Financial Accounting and Budget Accounting: What is the Relationship? With the implementation of the new accounting system, the accounting work will calculate by the new accounting system in the process of development. At the same time, the relationship between budget accounting and financial accounting will become a problem that accountants need to think about. The thesis analyzes the characteristics and relationship between financial accounting and budget accounting. To make relevant personnel deepen their understanding of the new accounting system and provide corresponding guidance for accounting work. In the process of accounting for economic business, it is necessary to have a certain understanding of the budget and financial situation of each economic business and to grasp the characteristics of the two.
Here are the articles to explain, financial accounting, and budget accounting, with their relationship in accounting systems.
Introduction
Budget accounting refers to accounting based on the cash-in-receipt system. Which implements accounting for all income and expenses incurred during the budget execution process when economic business occurs. Its main role is to reflect and supervise the implementation of budgetary revenue and expenditure. . Financial accounting refers to the accounting of economic business or events based on the accrual system. Which mainly reflects and supervises the financial status, operation, and cash flow of economic entities. With the introduction of the concepts of “budget accounting” and “financial accounting” in the new accounting system. The contents of budget accounting and financial accounting have been clarified.
However, budget accounting and financial accounting are based on the same subject. Budget accounting Entries and financial accounting entries reflect the same economic business and the same economic activity. Therefore, there will be partial duplication between the two, and the specific accounting levels of budget accounting and financial accounting. As well as the relationship between the two in practice, need to accurately grasp. Therefore, this article analyzes and discusses the relationship between financial accounting and budget accounting.
Characteristics of Budget Accounting and Financial Accounting
Basic Features of Budget Accounting
Budget accounting refers to the accounting of the process and results of budgetary fund activities, reflecting and supervising accounting management activities. The main feature is the accounting performed on statutory budget funds. The basic characteristics of statutory budget process control play a decisive role in the characteristics of budget accounting. Which mainly reflect in the following points.
Features Part 01
Expenditure mainly reflects budget execution. After the budget is approved by the National People’s Congress, it has a statutory nature. Therefore, the first goal of budget accounting is to carry out the accounting of various funds and to supervise. Whether various funds are spent according to the amount, purpose, and type stipulated in the budget.
Features Part 02
Specificity mainly reflects the special purpose of budget funds. The allocated funds have special purposes in the process of implementing the budget. If they do not approve by the statutory budget, they cannot use for other projects or used in a coordinated manner, or convert and disposed of. Under the new accounting system, budgetary income subjects are mainly based on the expenditure function classification and economic classification of the “Government Revenue and Expenditure Classification Subjects”, and the detailed subjects are set accordingly. The balance of budget funds will be carried forward according to the detailed subjects and items. The above are It reflects the specificity of budget accounting.
Features Part 03
Tree structure budget accounting mainly reflects the budget management of the accounting subject. And the problem that should pay attention to is the flow process of budget funds. From the perspective of an accounting firm, the flow from budgetary income to budgetary expenditure is a one-way flow process. And the inflow of various budgetary fund incomes into various fund expenditures requires the classification of detailed accounts.
Features Part 04
Externality Budget accounting mainly reflects the unit’s budget management activities. And accounting information is mainly reflected in the will and requirements of external management. The specific accounting scope and content of budget accounting will affect by fiscal policy. In the process of budget accounting reform, the main driving force is the reform of the financial and economic system. In the process of accounting, the setting of budget accounting subjects and fiscal policy must always be consistent with fiscal revenue, expenditure management, and classification. Based on the above analysis, budget accounting mainly reflects the management of economic activities.
From the perspective of income, budget appropriation is the main source of funds in unit economic activities, and all economic activities are mainly dependent on the budget in the process of development. From the perspective of expenditure, it must implement strictly by the approved budget, and it not allow to adjust and change without permission. Budget accounting is not only the accounting of financial appropriations of funds. There are clear requirements in the “Financial Rules for Public Institutions” that public institutions need to include all pre-receipts in the budgets of each unit, and implement unified accounting and management.
Features Part 05
Public institutions need to include all expenditures in the unit’s budget. At the same time, the establishment of a sound expenditure management system can implement a comprehensive budget system. So that various sources of income for public institutions can be within the scope of budget management. Budget management must reflect the information of overall budget management. Therefore, some scholars divide the budget into two types: statutory budget and unit internal budget.
A statutory budget specifically refers to the revenue and expenditure plan corresponding to financial appropriation after the approval of legal procedures. It is an important basis for the government and institutions to obtain financial revenue and generate financial expenditure. The unit’s internal budget specifically refers to a series of overall plans that specifically reflect the unit’s operating, capital, financial and other aspects of income, expenditure, and cash flow within a certain period. The main purpose is to make the unit’s decision-making goals concrete, systematic, and Quantitative, it is a very important part of the unit’s financial management activities.
In the internal budget management process of the unit, it is mainly to fully reflect the subjectivity, and the budget unit must give full play to the subjective initiative in terms of income and expenditure. From the perspective of public institutions, the comprehensive budget is not only statutory but also an internal budget. Therefore, budget accounting must be based on budget management and reflect budget execution. For funds from different sources, different accounting methods need to apply according to the different requirements of budget management.
Basic Features of Financial Accounting
Financial accounting specifically refers to the comprehensive and systematic accounting and supervision of the capital movement of the accounting subject, mainly to provide economic information management activities such as the company’s various financial conditions, profitability, financial performance, and cash flow. Financial accounting mainly reflects the financial situation and performance of the accounting subject and is based on the accounting subject’s benefits. According to the “Financial Rules for Public Institutions”, the main tasks of financial management are to strengthen economic accounting, implement effective performance evaluation, and improve the efficiency of the capital application.
Features Part 01
Profitable financial accounting is the accurate accounting and supervision of the economic process of investment assets. The main goal is to reflect the income, and the focus is on the benefits that the economy can generate. It does not pay attention to the process of expenditure but pays attention to the generation of expenses, and Compensation for expenses is of great concern.
Features Part 02
Risk Financial accounting can reflect risk factors well in accounting and supervision. Rationalized estimates of some assets, income, liabilities, and expenses are implemented, and based on rigor, there will be no overestimation or underestimation of various funds. Financial accounting usually carries out corresponding asset impairment, bad debt provision, estimated liabilities, equity method accounting of investment, etc.
Relationship between Budget Accounting and Financial Accounting
Budget accounting and financial accounting are a whole
The specific scope of budget accounting and financial accounting is consistent, including the accounting of all funds. However, there are differences in emphases and perspectives between the two. Budget accounting is a tree structure, while financial accounting is a pie structure. Budget accounting and financial accounting can visualize and concretize with a single leaf. It is like the veins of a leaf. The petiole represents all sources of overall budget funds——budget revenue. The veins represent various budget expenditures.
The veins can cover the entire leaf, thus clearly reflecting the actual situation of budget management. . Financial accounting is like a whole leaf. The veins bring various resources to form the entire leaf surface. Which are the front and back sides and the mesophyll, which mainly reflects the overall liabilities of the assets. As far as the overall level of budget accounting and financial accounting is concerned. There are not only connecting parts between them but also corresponding distinguishing parts, thus forming a complete system.
Budget accounting mainly reflects external control and is dominant; financial accounting mainly reflects internal control and is comprehensive
Budget accounting management plays a leading role in economic activities. Therefore, budget accounting mainly implements accounting and supervision. The rationalized management of external legal funds specifically covers the control of the economic activity process, the expenditure control of economic activities, and the control of the special application of funds. Financial accounting mainly implements comprehensive management of internal funds, the overall liabilities, and the operating costs of the unit. Under the leadership of budget accounting, and then through financial accounting, the cost-benefit calculation is carried out to effectively improve the management effect and asset management level.
Epilogue
To sum up, with the reform of the new accounting system, the relationship between budget accounting and financial accounting in the accounting system is gradually changing. Financial accounting measurement elements can be rationally integrated into budget accounting management so that the connection between the two will close. There are both similarities and differences between budgetary accounting and financial accounting. In the process of economic activities, budget accounting is mainly to control the outside, and has a leading effect. Financial accounting is mainly to implement internal control, and it mainly has a comprehensive effect.
