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Accounting Rules – What are the Golden Rules of Accounting?

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Accounting rules are statements that establishes guidance on how to record transactions. As per accounting rules all the accounting transactions should be recorded in the books of entity using double entry accounting method. Double entry accounting method means for each transaction two (or more) accounts are involved, one account shall be debited and the other account shall be credited with the same amount.
 
For example: If a person purchases an asset on credit for Rs. 10,000, then the accounting shall be done by crediting cash and debiting asset account simultaneously with an amount of Rs. 10,000.

Benefits of Accounting Rules:

Accounting rules work as a base for any accounting framework. Before applying accounting principles a person is required to know the basic accounting rules in a transaction which account should be debited and which account should be credited. 
 
Accounting rules are used uniformly by all entities and thus using it results in consistent and comparable financial reports.
 

Accounting Rules of Debit and Credit:

There are rules of debit and credit to record transactions, one is the traditional approach and the other is the modern approach, both the approaches have been defined in detail below:

Golden Rules of Accounting (Traditional Approach):

Golden rules of accounting are the basic accounting rules on the basis of which accounting entries are recorded.

1. Personal Account: 

The rule related to Personal account states debit the receiver and credit the giver. In other words, if a person receives something, receiver’s account shall be debited and if a person gives something, giver’s account shall be credited. 
 
For example, if Mr. X receives cash of Rs. 10,000 from Mr. Y then in the books of Mr. Y, Mr. X will be receiver so account of Mr. X will be debited with an amount of Rs. 10,000. 

2. Real Account:

The rule related to real account states debit what comes in, credit what goes out. In other words, if something comes into business, it shall be debited and if something goes out of business, it shall be credited. 
 
For example: An asset purchased for cash would be accounted as per rules of real account wherein asset is what came into business, so asset account will be debited and cash is something that got out of business, so cash account will be credited.
 

3. Nominal Account: 

The rule related to nominal account states that debit all expenses and losses, credit all incomes and gains. In other words, if any expense or loss is incurred for the business, the expense or loss account shall be debited and if any income or gain is earned in a business, income account or gain/profit account shall be credited.  For example: If salaries are paid to employees then salary is an expense and hence salary account shall be debited. Likewise any rent received shall be credited to rent account as it is an income.

Modern Rules of accounting (Classification of Accounts):

As per modern rules of accounting, the transaction will be categorized into 6 heads or accounts and any increase or decrease in such account will either be debited or credited in the manner shown in the table given below:

Types of Account Account to be        debited Account to be      credited
Assets account Increase Decrease
Liabilities account Decrease Increase
Capital account Decrease Increase
Revenue account Decrease Increase
Expenditure account Increase Decrease
Withdrawal account Increase Decrease

 

For example Mr. X sold goods to B for Rs. 6,000 on credit. In such case, Mr. X will record two accounts, one is B (Debtor Account which is an asset account) and the other is sales (which is a revenue account). In this case since revenue has increased and asset account has also increased, asset will be debited and sales will be credited. Entry will be:
 

B (Debtor) Account Dr. To Sales Account (Being goods sold to B on credit) Hence, it can be concluded that accounting rule is basis of accounting. Once a transaction has been done, it shows how that transaction should be recorded in the books.   

Related Articles:

  • Indian Accounting Standards
  • Income Computation & Disclosure Standards 2018
  • IFRS
  • Accounting Standards

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Taxmann Publications has a dedicated in-house Research & Editorial Team. This team consists of a team of Chartered Accountants, Company Secretaries, and Lawyers. This team works under the guidance and supervision of editor-in-chief Mr Rakesh Bhargava.

The Research and Editorial Team is responsible for developing reliable and accurate content for the readers. The team follows the six-sigma approach to achieve the benchmark of zero error in its publications and research platforms. The team ensures that the following publication guidelines are thoroughly followed while developing the content:

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