Accounting is a profession.
This is because:-
a "scientist" works using the scientific technique - observes, forms a hypothesis and tests the validity of the hypothesis experimentally and publishes the method and results for others to check.
an "artist" works using imagination and creativity to produce objects (music, literature, painting, films, dance, entertainment).
an "accountant" takes facts and orders them into tables and manipulates them using well proven mathematical techniques. Therefore while a valid and honorable profession, the basic job of everyday accountancy does not require hypothesis and experimentation or imagination and creativity.
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Accounting is a science.
Accounting is an art as well as a science.
Art is the technique which helps us achieve our desired objective. Accounting is an art of recording, classifying and summarising financial transactions. It helps us in achieving our objective of maintaining proper accounts, i.e. , to know the profitability and financial position of the business.
Any organised knowledge is based on certain basic principles in a 'science'. Accounting is also a science. It is an organised knowledge based on certain basic principles.
Accounting is only scientific in theory and practice.
If someone is quickly efficient and the numbers balance, the "perspective" is that they're artistic...
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Finance: Art or Science ?Posted by Md.Salim Ansari on Monday, January 18, 2010Lawrence J. Gitmanhas defined finance as 'an art and science of managing money'. It implies that finance is Bothart and science. Finance is a matured science since it provides knowledge as to how and at what time a firm should invest to outstrip other firms.On the other hand, finance is also an art. In modern time, finance has become more analytical. The new financialtheories have been developed. Many data have been developed to prove these theories right or wrong. the financial mangers should examine the differentalternatives related to the raising and managing money. they should formulate the models to predictthe results obtained from the use of any one alternative.In this way, the new theories, models and methods havemade finance scientific. But the financialtheories cannot be accurately compared with the 'Scientific Method' that applies to physicsscience. Physics predicts as to what happens from an action. for example, physics says that if a ball is thrown upward, that eventually falls down. This is not true in finance. For example, the financial analyst can predict from the historical trend that the rate of interest will change in a definite pattern. But, in reality, the rate of interest may change in different pattern. Despite this, financial guidelines and theories are useful in financial decisionmaking. But any decision should be made by mixing those guidelines with self-skill. According to R.A. Stevenson, in modern time finance is a 'scientific art'. He opines 'finance is the science of knowing how to predict financial consequences and the art of knowing when to act'. It assists the financial managers of today to avoid the difficulties of tomorrow.
i think its both an art and a science
why you say surveying is an art and science
Art and Science
Financial accounting is an art and a science. ÊThe art of accounting is recording, reporting, and analyzing. Finance is the area that is being studied in accounting.Ê
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Criminology is science. What is called, 'Art' is actually good intelligence combined with much training and experience.
cartography
Cartography.
Management is considered as an art due to the resources it own like finance,human resource,Marketing, etc and This is called Science "How you Utilize these resources" As the management of an online wholesaler online,have to maintain all the inventories of all things it offering to the customer its an ART,and how effectively It chooses the suppliers and the deliver the things to the customer is a Science
It is an art as it can not be a science.
Finance: Art or Science ?Posted by Md.Salim Ansari on Monday, January 18, 2010Lawrence J. Gitmanhas defined finance as 'an art and science of managing money'. It implies that finance is Bothart and science. Finance is a matured science since it provides knowledge as to how and at what time a firm should invest to outstrip other firms.On the other hand, finance is also an art. In modern time, finance has become more analytical. The new financialtheories have been developed. Many data have been developed to prove these theories right or wrong. the financial mangers should examine the differentalternatives related to the raising and managing money. they should formulate the models to predictthe results obtained from the use of any one alternative.In this way, the new theories, models and methods havemade finance scientific. But the financialtheories cannot be accurately compared with the 'Scientific Method' that applies to physicsscience. Physics predicts as to what happens from an action. for example, physics says that if a ball is thrown upward, that eventually falls down. This is not true in finance. For example, the financial analyst can predict from the historical trend that the rate of interest will change in a definite pattern. But, in reality, the rate of interest may change in different pattern. Despite this, financial guidelines and theories are useful in financial decisionmaking. But any decision should be made by mixing those guidelines with self-skill. According to R.A. Stevenson, in modern time finance is a 'scientific art'. He opines 'finance is the science of knowing how to predict financial consequences and the art of knowing when to act'. It assists the financial managers of today to avoid the difficulties of tomorrow.
Erm...more of an art.
pedagogy or education The art of teaching is called pedagogy. There is also a pseudo-science called educationism by its critics, which is practiced - if that is the right word for a pseudo-science - by educationists called administrators. The fond notion that what these people do is a science has caused most of the problems in American schools.
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i think its both an art and a science