Principles of Accounting (9593)

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Accounting information is used to support and facilitate decision-making

    Decision-making, Ethics and Financial Statements Analysis

    • Stakeholders and Decision-making

    • Business Ethics

    • Qualitative Characteristics of Useful Financial Information

    • Financial Statements Analysis

    Businesses and Economic Activities

      Representation and Presentation of Economic Activities

        Managerial Accounting for Decision-making

        • Cost-volume-profit Analysis

        • Variance Analysis

        • Capital Investment Analysis

        • Relevant Information for Decision-making

        Representation and Presentation of Financing Activities

          Businesses, Economic Activities and the Accounting Equation

          • Types of Businesses

          • Forms of Business Ownerships

          • Economic Activities

          • Elements of Financial Statements

          • Accounting Equation

          Representation and Presentation of Investing Activities

            Financial Statements

            • Financial Statements: Income Statement

            • Financial Statements: Balance Sheet

            • Financial Statements: Statement of Changes in Equity

            • Financial Statements: Statement of Cash Flows

            Representation and Presentation of Operating Activities

              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 Principles

                Accounting Information System and Accounting Cycle

                  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

                  Accounting Measurements

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