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The Purpose of Keeping Accurate Accounts It is important for a business to create and maintain accurate financial records and to know about the different users of financial information. Every business has to meet internal and external reporting requirements to show its financial health and to meet legal and other requirements. The reasons why businesses therefore keep accurate records are: Assessing its financial position - businesses assess their financial position every year so they know the business is making efficient use of resources to provide the necessary financial return to achieve a profit or suffered a loss, they do this through analysing the cash flow, profit and loss account, and balance sheet. Businesses can find out if it as the ability to generate cash to ensure continued trading and to make dividend payments. This can be done by using figures from the profit/loss account and balance sheet to work out appropriate ratio...

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