What is the meaning of Accounting?
-- What is the meaning of Accounting? The Committee on Terminology set up by the American Institute of Certi ed Public Accountants formulated the following de nition of accounting in 1961: “Accounting is the art of recording, classifying, and summarising in a signi cant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least, of a nancial character, and interpreting the result thereof.”