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- 1Managerial accountinginformation provided for internal users
- 2financial accountinginformation provided for external users
- 3A=L+SEassets = Liabilities + Shareholder Equity
- 4assetsresources for the company
- 5LiabilitiesCreditors' claims to resources
- 6A-L=SE L=A-SE A=L+SEassets-liabilities = shareholder equity
liabilities = assets - shareholder equity
assets = liabilities + shareholder equity - 7Assets(resources)
- 8Liabilities(creditors' claims)
- 9stockholders' equityowners' claims
- 10All profits of the company are claimed byStockholders
- 11Profit =Revenue - Expenses
- 12profit is often referred to asnet income
- 13revenue =sales of products or services to customers
- 14expenses =costs of selling products or services
- 15dividendsdistribution of profit to stockholders
- 16Revenues - Expenses =Net Income
- 17What is required to create a record of activities for a companyaccurate records of the company's assets, liabilities, stockholder's equity, revenues, expenses, and dividends
- 18The resources of a company are referred to asassets
- 19Assetsresources of the company that will benefit future operations. they include items such as cash, inventory, supplies, buildings, and equipment.
- 20the amounts recorded when the company sells products or provides services to customers are referred to asrevenues
- 21Types of business structuresSole proprietorship: business owned by one person
Partnership: business is owned by two or more persons
Corporation: business is legally separate from its owners (limited liability of stockholders) - 22Business ActivitiesFinancing activities: transactions the company has with investors and creditors
Investing activities: transactions involving the purchase and sale of resources that provide benefit for several years
Operating activities: transactions that relate to the primary operations of the company - 23What compares revenue and expenses for the current period to assess the company's ability to earn a profit from running its operationsIncome Statement
- 24Stockholders' Equity =Common Stock + Retained Earnings
- 25Common Stock Retained EarningExternal Source
Internal Source - 26What is used to present the financial position of the company on a particular dateBalance sheet
- 27Financial position is characterized asResources = Claims to resources
- 28Revenues and Expenses are reported on which financial statementIncome statement
- 29Which financial statement reflects assets = liabilities + Stockholders' equityBalance sheet
- 30Which financial statement measures activities involving cash receipts and cash payments over an interval of timeStatement of cash flows
- 31what are operating cash flowscash transactions involving revenues and expenses
- 32what are investing cash flowscash transactions involving the purchase and sale of long-term assets
- 33what are financing cash flowscash transactions involving lenders and stockholders
- 34Cash collected from a customer would be recorded as which type of activity in the statement of cash flowsOperating Activity
- 35Operating ActivitiesIncludes revenue and expense transactions.
- 36All transactions that affect revenues or expenses reported in the income statement ultimately affectThe balance sheet through the balance in retained earnings
- 37Investors & Creditors make their decisions based onFinancial accounting information
(Should be based on formal standards) - 38GAAPGenerally Accepted Accounting Principles
are the rules of financial accounting - 39Independant, private body that has primary responsibility for the establishment of GAAP in the USThe Financial Accounting standards board
(FASB) - 40Role of AuditorsTrained individuals hired by a company as an independent party to express a professional opinion of the extent to which financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP
Add credibility to company financial statements - 41What are the objectives of financial accountingFinancial accounting should provide information that:
1. is useful to investors and creditors in making decisions
2. helps to predict cash flows
3. tells about economic resources, claims to resources, and changes in resources and claims - 42Independent parties that help a. Investors and creditors in their decisions by adding credibility to the financial statements b. Ensure management has appropriately prepared the company's financial statementsAuditors
- 43accounting information in order to be considered relevant has to haverelevance and faithful representation
- 44Assumptions that underlie GAAPEconomic entity
Monetary unit
periodicity
going concern - 45What GAAP underlying assumption states that the economic life of an enterprise can be divided into artificial time periods for periodic financial reportingPeriodicity
- 46What are the functions of financial accounting1. measure business activities of the company. record transactions
2. communicate measurements to external parties for decision making. Prepare financial statements - 47What are the six steps in measuring external transactions1. use source documents to identify accounts affected by an external transaction.
2. analyze the impact of the transaction on the accounting equation.
3. assess whether the transaction results in a debit or credit to account balances.
4. record the transaction in a journal using debits and credits.
5. post the transaction to the general ledger.
6. prepare a trial balance. - 48Define AccountSummary of all transactions related to a particular item over a period of time.
- 49Define Chart of accountsA list of all account names used to record transactions
- 50Cash, Supplies, and equipment are examples ofAsset accounts
- 51Accounts payable, Salaries payable, utilities payable, and taxes payable are examples ofLiability accounts
- 52Common stock and Retained Earnings are examples ofStockholders' equity accounts
- 53If total assets increaseliabilities or stockholders' equity increases by the same amount
- 54If total assets decreaseliabilities or stockholders' equity decreases by the same amount
- 55Assets have to?Always equal liabilities plus stockholders' equity
- 56what is the effect on total assets if a company purchased land for $200,000 cash?There would be zero effect on total assets
one asset (land) would go up and another asset (cash) would go down. balancing out to zero - 57After Each transaction what must happen with the accounting equationIt must always remain in balance
- 58The expanded accounting equations demonstrates that:1. Revenues increase retained earnings
2. Expenses decrease retained earnings
3. Dividends decrease retained earnings
(Retained earnings is a component of stockholders' equity) - 59Deferred Revenues createLiability
company owes service for cash collected from the customer for services not yet provided - 60What effect does payment of dividends have on the accounting equationpayments of dividends causes the cash account (which is an asset) to decrease and also causes retained earnings (which is an equity account) to decrease. payment of dividends decreases both assets and equity
- 61Debit meansleft side
- 62credit meansright side
- 63the effect of debit and credits on account balances aredifferent depending on the type of account being used. sometimes a debit increases an account balance and sometimes it decreases an account balance.
- 64Journal:provides a chronological record of all transactions
- 65journal entry:format used for recording transactions
- 66Revenues increaseretained earnings
- 67Expenses decreaseretained earnings
- 68Dividends decreaseretained earnings
- 69Deferred revenues creates blank when it comes to the accounting equationa liability
- 70what effect does the payment of dividends have on the accounting equationAssets decrease and equity decreases
- 71debit and credit effects on accounts in the basic accounting equationAssets = Debits /\ credit \/
liabilities = debit \/ credit /\
stockholders' equity = debit \/ credit /\ - 72left side - assetsincrease with debits
- 73right side - liabilities and stockholders' equityincreases with credits
- 74left side - assetsdecrease with credits
- 75right side - liabilities and stockholders' equitydecrease with debits
- 76debit meansleft side
- 77journalprovides chronological record of all transactions
- 78journal entryformat used for recording transactions
- 79debit amount equalscredit amount
- 80postingprocess of transferring the debit and credit information from the journal to individual accounts in the general ledger
- 81general ledgerprovides in a single location the list of transactions affecting each account and the account's balance
- 82T-accountsimplified version of general ledger account
includes the account title at the top, left side for recording debits, and right side for recording credits - 83what account would be debited when a company pays $12000 in advance for one year of rentPrepaid rent
- 84Trial BalanceA list of all accounts and their balances at a particular date
shows that total debits equal total credits
assists in preparing adjusting entries
used for internal purposes only
not published to external parties
not required to follow an order of listing - 85what account would appear in the credit column of a trial balancecommon stock
- 86ch3
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- chp1& 2
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- Dante Simmons · ene 2017
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- 18 ene 2017
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