Explain the types of accounts

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For accounting treatment , accounts are broadly classified into three types as personal account , real account and nominal account or fictitious account. They are as follows:

The account which is related with a person or organization ( entity ), is termed as personal account. Here person means natural persons like Anna , Olivia , James etc and organization represents the artificial persons created by law. The rule for debit and credit for personal accounts is ;

Debit : The receiver

Credit : The giver

The account which is related with assets or property is known as real account. Land and building , plant and machinery, and furniture and fixtures are the examples of the real account. Properties or assets are either incoming or outgoing from the organization. The rule for real account is ;

Debit : What comes in

Credit : What goes out

The account which is related to expenses or loss and income or gain is known as nominal account. Rent , wages , salary , discount , interest and commission are the examples of nominal account. The rule of nominal account is;

Debit : the expenses or losses

Credit : the income or gains

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Explanation:

3 Different types of accounts in accounting are Real, Personal, and Nominal Account. Real account is then classified into two subcategories – Intangible real account, Tangible real account. Also, three different sub-types of Personal account are Natural, Representative, and Artificial.

PERSONAL ACCOUNT:

These accounts types are related to persons. These persons may be natural persons like Tom’s account, Sam’s account, etc.

These persons can also be artificial persons like partnership firms, companies, bodies corporate, an association of persons, etc.

There can be personal representative accounts as well.

Rule for this Account

REAL ACCOUNT:

These account types are related to assets or properties. They are further classified as Tangible real account and Intangible real accounts.

1.Tangible Real Accounts

These include assets that have a physical existence and can be touched. For example – Building A/c, cash A/c, stationery A/c, inventory A/c, etc.

2.Intangible Real Accounts

These assets do not have any physical existence and cannot be touched. However, these can be measured in terms of money and have value. For Example  – Goodwill, Patent, Copyright, Trademark, etc.

Real Account Rules

NOMINAL ACCOUNT:

These accounts types are related to income or gains and expenses or losses. For example: – Rent A/c, commission received A/c, salary A/c, wages A/c, conveyance A/c, etc.

Rules

There are some other accounts in accounting as well:

Cash Account – This account is used for keeping the records of payments done by cash, withdrawals, and deposits.

Income Account – The Purpose of this account is to keep the record of the income sources of business.

Expense Account – This account tracks the expenditure of the business.

Liabilities – If there is any debt or loan then that amount comes under liabilities.

Equities –  If there is an investment of the account owner or common stocks, retained earnings then these will fall under equities.

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