkeepingsystemwaspublishedinItaly,byLucaPacioli(titled:Summade
Arithmetica,Geometrica,ProportionietProportionalita).Thetreatisecontained
asectiononbookkeepingentitled“ParticularisdeComputisScriptus”(i.e.com-
putationsandrecords),whichwasseparatelypublishedin1504andtranslated
intomanylanguages.LucaPacioliisconsideredthefatherofaccountingbecause
inhisbookheexplainedthemainprinciplesandmethodsofadoubleentrysys-
temindetail.However,Paciolididnotlayclaimsastheoriginatorofdoubleentry
ashewasonlydescribingwhatItalianmerchantswereusingforover200years.5
Inthemodernworldaccountinghasgotaverywidescopeandareaofappli-
cation.Itsuseisnotconfinedtothebusinessworldalone,butspreadoverinall
thespheresofthesocietyandinallprofessions.Asamatteroffact,accounting
methodsareusedbyallwhoareinvolvedinaseriesoffinancialtransactions.
Thescopeofaccountinghasundergonemanychangesinrecenttimes.Sinceac-
countingisadynamicsubject,itsscopeandareaofoperationhavebeenalways
increasing,keepingpacewiththechangesinsocio-economicenvironment.The
newareasofapplicationofaccountinghaveemerged.Non-financialaspectsof
functioningofcompaniesareexamplesofthenewareasofapplicationofac-
countingsystems.
5E.A.Hendriksen,M.F
.vanBreda,Teoriarachunkowości,WydawnictwoNaukowePWN,War-
szawa2002,pp.53-59,
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