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6.2                                                   Double Entry Book Keeping—CBSE XI


                                                  CHAPTER SUMMARY

                     •  An Account is a summarised record of relevant transactions at one place relating to a particular
                       head. It records not only the amount of transactions but also their effect and direction.
                     •  Debit and Credit: Debit and Credit are simply additions to or subtraction from an account. In
                       accounting, debit refers to the left hand side of any account and credit refers to the right hand side.
                       In accounting the abbreviated form Dr. stands for debit and Cr. stands for credit.
                       Both debit and credit may represent either increase or decrease depending upon the nature
                       of an account.

                     •  Traditional Classification of Accounts
                                                  Accounts



                              Personal                                  Impersonal



                          Natural   Artificial  Representative    Real         Nominal (Revenue or Expense)

                     The Rule of debit and credit depends on the nature of an account.

                          Types of Account       Account to be Debited          Account to be Credited
                       1.  Personal Account      Receiver                       Giver
                       2.  Real Account          What comes in                  What goes out
                       3.  Nominal Account       Expenses and Losses            Income and Gains
                     •  Modern Classification of Accounts

                                                           Accounts





                        Asset Account  Liability Account  Capital Account  Revenue Account  Expense Account
                        The Rule of debit and credit depends on the nature of an account.


                                                  RULES FOR DEBIT AND CREDIT
                       Types of Account              Account to be Debited        Account to be Credited
                      1.  Asset Account             Increase   ↑                  Decrease  ↓
                      2.  Liability Account         Decrease   ↓                  Increase  ↑
                      3.  Capital Account           Decrease   ↓                  Increase  ↑
                      4.  Revenue Account           Decrease   ↓                  Increase  ↑
                      5.  Expense Account           Increase   ↑                  Decrease  ↓

                     •  Assets, expenses and losses accounts normally have debit balances; liability, income and
                       capital accounts normally have credit balances.
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