Accounting Concept and Principles

Accounting Concepts and Principles are a set of broad conventions that have been devised to provide a basic framework for financial reporting. As financial reporting involves significant professional judgments by accountants, these concepts and principles ensure that the users of financial information are not mislead by the adoption of accounting policies and practices that go against the spirit of the accountancy profession. Accountants must therefore actively consider whether the accounting treatments adopted are consistent with the accounting concepts and principles.

In order to ensure application of the accounting concepts and principles, major accounting standard-setting bodies have incorporated them into their reporting frameworks such as the IASB Framework.

Following is a list of the major

accounting concepts and principles:

• Relevance
• Reliability
• Matching Concept
• Timeliness
• Neutrality
• Faithful Representation
• Prudence
• Completeness
• Single Economic Entity Concept
• Money Measurement Concept
• Comparability/Consistency
• Understandability
• Materiality
• Going Concern
• Accruals
• Business Entity
• Substance over Form
• Realization Concept
• Duality Concept