Consistency
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Consistency is the accounting principle that requires companies to follow the same accounting methods or procedures from period to period.
Definitions
According to College Accounting: A Practical Approach by Slater (13th edition),
- Consistency. The accounting principle that requires companies to follow the same accounting methods or procedures from period to 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.
