What is the Mercantile accounting System?

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What is the Mercantile accounting System?..

Answer / deepa

Mercantile basis of accounting is nothing but the accrual
basis of accounting. In the accounting revenues are
recognised irrespective of when the cash is received

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What is the Mercantile accounting System?..

Answer / raghunath singbal

It is a system where the entries for income and expenses
are not necessarily for the current financial year but for
a continuous period of time.

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What is the Mercantile accounting System?..

Answer / harsh dave

It refers to that system of accounting n which expenses and
incomes are recorded as and when they incur.it does not
take into account the outstanding/prepaid expenses and
incomes.

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What is the Mercantile accounting System?..

Answer / shreekant

it is nothing but the accrual basis of accounting where
entries are made when the expenses actually incurred and
etries are made after the receipt of material,cash etc.

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