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Edexcel IGCSE·Accounting·IGCSE Accounting

The Accounting Equation

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Assets, liabilities and capital, and the accounting equation that always balances.

Accounting records and reports a business's financial transactions, all built on one equation.

Assets, liabilities and capital

  • Assets: what the business owns (cash, inventory, premises, trade receivables).
  • Liabilities: what it owes (loans, trade payables).
  • Capital: what the owner has invested.

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