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Book keeping is a part of accounting, therefore its scope is …………… where as scope of accounting is ……………
- Wider, narrow
- Narrow, wider
- More, less
- None of these
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Narrow, wider
Reason — Book-keeping is concerned only with identifying, measuring, recording and classifying financial transactions, so its scope is narrow. Accounting, on the other hand, is a wider term as it also includes summarising, interpreting and communicating the recorded information to interested parties.
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