Under this method a company records detailed transactions and reports its net income by summarizing and reporting these detailed transactions. (A different approach is called the capital maintenance approach which determines the amount of net income by examining the change in owner’s equity from the beginning of the accounting period to the end of the accounting period.) Accounting follows the transaction approach.
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