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Plan
Restart the course at the beginning
Read the chapters from the book for more complex topics
Device an algorithms for every possible accounting report
Do the exercises at the end of chapters
Key concepts
Income Statement
Statement of Financial Position
Statement of Cash Flows
Breakeven point (Ratios?)
Unit product cost
Variances (annual vs per month?)
Variance report for management
Revision
Users of Accounts:
Shareholders and Analyst Advisers
Lenders (Assets and the company's cash positions)
Suppliers and other trade creditors
Customers
Government Agencies such as tax authorities
Public
Basic terms: (Assets + Expenses = Liabilities + Equity + Income)
Income -- Total revenue of a business (even if they have not received the money for it yet)
Expenses -- Costs incurred in running a business (even if they have not yet been paid)
Assets -- Items owned by the business which will bring economic benefits
Liabilities -- Amounts a business owes to a third party
Equity -- Capital, the assets of a business less its liabilities to third parties
Profit -- Income less expenses
Income Statement:
First step
Statement of Financial Position:
First step
Statement of Cash Flows:
First step
6.
Financial Accounting
Definition:
Information on business performance
Targeted outside the business (Shareholders)
Required by Law
Income Statement, Statement of Financial Position, Statement of Cash Flows
Flow:
Double-Entry Bookkeeping (Chapter 3)
Preparation of the 3 main reports (Chapters 4-5)
Ratios (Chapter 9)
Bookkeeping: (Double Entry)
Preparation of basic accounts
Every transaction holds receiving and giving of the value and is therefore recorded twice
For every transaction there must be a debit and a credit entry
These entries are equal and opposite
Accounts paid in are recorded on the debit side and paid out are on the credit side
Cases:
Management Accounting
Definition:
Information on business performance
Targeted internal business decisions (by managers)
Cost Accounting and Decision making
Flow:
Double-Entry Bookkeeping
Preparation of the 3 main reports
Ratios (Chapter 9)
Reports: -
Cases: