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GAAP: What It Is and Why Your Investors Expect It

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The components of GAAP can be broken down into two main categories: accounting procedures and reporting standards. On the accounting side, GAAP requires specific methods for recording transactions, such as double-entry bookkeeping, which involves debiting one account while crediting another in order to maintain accuracy in recording data.

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What Accounts Are Debit and Credit?

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At any point, the total of the entries on the left side of the trial balance (debits) will equal the total of the entries on the right side (credits). A trial balance includes all accounts from the balance sheets and profit and loss statements. An increase in credits will increase the balance in a revenue account.

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