Finance:Momentum accounting and triple-entry bookkeeping

Momentum accounting and triple-entry bookkeeping is an alternative accountancy system developed by Japanese academic Yuji Ijiri and is the title of his 1989 monograph. It is a proposed alternative to double-entry bookkeeping(the method favored by the worldwide financial accounting system).

There are changes with regular double-entry bookkeeping that include balances, earning revenues, and collecting cash. These events are recorded with two entries, usually a debit and a credit, assigned on a given date. In momentum accounting, changes in balances are the recognized events.

Example

An acceleration in revenue earning, such as a $1,000 per period increase of revenues from $10,000 per month to $11,000 per month, is a recordable event that would require three entries to implement.

Sources

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• Ijiri, Y. (1988), "Momentum accounting and managerial goals on impulses.’ Management Science, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 160–166.
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• Ijiri, Y. (1986), "A framework for triple-entry bookkeeping." The Accounting Review, Vol. 61, No. 4, 1986, pp. 745–759.
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• Yuji Ijiri, Triple-entry bookkeeping and income momentum, Studies in Accounting Research, Vol. 18., American Accounting Association, Sarasota, 1982.
• Eric Melse, "Momentum Accounting for trends. Relevance, explanatory and predictive power of the framework of triple-entry bookkeeping and momentum accounting of Yuji Ijiri." VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010, ISBN:978-3-639-16051-2.
• Eric Melse, "Accounting for trends. Relevance, explanatory and predictive power of the framework of triple-entry bookkeeping and momentum accounting of Yuji Ijiri." Dissertation, Maastricht University, 2008, ISBN:978-90-902210-5-2.
• Melse, E. (2008), Accounting in three dimensions. A case for momentum revisited. The Journal of Risk Finance, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 334–350
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• Tuğrul Bozbey, "Çift Yanlı Kayıt Yönteminin Diferansiyel Temelleri Üzerine Dayanarak İkiden Çok Yanlı Kayıt Tutma Yönteminin Geliştirilmesi" (in Turkish) Dissertation, Selçuk University, 2006, (Dissertation no: 189419) (https://tez.yok.gov.tr/UlusalTezMerkezi/giris.jsp)

Topics

• Melse, E. (2009-10-28), Triple Entry and Momentum Accounting (TEMA) – Video in Dutch. Masterclass.
• Melse, E. (2009-10-28), TEMA analysis of Lehman Brothers – Video in Dutch. Masterclass.

External links

• Warren Henke Triple Entry Accounting