Accounting Articulation Shelley Smith MAN104 July 6‚ 2013 Instructor Natalie Rufa Accounting Articulation “You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It’s the language of business and it’s an imperfect language…” – Warren Buffett lan·guage [lang-gwij] noun … any set or system of such symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a number of people‚ who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with one another. If we use
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Reflective Report During the last term‚ i have had learned some knowledge from the subject called introduction to finical accounting. For me‚ this is the first time I had chance to learn this subject‚ before that I just heard some information about IFA by reading the FT newspaper and watching the news. When I start learning that‚ this subject gives me the impression that it is difficult to understand. During the past few months‚ I can say I already mastered some of the skills in IFA. I can still
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1. Accounting is an information and measurement system that: A. Identifies business activities. B. Records business activities. C. Communicates business activities. D. Helps people make better decisions. E. All of these. 2. Technology A. Has replaced accounting. B. Has not changed the work that accountants do. C. Has closely linked accounting with consulting‚ planning‚ and other financial services. D. In accounting has replaced the need for decision makers. E. In accounting is only
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Professional Ethics and financial statement disclosure: In a constructionist perspective Abstract This essay addresses the relationship between professional ethics and financial statement disclosure. The public should change its view on the objectivity of accounting profession because in no means can anyone be absolutely objective. The reason to this will be articulated thoroughly in the essay. Then how to maximize relative objectivity is discussed and
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Financial statements are the medium by which a company discloses information concerning its financial performance. Followers of fundamental analysis use the quantitativeinformation gleaned from financial statements to make investment decisions. Before we jump into the specifics of the three most important financial statements - income statements‚ balance sheets and cash flow statements - we will briefly introduce each financial statement’s specific function‚ along with where they can be found.
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obtain funding‚ you need to convince a lender / investor that your business is more than a hobby. You need to demonstrate that you have a firm grasp of your business‚ the accounting practices that impact your business‚ the controls needed to safeguard assets‚ and which accounting system will produce accurate and relevant financial information. Write a six to eight (6-8) page business plan in which you: 1. Describe the type of business you have created including: a. The product or service‚ and general
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external users 4. FASB – responsible for GAAP (accounting principles) 5. Accounting Equation 6. Know the 3 activities that business engage in and give examples of each activity. (These 4 questions also relate to Chapter 12‚ The Statement of Cash Flows) 7. The International Accounting Standards Board is responsible for developing a single set of worldwide accountings standards (IFRS). 8. These standards will help companies to reduce accounting costs‚ make it easier to acquire foreign companies
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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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I Brief Contents 3 Chapter 1 Introducing Financial Accounting Chapter 2 Constructing Financial Statements Chapter 3 Adjusting Accounts for Financial Statements Chapter 4 Reporting and Analyzing Cash Flows Chapter 5 Analyzing and Interpreting Financial Statements Chapter 6 Reporting and Analyzing Revenues and Receivables Chapter 7 Reporting and Analyzing Inventory Chapter 8 Reporting and Analyzing Long-Term Operating Assets
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