The Accounting Possibilities for Digital Currency
Economics & Management
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Abstract
Cryptocurrencies are the newest kind of virtual money. Today there is a problem of cryptocurrency accounting and interest in its solution by the Big 4 auditing firms and business. Cryptocurrencies do not fit the definition of existing asset types and can therefore be classified as a new form of asset, – digital asset.
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