Explain the difference between the accrual basis of accounting and the cash basis of accounting? What are the major reasons f

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1. Explain the difference between the accrual basis of accounting and the cash basis of accounting?
2. What are the major reasons for accrual accounting? How are revenues and expenses defined under accrual accounting?
3. What is an audit in the context of financial accounting?
4. Explain the double-entry accounting system and the duality concept. How are they related?
5. The HC method, which uses unadjusted historical costs, does not take into account depreciation expenses, purchasing power, and unrealized gains in replacement value. Despite these weaknesses as a financial reporting method, the HC method is used more frequently for accounting purposes than other methods, such as the HC-GPL, CV, and CV-GPL methods. Why is this so?
6. Define and describe the purpose of fund accounting (now called net assets).