Financial Accounting ACCT212 – Week 1 Live Lecture Goals of this Week’s Lecture • Present you with the information you need to begin succeeding in Financial Accounting • Provide a forum for question and answer regarding this week’s material • Begin satisfying our weekly TCO and key concepts ACCT212 Week 1 Lecture 2 How to be Successful? • All the information you need to be successful in this course comes from four primary sources: 1. 2. 3. 4. Your textbook eCollege This lecture, and
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There are four basic financial statements that are used in everyday life. These statements are used on many different scales and many different levels of use. The four basic financial statement sheets that are widely used are (1) An income statement (2) A retained earnings statement (3) a balance sheet (4) A statement of cash flow. An income statement shows the revenue a company made over a specific time period. Usually a company would want to know the yearly totals, so an income statement
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Income Statement becomes the top line of the Cash Flow Statement. 2. Second, you add back non-cash expenses from the Income Statement (and flip the signs of items such as Gains and Losses). 3. Third, you reflect changes in operational Balance Sheet line items – if an Asset goes up, cash flow goes down and vice versa; if a Liability goes up, cash flow goes up and vice versa. 4. Fourth, you reflect Purchases and Sales of Investments and PP&E in Cash Flow from Investing. 5. Fifth
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objectives After studying this chapter, you should be able to: 1 Identify the sections of a classified balance sheet. 2 Identify and compute ratios for analyzing a company’s profitability. 3 Explain the relationship between a retained earnings statement and a statement of stockholders’ equity. 4 Identify and compute ratios for analyzing a company’s liquidity and solvency using a balance sheet. 5 Use the statement of cash flows to evaluate solvency. 6 Explain the meaning of generally accepted accounting
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Definitions It seems fitting to begin with a more formal definition of accounting: Accounting is a set of concepts and techniques that are used to measure and report financial information about an economic unit. The economic unit is generally considered to be a separate enterprise. The information is reported to a variety of different types of interested parties. These include business managers, owners, creditors, governmental units, financial analysts, and even employees. In one way or another
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Problem set # 1: Receivables and inventory Refer to the annual report of Tata Motors (company, hereafter) for the year ended March 31, 2014 and answer the following questions. 1. What amount of trade and other receivables is reported on the balance sheet? 2. What is the total (gross) amount owed to the company for trade and other receivables? 3. What amount of trade receivables from customers, does the company expect to eventually collect? How does this compare to last fiscal year? 4. Can you
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The balance sheet shows the financial position of an organisation at a given point in time. The balance sheet consists of assets, liabilities and equity. An asset is something that is controlled by the organisation that will generate future economic benefits. A liability is an obligation to transfer economic benefits always from the business to third parties other than the owners of the business such as suppliers or for loans. Equity is the relationship between the shareholders, who are the owners
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Though a balance sheet is not formally required for most small business reports or even taxes, it can be helpful in determining the overall health of a company. Without an understanding of basic accounting principles, it may be overwhelming to think of creating a balance sheet or any other financial report. However, balance sheets can be quite simple for a small business owner to create and can even be generated automatically by most online or traditional accounting software. Ads by Google
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Case 12-02 To Recognize or Not to Recognize, That Is the Question Shakespeare Inc. (“Shakespeare” or the “Company”) is a privately held book printing and publishing company with a December 31 year-end. The summary balance sheet as of December 31, 2010, included: Current assets Noncurrent assets Total assets Current liabilities Noncurrent liabilities Total liabilities Total shareholder equity $ 6,500,000 28,250,000 $34,750,000 $ 4,500,000 13,750,000 $18,250,000 $16,500,000 The summary results of
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holding period determines where investments in securities appear in the balance sheet. Securities that firms expect to sell within the next year appear as “Marketable Securities” in the Current Asset section of the balance sheet. Securities that firms expect to hold for more than one year from the date of the balance sheet appear in “Investments in Securities,” which firms include in a separate section of the balance sheet between Current Assets and Property, Plant and Equipment. When a company
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