Accounting for Law Students and Practitioners

Download or read book Accounting for Law Students and Practitioners written by Sheeda Kalideen and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few professions are free of the need to understand accounting, least of all the legal profession. Legal accounting is a category all on its own, because attorneys are expected to keep trust accounts for most of their clients, deal with conveyancing and understand the issues around shared accounts -- whether at a corporate or domestic level. This book deals with the fundamentals of accounting, such as debits and credits and how income statements and balance sheets are created. The book also takes you through the transfer journal, bank reconciliations, VAT, correspondent accounts, accounting in conveyancing matters, legislation applying to attorneys' accounting and partners' capital accounts. Easy-to-understand examples clearly explain the principles involved.