|  The total business transactions are divided in to three They are  Transactions related to persons, Transactions related to Things,  Transactions related to incomes & expenditures. In accountancy we  have three types of accounts they are - personal, real, nominal  Personal accounts refers to all the transactions related to natural  persons, artificial persons and representative persons ex:- rama, ravi,  Indian bank, outstanding rent. ,. First category of transactions  belongs to personal accounts RULE: debit the receiver and credit the  giver Real accounts include things in the business i.e. assets. Second  category of transactions related to Real accounts ex: buildings,  machinery, cash etc. RULE: Debit what comes in and credit what goes out  Nominal accounts includes all the transactions related to expenditures,  incomes, losses, and profits. Ex: - rent paid, rent received, bad  debts, profit on sale of an asset.
 RULE: Debit all expenses and losses and credit all incomes and profits
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