Summary of the book Financial Accounting of the course Financial & Management Accounting I. Y1 semester 1. Custom edition from Avans hogeschool, ISBN 9781308572185. Includes slides from classes.
The accounting system collects and processes financial information about an
organization and reports that information to decision makers.
Golden rule of accounting = basic accounting equitation = balance sheet equitation
, The 4 basic financial statements
1. Balance sheet: report the economic resources a company owns, and the
sources of financing for those sources.
2. Income statement: company’s ability to sell goods for more than their cost to
produce and sell.
3. Statement of stockholders’ equity: company’s additional contributions or
payments to investors, and the amount of income the company reinvested for
future growth.
4. Statement of cash flows: company reports its ability to generate cash and how
it was used.
Before you start, ALWAYS make up the heading with those 4 items:
1. Name of entity (Coca-Cola)
2. Title of statement (Balance sheet)
3. Specific date of statement (At December 31, 2012)
4. Unit of measure (in millions of dollars)
Balance sheet
Balance sheet = reports the amount of assets, liabilities and stockholders’ equity of
an accounting entity at a point in time.
Accounting entity = the organization for which financial data is collected.
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