Wikipedia:WikiProject Business/Accounting task force

Welcome to the Accounting task force of the Business WikiProject!

Scope
The Accounting task force covers all aspects of accounting, both financial and non-financial and both numerical and non-numerical despite working on manual basis or computerized environment. A particular eye needs to be kept towards a balanced world-view of the subject, as accounting is very dependent upon national regulations and it is easy to write an article with a bias towards the system in one's own country.

Old list, not yet obsolete following change of name:

Participants
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Interested parties

 * ITSecurityGuy (talk) 23:20, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * User:GillesAuriault  9/9/2009             for the Audit pages (especially early history of audit),    and for translating EN into French pages
 * TomEspley
 * Andrew Read
 * Andykoo1990
 * ITSecurityGuy (talk) 23:20, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * User:GillesAuriault  9/9/2009             for the Audit pages (especially early history of audit),    and for translating EN into French pages
 * TomEspley
 * Andrew Read
 * Andykoo1990
 * TomEspley
 * Andrew Read
 * Andykoo1990
 * Andykoo1990

Inviting potential members
If you know of or come across Wikipedia members with an interest in accounting, then and ask them to take a look here (particularly if they can bring an international perspective). Suggested text that can be placed on user talk pages is provided on the talk page. Editors with access to a public or university library are particularly welcome, since they will be well placed to carry out research. Alternatively if you know of any online research sources, please add them to the external links section at the bottom of this page.

You can invite editors to join this project by typing on their talk page. See for further instructions on usage.

Userbox
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Improve the article Accounting
The article Accounting as currently written contains lots of original research that needs to be replaced with verifiable content. To achieve this, it will be necessary to identify books and journals that will provide useful reference material. It will also be necessary to establish a methodology for structuring the article that will enable its contents to be clearly understood by the reader.

Improve related categories
The article Accounting contains many links that are unstructured, and serve little purpose other than to add clutter to the article. These links need to be sorted, and replaced with relevant categories that will enhance the article's appearance.

Related categories, such as Category:Accounting and all its subcategories, need to be reviewed to ensure they are comprehensive and appropriately sorted. Please feel free to add categories that may have been omitted, or add comments about the categories listed below:


 * Costs
 * Financial accounting
 * Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
 * Inventory
 * Management accounting
 * US GAAP

Improve "B" rated articles
Please help improve the following articles particularly if you are a native speaker of the English language and do not plan to make exceptionally "bold" edits. The focus of edits to the following articles is "tweaking" and not radical changes. Articles with average page ratings >= 4.0 and over 100 ratings in each of the four categories (Trustworthy, Objective, Complete and Well-written) by Wikipedia users can be considered to be "B" rated.


 * Debits and credits

Improve articles and stubs
Related articles and stubs, such as those listed in Category:Accounting stubs need to be improved, because these are often basic terms needing clear definition. Please feel free to add articles that may have been omitted or your views about each of the articles listed below:


 * Account (accountancy)
 * Accounting for leases in the United States
 * Accounting Hall of Fame
 * Accounting software
 * Comparison of accounting software
 * Audit
 * Auditor's report
 * Balance sheet
 * Bankruptcy
 * Bookkeeping
 * Bank reconciliation
 * Constant Purchasing Power Accounting
 * Debtor collection period
 * Dividend – see Talk:Dividend/Comments for a task list
 * Differences between managerial accounting and financial accounting
 * Double-entry bookkeeping system
 * Equity disambiguation page needs clarity
 * Equity in income of affiliates could be merged into Ownership equity which should be improved
 * Financial Accounting
 * Financial audit
 * Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
 * Historic cost
 * Imprest system
 * Insolvency (merge into Solvency ?)
 * Insolvency Practitioners Association
 * Institute of Financial Accountants
 * Intangible asset
 * Inventory turnover
 * Investor relations
 * International Financial Reporting Standards
 * ISA 230 Documentation
 * ISA 320 Audit Materiality
 * ISA 400 Risk Assessments and Internal Control
 * ISA 500 Audit Evidence
 * ISA 501 Audit Evidence - Additional Considerations for Specific Items
 * ISA 505 External Confirmations
 * Leasing
 * Liabilities Subject to Compromise
 * List of accounting topics
 * Matching principle
 * Minority interest
 * Net asset value should probably be merged with Collective investment scheme which should probably be expanded.
 * Net assets should probably be a section in the Balance sheet article
 * Netting
 * Preferential creditor
 * Profession - Definition updated with verifiable content 25/06/07 (nice artwork too).
 * Project accounting
 * Purchase ledger
 * Receivership – merge into Receiver (legal) ?
 * Restricted stock
 * Retained earnings
 * Secured creditor
 * Share capital
 * Single-entry bookkeeping system
 * Statutory accounting principles
 * Tax profit
 * Trading statement
 * Unsecured creditor
 * Wealth management
 * Wrongful trading
 * XBRL

Resources

 * Accountancy Overhaul (February 2007) - An archived discussion about improving Accountancy and related articles.
 * Early accounting in Northern Italy: The role of commercial development and the printing press in the expansion of double-entry from Genoa, Florence and Venice. Mills, Mills, Geofrey T., The Accounting Historians Journal, June 1994

Magazines and Journals

 * Abacus:A Journal of Accounting, Finance and Business Studies
 * Academic Journal of Financial Management
 * Accountancy Ireland
 * Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
 * Accounting, Business & Financial History
 * Accounting Education
 * Accounting Times
 * African Finance Journal
 * African Journal of Finance and Management
 * Asian Review of Accounting
 * CA Magazine
 * CMA Magazine
 * Charter: Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
 * Chartered Accountants Journal
 * Credit Control
 * EC Tax Review
 * European Accounting Review
 * The Hong Kong Accountant
 * International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Performance Evaluation
 * Journal of Accountancy
 * Journal of Accounting and Economics
 * Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change
 * Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
 * Journal of Derivatives Accounting
 * Journal of Finance and Management in Public Services
 * Management Accountant
 * Managerial Auditing Journal
 * Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management
 * Review of Accounting Studies
 * Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
 * Schmalenbach Business Review
 * South African Journal of Business Management
 * South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences
 * Southern African Journal of Accountability and Auditing Research