Value of Accounting for a Social Enterprise
Accounting is the systematic recording of an enterprise’s economic transactions and activities. It is also the language of business. Accounting for a small social enterprise is equally as important for large enterprises. Reliability and relevance of accounting records is important to effectively manage a small social enterprise. It helps guide the entrepreneurs of small enterprises to dispense decisions for the improvement of the enterprise. An unreliable accounting record is detrimental to the health and well being of the social enterprise. As an analogy, it is difficult for a driver to know where he or she is going if the windshield is dirty. An accident is bound to happen. This can be compared to an entrepreneur naively relying on an unreliable accounting record. Decisions premised on unreliable accounting records would definitely result in unfavorable consequences. Accounting is the langua...