01.undrstading financial accounting
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By Ghanendra Fago
(MBA, M Phil)
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Unit -I:
Understanding fundamentals of Financial Accounting
y Forms of business organization
y Types of Business
y Business and Accountingy Accounting information,
y Book Keeping Vs. Accounting,
y Users of Accounting Information
y Means of Accounting informationy Functions of accounting
y Branches of Accounting
y Career in accounting
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Assignment and Project Worky Group Assignment I:
Understanding Annual Reports and its Contents of a
Listed Company
Individual assignment I
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Types of Business
y Manufacturing
y Merchanding/Trading Companies
y Services
y Hybrid companies
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Forms of Business Organization
ySole Proprietorship/ Trading ,
yPartnership Firm,
yJoint Stock Company and
yOthers like cooperative, non-profitmaking etc.
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Users of Accounting Information
y Ultimately, all accounting information is accumulated to helpsomeone make decisions Like company president, a production
manager, a hospital or school administrator, a sales manager, a
shareholder, a small-business owner, a politicianthe list is almost
infinite.
y Almost all managers in every organization are better equipped to
perform their duties when they have a reasonable grasp of
accounting data.
y For example, a knowledge of accounting is crucial for decisions by
government agencies regarding research contracts, defense
contracts, and loan guarantees.
y In fact, a survey of managers ranked accounting as the most
important business course for future managers.
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sers of Accounting InformationExternal users
y Creditors and Suppliers
y Tax authorities
y Regulatory bodies
y Economics Planners
y Government
y Customers
y Shareholders and Investors
y Employees and Workers
Internal users Managers, CEO, BODS, Supervisors
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Means of Accounting Information
y Income Statement,
y Balance Sheet,
y Statement Of Changes In Equity
y Statement Of Changes In Retained Earnings,
y Statement Of Cash Flow,
y Management Disclosure and Analysisy Notes
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Characteristics of InformationyRelevance: Timely, Neutral, prediction,
Feedback
yReliable : Faithful, Verifiable and Neutral
yComparability: Different companies withsame accounting principles
yConsistency: Follows same accountingmethods from year to year
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Constraints of Accountingy Materiality GAAPs does not have to follow small
values
yConservatism When Doubt choose the solution that
will be least likely to overstate assets and incomes
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Assumptions in Accountingy Monetary assumption: Things than can be expressed be
recorded in accounting.
y Separate entity: Every economics activities can beseparately identified and accounted for creditors,
shareholders, customers
y Time period assumption: Life of a business can bedivided into artificial time period that will be normally for
year. Monthly, quarterly, reports to shareholders andmonthly statements for internal purpose.
y Going concern assumption: will remain in operationsfor the foreseeable future.
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y Dual Aspect Principle: Every transaction has twofold effects. This is also foundation of double entry
systemy Matching principle: Cost and expenses of a particular
period mush be matched with the revenues generatedfor the period to determine net income and loss.
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Accrual accounting principle: It assumes that allrevenues are recorded as revenues of the periodwhether they are received or not. Similarly, Cost arerecorded as cost whether they are paid or not.
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Introduction to Accounting
y Process of identifying, measurement, classifying,
recording, summarizing and interpretation of the
transactions of a business in terms of money to
ascertain the result and financial position of businessactivities of particular period.
Ultimately, all accounting information is accumulatedto help someone make decisions. That someone may bea company president, a production manager, a hospital
or school administrator, a sales manager, a shareholder,a small-business owner, a politicianthe list is almostinfinite.
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increased scope of accounting with increase in the
competition and business complexities.
Almost all managers in every organization are
better equipped to perform their duties when they
have a reasonable grasp of accounting data.
For example, a knowledge of accounting is crucial
for decisions by government agencies regarding
research contracts, defense contracts, and loan
guarantees.
In fact, a survey of managers ranked accounting as
the most important business course for future
managers.
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Accounting Process/Function
Identification
Recording
Communication
Select economic events
Record Classify and Summarize
Prepare reports and analyze
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Branch of Accounting
y Financial Accounting
y Cost Accountingy Management Accounting
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Cost Accountingy Accumulates, classifies and interprets costs to use in
performance evaluation and decision-makingy Deals primarily with the accumulating cost data
needed by the management to control the currentoperations and plan for future.y Provides accurate and timely information needed to
help the business and control costs.y Generally, both financial accounting and
management accounting use costs accumulated andclassified by the cost accounting for external andinternal purposes.
y Traditionally, cost accounting focused inmanufacturing cost only but at present it is also usedin non-manufacturing concerns for cost control.
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Financial Accounting
y Concerns with the preparation of financial statements
and reports like income statement and balance sheets of
specific periods for external users to show the financial
position of the company.y A summarized form of the overall financial position of
company. It provides information for external users like
shareholders, creditors, suppliers, government etc.
y Develops information for external decision makers like
shareholders, creditors, government, suppliers etc.
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Objectives of financial accounting
y To keep systematic records of financial transactions
y To ascertain the results of operations
y To reveal the overall financial positions of organization
y To report past performance and future prospects
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Management Accounting
y Branch of accounting, which is concerned with supplying
relevant information to managers at appropriate time to
enable them to take decisions in organization.
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Process of accounting, which generates accountinginformation from both financial accounting and cost
accounting and provides essential accounting information to
all departments concerned.
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Process of identifying, measuring, analyzing, interpretingand communicating accounting information to department
concerns to meet organizational goals and objectives.
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Objectives f M gement cc nting
y Providing information to the managers the for decision making andplanning in revenue and cost projection of organization
y Assisting managers in interpretation of financial data that are not
understand by internal users
y Assisting managers in directing and controlling operations through its
attention in their function
y Motivating managers toward the achievement of organization's goals
y Measuring the performance of managers, subunits and employees
within organization
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Assessing the organizations competitive position, and working withthe other managers to ensure organization's long term
competitiveness
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Career in Accountingy Financial accountant,
y Cost accountant,
y Management accountant,y Internal auditor,
y Account system designer,
yTax accountant,
y Statutory auditors,
y Tax consultants etc..
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Accounting bodiesyACCA, CA, CPA
y ICWA, CIMA, IMA, ICA