ACC 201 Lecture Notes - Financial Statement, Financial Accounting, Income Statement
Document Summary
Accounting is defined as process of collecting, processing and reporting of financial information, to help users of this information making decisions. Collection => it identifies economic occurs, their measurement and their report in a certain way in accounting system. Process => it analyzes, summarizes all the reported economic occurs to present them in a suitable format. Report => it presents information in a suitable format for all its users. Standard format of reports are financial statements, which are: 1. An economic occur is defined as a change in assets proportion or change in property compound of the economic unit. Changes in assets proportion => an increase in property (for example a building purchase which is transacted with debt it will bring an increase in the building active asset and an increase in. Debt liability; or a decrease in property (a debt repayment decrease the cash active asset and decrease the debt too.