Q. Explain Periodicity assumption of accounting?
As-per to the periodicity (time periods) assumption accountants divide an entity's life into months or years to report its economic activities. Afterwards accountants attempt to prepare accurate reports on the entity's activities for these periods. Even though these time-period reports provide useful and timely financial information for investors and creditors they may be inaccurate for some of these time periods because accountants should estimate depreciation expense and certain other adjusting entries.
Accounting reports cover comparatively short periods. These time periods are typically of equal length consequently that statement users can make valid comparisons of a company's performance from period to period. The length of the accounting period should be stated in the financial statements. For example so far the income statements in this text were for either one month or one year. Companies that publish their financial statements such like publicly held corporations in general prepare monthly statements for internal management and publish financial statements quarterly and annually for external statement users.