Our lecturer mentioned about this in the early lessons on Principle of Accounts.. If the business transactions are on credit terms with cash payments made later, Would you : 1) record the transactions only when cash change hands ? 2) Or record both : i.e. first the credit transactions and then the cash settlements later whn they occur ? Which will it be ? The answer is 2! For better information an for planning and control : The Realisation Concept identifies a transaction as 'realised' when it gives legal rights to the receipt or payment of money or other asset which can be assessed with reasonable certainty. So when a sale is made a trade debtor (account receivable) is created. When a purchase is made : a trade creditor (account payeble) is created. Accounts are all about records and records. In studying this subject .. apart from losing some hair .. i realise that it's pretty link to the issue of Faith. Many times its hard to come to believe until we have something we c...