Wikipedia:WikiProject Business and Economics/Accountancy task force
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Welcome to the Accountancy task force of the Business and Economics WikiProject!
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[edit] Scope
The Accountancy taskforce covers all aspects of accountancy, both financial and managerial. A particular eye needs to be kept towards a balanced world-view of the subject, as accounting is very dependent upon national regulations and it is easy to write an article with a bias towards the system in one's own country.
[edit] Participants
[edit] Interested parties
- Mtmelendez
- H.al-shawaf
- the_undertow
- DWR
- weeman_com
[edit] Objectives
[edit] Improve the article Accountancy
The article Accountancy as currently written contains lots of original research that needs to be replaced with verifiable content. To achieve this, it will be necessary to identify books and journals that will provide useful reference material.
It will also be necessary to establish a methodology for structuring the article that will enable its contents to be clearly understood by the reader, discussion of which has been started on the Talk page.
[edit] Recruit additional editors
If you know of or come across Wikipedia members with an interest in accounting, then and ask them to take a look here (particularly if they can bring an international perspective). Suggested text that can be palced on user talk pages is provided on the Talk page.
Editors with access to a public or university library are particularly welcome, since they will be well placed to carry out research. Alternatively if you know of any on-line research sources, please add them to the External Links section at the bottom of this page.
[edit] Improve related categories
The article Accountancy contains many links that are unstructured, and serve little purpose other than to add clutter to the article. These links need to be sorted, and replaced with relevant categories that will enhance the article's appearance.
Related categories, such as Category:Accountancy and all its subcategories, need to be reviewed to ensure they are comprehensive and appropriately sorted. Please feel free to add categories that may have been omitted, or add comments about the categories listed below:
- Accountancy
- Accounting by country
- Accounting stubs
- Accounting systems
- Costs
- Financial accounting
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Inventory
- Management accounting
- US GAAP
- List of accounting topics
[edit] Improve articles & stubs
Related articles and stubs, such as those listed in Category:Accounting stubs need to be improved, because these are often basic terms needing clear definition. Please feel free to add articles that may have been omitted or your views about each of the articles listed below:
- Account
- Accounting for leases in the United States
- Accounting software
- Audit
- Auditor's report
- Bankruptcy
- Bookkeeping
- Comparison of accounting software
- Debit and credit
- Debits and credits
- Debtor collection period
- Differences between managerial accounting and financial accounting
- Double-entry accounting system
- Double-entry bookkeeping system
- Double-entry system
- Double entry system
- Environmental accounting
- Financial accountancy
- Financial audit
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Imprest system
- Insolvency
- Insolvency Practitioners Association
- Institute of Financial Accountants
- Intangible asset
- Inventory turnover
- Investor relations
- International Financial Reporting Standards
- ISA 230 Documentation
- ISA 320 Audit Materiality
- ISA 400 Risk Assessments and Internal Control
- ISA 500 Audit Evidence
- ISA 501 Audit Evidence - Additional Considerations for Specific Items
- ISA 505 External Confirmations
- Leasing
- Liabilities Subject to Compromise
- Matching principle
- Minority interest
- Netting
- Preferential creditor
- Profession - Definition updated with verifiable content 25/06/07 (nice artwork too).
- Project accounting
- Purchase ledger
- Restricted stock
- Retained earnings
- Sales ledger
- Secured creditor
- Share capital
- Single-entry accounting system
- Statutory accounting principles
- Tax profit
- Unsecured creditor
- Wealth management
- Wrongful trading
- XBRL
[edit] Useful links
- Accountancy Overhaul (February 2007) - An archived discussion about improving Accountancy and related articles.
- Accounting Link Template - Proposed template for linking articles drafted by NilssonDenver which could act as a starting point for structuring the categories and sorting the articles which apear as links in the Accountancy article.
[edit] External links
- Early accounting in Northern Italy: The role of commercial development and the printing press in the expansion of double-entry from Genoa, Florence and Venice. Mills, Geofrey T., The Accounting Historians Journal, June 1994 [1]
- AICPA Journal of Accountancy, online edition[2]
