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1、TheConventionsofContemporaryAccountingAccountingconventionsareconceptsandruleswhichhavebeenacceptedinperformingbookkeepingandaccounting.Itcamefromacarefulobservationofaccountingpracticewhichrevealedpatternsofconsistentbehavior.Theexistenceofconventionswasnotgenerallyrecognize
2、dbyaccountantsuntilthe20thcentury.Theyweredevelopedtoaidaccountantsinexercisingjudgmentandestimationinordertolimitlikelydifferencesinrecordingsimilareventsbydifferentaccountants.Theprincipalconventionofcontemporaryaccountingwillbediscussed.THEENTITYCONVENTIONContemporaryaccou
3、ntingdividesthecommunityintoseparateunitscalled“accountingentities”.Foreachaccountingentityaself-contained,double-entryaccountingsystemisemployed.Transactionsbetweenaccountingentitiesarerecordedintheaccountsofbothentities.Eachaccountingentityinterpretstransactionsfromitsownvi
4、ewpoint.Forexample,thesametransactionmayberecordedasasalebyoneaccountingentityandasapurchasebyanother.Similarly,oneaccountingentitymayrecordatransactionasaninvestment,whiletheotheraccountingentitymayrecorditasacapitalcontribution.Inanyparticularcasetheidentificationoftheaccou
5、ntingentitymaybedifficult.Consider,forexample,thecaseofalargechainofretailstores.Istheaccountingentitythewholebusiness,aregionaloperation,asinglestoreorasingledepartmentinthatstore?Theanswercanbefoundonlybylookingattheorganizationofthebusiness.Ifadepartmenthasitsownaccounting
6、systemandrecordstransactionswithotherdepartments,thenitisanentityforaccountingpurpose.Ifithasnorecords,thenitisnotanaccountingentity.Theaccountingentityis,therefore,identifiedasthesmallestunitofactivitywithaself-containedaccountingsystem。THE“GOINGCONCERN”CONVENTIONContemporar
7、yaccountingassumestheentitywillremaininoperationfortheforeseeablefuture.Thisassumptionisknownasthe“goingconcern”orthe“continuity”convention.Thisassumptiondoesnotrefersimplytoitscontinuedexistence.Italsoassumesthatitwillcontinueinthesamelineofbusinessasthoseinwhichitiscur-rent
8、lyinvolved,Theassumptionofcontinuityismadeintheabsenceofevidencetoth
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