A Poetic Guide to American Accounting - a poem for the concept of American approach of rules of debit and credit

A Poetic Guide to American Accounting

In lands of commerce, 

where profits gleam, 

A system guides the financial stream.

 The American approach,

 a modern sight, 

With rules that govern day and night.

Five categories, 

a framework sound, 

Assets, liabilities, on sacred ground.

 Capital, revenue, expenses too, 

A balance sheet, a financial view.

Increase in assets, a debit's plea, 

Decrease, a credit, freely. 

Expenses rise, a debit's claim, 

Decrease, a credit, just the same.

Liabilities grow, a credit's grace,

 Decrease, a debit, in its place. 

Capital swells, a credit's might, 

Decrease, a debit, takes its flight.

Revenue soars, a credit's cheer,

 Decrease, a debit, dispels its fear.

 These rules, a compass, guiding way, 

Through financial realms, from day to day.