__________________________ Date: _____________ 1. Which financial statement would best indicate whether the company relies on debt or stockholders' equity to finance its assets? A) Statement of Cash Flows B) Retained Earnings Statement C) Income Statement D) Balance Sheet 2. Stockholders' equity A) is usually equal to cash on hand. B) is equal to liabilities and retained earnings. C) includes retained earning and common stock. D) is shown on the income statement. 3. Which of the following activities involves
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of accounting. 3 Explain the reasons for adjusting entries. 4 Identify the major types of adjusting entries. 5 Prepare adjusting entries for deferrals. 6 Prepare adjusting entries for accruals. 7 Describe the nature and purpose of an adjusted trial balance. The Navigator ✓ The Navigator Scan Study Objectives Read Feature Story Read Preview Work Demonstration Problem Review Summary of Study Objectives Answer Self-Study Questions Complete Assignments ■ ■ ■ Read text and answer Before You
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CHAPTER 3 The Accounting Information System ASSIGNMENT CLASSIFICATION TABLE | | | | |Brief | | | |A | |B | |Study Objectives | |Questions | |Exercises | |Exercises | |Problems | |Problems | | | | | | | | | |
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the complexity of its business operations, the chart of accounts may list as few as thirty accounts or as many as thousands. A company has the flexibility of tailoring its chart of accounts to best meet its needs. Within the chart of accounts the balance sheet accounts are listed first, followed by the income statement accounts. In other words, the accounts are organized in the
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process that culminates in the preparation of financial reports on the enterprise for use by both internal and external parties * Users – investors, creditors, managers, unions, and government agencies * financial statements – (1) the balance sheet, (2) the income statement, (3) the statement of cash flows, and (4) the statement of owners’ or stockholders’ equity * president’s letter or supplementary schedules in the corporate annual report, prospectuses, reports filed with government
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Accrual Accounting Concepts The Navigator • Scan Study Objectives • Read Feature Story • Read Preview • Read text and answer Before You Go On p. 169 p. 174 p. 183 • Work Using the Decision Toolkit • Review Summary of Study Objectives • Work Demonstration Problem • Answer Self-Study Questions • Complete Assignments Feature Story What Was Your Profit? The accuracy of the financial reporting system depends on answers to a few fundamental questions. At what point
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Chapter – 1 Introduction to Accounting Origin and history of Accounting can be traced back to some 10,000 years ago. The population in the area known as Mesopotamia, later Persia, and today the countries of Iran and Iraq had an active trading between towns and cities up and down the two rivers started the accounting concepts. At that time there were no letters or numbers. The merchants had to ship their merchandise up and down the rivers. They have to trust the boat man with their goods
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1 Contents Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Financial Statements . . . . Income Statement . . . . . . . . Statement of Retained Earnings Balance
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P R E FAC E THE ACCOUNTING ENVIRONMENT Accounting is the most employable, sought-after major for 2009, according to entrylevel job site CollegeGrad.com. One reason for this interest is found in the statement by former Secretary of the Treasury and Economic Advisor to the President, Lawrence Summers. He noted that the single-most important innovation shaping our capital markets was the idea of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). We agree with Mr. Summers. Relevant and reliable financial
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cycle. T8.Purpose of trial balance. T9.General journal. F10.Posting and trial balance. T11.Adjusting entries for prepayments. T12.Example of accrued expense. F13.Book value of depreciable assets. T14.Reporting ending retained earnings. F15.Post-closing trial balance. F16.Closing entries and Income Summary. F17.Posting closing entries. F*18.Accrual basis accounting. F*19.Purpose of reversing entries. F*20.Adjusted trial balance. MULTIPLE CHOICE—Conceptual
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