Article 4. Accounting objectives

1. Collecting, processing accounting information and data according to subjects and contents of accounting works, accounting standards and accounting regime.

2. Inspecting, supervising revenues, expenditures, debts; inspecting the management, use of assets and sources of assets; discovering and preventing violations against regulations on finance and accounting.

3. Analyzing accounting information and data; advising, proposing solutions for resolving administrative requirements and making of economic, financial decisions of the accounting unit.

4. Providing accounting information and data as prescribed by law.

Article 5. Accounting requirements

1. All economic/financial transactions are fully recorded into accounting records, accounting books, and financial statements.

2. Accounting information and data are recorded in a timely manner.

3. Accounting information and data are recorded in a clear, understandable, and accurate timely manner.

4. Status, nature, contents, and value of economic/financial transactions are recorded truthfully and objectively.

5. Accounting information and data must be continuously recorded from the beginning to the end of every economic, financial activity, from the establishment to the shutdown of the accounting unit; the accounting data of a period must continue that of the previous period.

6. Accounting information and data are classified and sorted systematically in a way that can be compared and verified.