Real, Personal and Nominal Accounts: There are mainly three type of accounts in accounting: Real,
Personal and Nominal accounts, personal accounts are classified under three
subcategories: Artificial, Natural and Representative. If you fail to identify
an account correctly as either a real, personal or nominal, in most
cases, you will get the journal entries incorrect.
1. Real AccountsAll assets of a firm, which are tangible or intangible, fall under
the category “Real Accounts“.
Tangible real accounts are related to things that can be touched and felt
physically. A few examples of tangible real accounts are building,
machinery, stock, land, etc.
Intangible real accounts are related to things that can’t
be touched and felt
physically. A few examples of such real accounts are goodwill, patents,
trademarks, etc.