Principles of Accounting (9593)

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Decision-making, Ethics and Financial Statements Analysis

  • Stakeholders and Decision-making

  • Business Ethics

  • Qualitative Characteristics of Useful Financial Information

  • Financial Statements Analysis

Managerial Accounting for Decision-making

  • Cost-volume-profit Analysis

  • Variance Analysis

  • Capital Investment Analysis

  • Relevant Information for Decision-making

Businesses, Economic Activities and the Accounting Equation

  • Types of Businesses

  • Forms of Business Ownerships

  • Economic Activities

  • Elements of Financial Statements

  • Accounting Equation

Financial Statements

  • Financial Statements: Income Statement

  • Financial Statements: Balance Sheet

  • Financial Statements: Statement of Changes in Equity

  • Financial Statements: Statement of Cash Flows

Financing and Investing Activities

  • Shareholders’ Equity

  • Long-term and Short-term Borrowing

  • Property, Plant and Equipment

  • Acquisition of assets

  • Depreciation

  • Revaluation of assets

  • Impairment of assets

  • Sale of assets

Operating Activities

  • Income and Expenses

  • Inventories

  • Trade Receivables and Other Receivables

  • Trade Payables and Other Payables

  • Cash on hand and Cash at Bank

Correcting Accounting Errors and Re-construction of Accounts

  • Correcting Accounting Errors

  • Incomplete Records

  • Incomplete Records: Capital comparison method

  • Incomplete Records: Accounts analysis method

  • Incomplete Records: Financial ratios method

Accounting as a Measurement System

  • Accounting Principles

  • Accounting Information System and Accounting Cycle

  • Double-Entry Recording

  • Measuring Economic Activities

Cost Measurement, Job-costing and Budgeting

  • Measuring Costs of Products, Services and Other Cost Objects

  • Cost Flow in a Manufacturing Business

  • Normal Job-costing System

  • Budgeting

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