Accounting is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end. It performs the service activity by providing quantitative financial information that helps the users in making better business decisions. Accounting also describes and analyses the mass of data of an enterprise through measurement, classification, and summarization, and reduces that data into reports and statements, which show the financial condition and results of operations of that enterprise. Accounting as an information system collects processes and communicates information about an enterprise to a wide variety of interested parties

Accounting is a major means of helping managers of an organization, equity investors of an organization, potential equity investors, creditors and bond holders of an organization, potential creditors and bond holders of an organization, suppliers and customers of an organization and other stake holders to take decisions.

Accounting refers to the process of bookkeeping that are involved in making the financial records of business transactions. These Bookkeeping methods are also used in preparation of statements concerning the assets, liabilities and operating results of a company. It is a very important process in an organization. The information derived from the accounting processes gives complete financial information about the company and conveys its financial standing to the owners and employees of the company. It also shows which products or assets of the company are most profitable and those which are weak. Day to day bookkeeping on the accounting principles, helps in keeping record of daily transactions and also helps in preventing any frauds.