A
- Account class
- Accounting
- Accounting principles
- Accounting software
- Accounting system
- Accounts receivable
- Accrual accounting
- Advance payment
- Annual report
- Assets
- Association
- Audit
- Auditor
B
- Bad debt
- Balance
- Balance sheet
- Bank deposit
- Bank reconciliation
- Board
- Bond
- Bookkeeping
- Break-even point
- Budget
- Business
- Business number
- Business plan
C
- Capital
- Cash balance
- Cash flow
- Cash flow budget
- Claim
- Commission
- Conglomerate
- Corporate Identification Number
- Cost
- Cost
- Cost price
- Credit
- Credited invoice
- Credit note
- Creditor
- CRM
- CSV file
- Currency
- Current assets
- Customer
- Customer list
- CV
D
- Deadline
- Debit
- Debiting
- Debt
- Debt collection
- Debtor
- Depreciation
- Deviation
- Dividend
- Documentation
- Double entry bookkeeping
E
- EInvoicing
- EInvoicing
- Electronic archive
- Equity
- Expense
F
- Factoring
- Fee
- Financial accounting
- Financial capital
- Fiscal year
- Fixed assets
- Fraud
- Full-time equivalent
G
- GDP
- General ledger
- General meeting
- Goodwill
- Gross and net
- Gross profit
H
- Holding company
I
- IBAN
- IFRS
- Income
- Income statement
- Incoming invoice
- Inflation
- Intangible assets
- Interest
- Inventory management
- Inventory mangement system
- Investment company
- Invoice
- Invoice number
- Invoice sales
- Invoice scanning
- Invoice software
- Invoice template
- Invoicing
J
K
- Key performance indicator (KPI)
L
- Late fee
- Legal entity/person
- Liquid assets
- Liquidity
M
- Means of payment
N
- Nominal interest rate
O
- Opening balance
- Operating accounting
- Operating assets
- Operating expenditure
- Operating profit
- Outgoing invoice
- Outsourcing
- Overdraft
- Overtime
P
- Packing slip
- Parent company
- Payment ability
- Payment reminder
- Profit
- Profit margin
- Proforma invoice
- Project accounting
- Purchase cost
Q
- Quoting software
R
- Receipt
- Receipt scanning
- Reconciliation
- Reputation
- Return on investment
- Rounding
S
- Salary
- Scrap value
- Shareholder
- Shareholder register
- Shelf company
- Solvency
- Stock
- Supplier
- Supplier credit
- Supplier debt
- Supplier list
- SWIFT
T
- Tax
- Tax deduction
- The result
- Time tracking
- Transaction
- Travel expenses
- Trial balance
- Turnover
U
V
- Variable costs
- Voucher
W
- Wage cost
X
Y
Z

What is Corporate Identification Number

A Corporate Identification Number (CIN), Business Identification Number (BIN), is a unique identification number that every organization is assigned when they register a company.

A Corporate Identification Number (CIN) in India is a unique 21-character alphanumeric code assigned to registered companies by the Registrar of Companies (ROC) during the process of company incorporation or registartion. ROC is part of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA).

The number is used to identify the business in documentation, on invoices, and similar.

What is the purpose of using CIN?

The Corporate Identification Numbers serves the purpose of identifying and distinguishing one company from another and it is a key element of a company’s legal identity in India.

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