Review of Accounting Fundamentals The Accounting Equation Assets = Liabilities + Equity Equity = Contributed Capital + Retained Earnings Retained Earnings = Beginning Retained Earnings + Net Income for the Period – Dividends Net Income = Revenues – Expenses + Gains – Losses Assets ( Probable future economic benefits obtained or controlled by a particular accounting entity as a result of past transactions or events Liabilities ( Probably future sacrifices of economic benefits
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------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1 Accounting and the Business Environment Short Exercises (5 min.) S 1-1 Revenues increase owner’s equity by delivering goods or services to customers. Expenses decrease owner’s equity by using up assets or increasing liabilities in order to deliver goods or services to customers. (5 min.) S 1-2 1. The banker is an external user of financial information. 2. The financial statement that would provide the best information
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Since the barrage of scandals in the early 2000’s‚ regulatory bodies like the Federal Accounting Standards Board (FASB)‚ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)‚ and law reform like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 have worked to improve the standards and principles used in accounting and financial reporting. The FASB is “the designated organization in the private sector for establishing standards of financial accounting that govern the preparation of financial reports by nongovernmental organizations‚”
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QUESTIONS FOR MID-TERM EXAM 1. All the users of interested parties (users of information) have equal possibility/rights/power to get company’s financial information. Do you agree with this statement (give you arguments)? How financial statements are useful to the various interested parties (users of information)? Financial accounting’s aim is to allow all the users of interested parties to understand firm’s situations in global and synthetic way. The financial statement produce information
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The role of accounting is to allow business owners to make informative decisions. The main objectives of accounting are to maintain a record of business transactions‚ calculate profit and loss and depiction of financial position. Recording business transactions accurately is essential in accounting. If proper and complete records are kept‚ it will make it easier to find and correct any errors made. Different officials can also use records for different decision-making purposes. A balance sheet
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1 ACCOUNTING 1 (ACN101- M) STUDY UNIT 1: THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF ACCOUNTING DEFINITION: • • • Accounting can be defined as the orderly & systematic recording of the monetary values of financial transactions of a business The reporting of results Providing financial information as a basis for decision making 3 main processes define the accounting process: 1. IDENTIFYING: Selecting evidence of economic / financial activity (transactions) 2. RECORDING transactions to provide a permanent
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16. Which of the following federal officials is a "principal" of the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program who considers and approves or disapproves accounting and reporting standards recommended by the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board? A. Chair of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board. B. Secretary of the Interior. C. Comptroller General. D. All of the above. Content: Concept Level: Easy Wilson - Chapter 12 #16 17. FASAB has identified four major
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Subject: Submission of Term Paper on “Partnership Accounting”. Dear Madam‚ It is an honor for us to submit the `Project Report’ on “Partnership Accounting” which is prepared as a partial requirement of the course named “Accounting Principles (F- 103)” of BBA program under Department of Finance of the Faculty of Business Studies‚ University of Dhaka. The main objective of study to help the student to have a clear concept about partnership accounting and give the idea of theoretical and mathematical
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Purpose of Accounting Accounting is a service activity. Its function is “to provide quantitative information‚ primarily financial in nature‚ about economic entities that is intended to be useful in making economic decisions in making reasoned choices among alternative courses of action” (Raiborn‚& Watson 2003). The main purpose of accounting focuses on the preparation of pertinent financial reports‚ which will give internal and external parties the essential information that is needed to access
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ACCT TEST 1. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a corporation? a. Corporations are organized as a separate legal taxable entity. b. Ownership is divided into shares of stock. c. Corporations experience an ease in obtaining large amounts of resources by issuing stock. d. A corporation’s resources are limited to its individual owners’ resources. e. Corporations make up 20% of all businesses. 2. An entity that is organized according to state or federal statutes
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