Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CONSERVATISM PRINCIPLE
  
  provides that accounting for a business should be fair and reasonable. Accountants are required in their work to make evaluations and estimates, to deliver opinions, and to select procedures. They should do so in a way that neither overstates nor understates the affairs of the business or the results of operation.
  
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