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# Account

Accounts in Stellar Plus are represented in a few different ways that abstract the complexity of managing Stellar keypairs and signing capabilities, integrating directly with the transaction pipeline in a seamless way.  They can be categorized as the following:

* **Base:** The simplest representation of an account, it is initialized by a 'Public Key' string. Cannot perform any changes or approve transactions.
* **Account Handler:** Management representation of an account, can sign and authorize transactions for a given account. These can be extended to implement custom key management pipelines that integrate directly with the library capabilities.

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Tip: Depending on the arguments provided when initializing an Account, extra helpers will be made available in the instance of that account. See[Broken mention](broken://pages/BN64nn2vkF4xu56U3w3x) for further information.
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