Adjusting
Adjusting is the process of calculating the latest up-to-date balance of each account at the end of an accounting period.
Definitions
According to College Accounting: A Practical Approach by Slater (13th edition),
- Adjusting. The process of calculating the latest up-to-date balance of each account at the end of an accounting period.
Related concepts
- Accounting (alternatively known as accountancy) is management of financial data, information, and knowledge about financial transactions of legal entities. Accountancy tends to include bookkeeping and, depending on a particilar enterprise, may also include quatitative analysis of financial data in the bookkeeping system and/or business intelligence.