ACCT10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Current Liability, Accounting Equation, Equity Method

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Accounting Week 2
4.1 RECOGNISING BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS
Business Transactions: Occurrences that affect the assets, liabilities and equity items in an
entity and must be recognised (recorded).
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All entities must keep record of business transactions separately from personal
transactions of owner
Entity concept: Separation of business transactions from any personal transactions of the
owner(s).
Drawings: Withdrawals of assets from the entity by the owner(s) that are recorded as
decreases in equity.
Source documents: Original documents verifying the business transaction.
Cash transactions: Business transactions involving the exchange of cash for goods or
services.
Credit transactions: Business transactions involving an exchange of goods and services on
the proviso that cash will be received at a later date.
4.2 BUSINESS AND PERSONAL TRANSACTIONS AND BUSINESS EVENTS
Personal transactions: Transactions of the owner unrelated to the operations of the
business.
Business events: Events that will probably affect the entity without any immediate
exchange of goods and services between the entity and another entity.
4.3 THE ACCOUNTING EQUATION
The accounting equation: Expresses the relationship between the assets controlled by the
entity and the claims on those assets.
Duality: Describes how every business transaction has at least two effects on the accounting
equation.
5.9 PRESENTATION AND DISCLOSURE OF ELEMENTS ON THE BALANCE SHEET
Current assets: Cash and other assets that are expected to be converted to cash or used in
the entity within one year or one operating cycle, whichever is longer.
Non-current assets: Assets not expected to be consumed or sold within one year or one
operating cycle.
Current liabilities: Obligations that can reasonably be expected to be paid within one year
or one operating cycle.
Non-current liabilities: Obligations expected to be paid after one year or outside one
normal operating cycle.
Operating cycle: The length of time it takes for an entity to acquire goods, sell them to
customers and collect the cash from the sale.
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Grouping current/non-current assets and liabilities useful when assessing an entity’s
liquidity
Comparing CA to CL useful in assessing likelihood that entity will be able to pay debts
as they fall due
Asset’s lassifiatio a reflet a assets:
Liquidity
Marketability
Physical characteristics
Expected timing of future economic benefits
Purpose
The following factors can be used to classify liabilities:
Liquidity
Level of security or guarantee
Expected timing of future sacrifice
Source
Conditions attached to the liabilities
Classes: Different types of asset, liability and equity accounts found on the balance sheet.
Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents: Cash held at bank, on hand and in short-term deposits.
Trade and other-receivables: Amounts due from customers for the sale of goods or
services. (often called trade receivables, trade debtors or accounts receivable)
Inventories: Supplies of raw materials to be used in the production process, work-in-
progress and/or the finished goods the entity has available for sale.
Investments accounted for using the equity method: Carrying value of investments in
another entity where the investing entity has the capacity to significantly influence (not
control) the investee entity.
Will only appear if entity owns enough shares in another entity to exert significant
influence over their decision making (not control)
Financial asset: Cash, a contractual right to receive cash or another financial asset, a
contractual right to exchange financial instruments with another entity under conditions
that are potentially favourable, or an equity instrument of another entity calculated as the
excess of the consideration paid for a business over the fair value of the net assets at
acquisition date.
Derivative financial asset: Financial asset whose value depends on the value of an
underlying security, reference rate or index.
Intangible assets: Non-current, non-monetary assets that do not have physical substance.
Identifiable intangible assets: Intangible assets that can be identified (e.g. trademarks,
brand names, patents, rights, agreements, development expenditure, mastheads, licences).
Goodwill: An unidentifiable intangible asset (e.g. an established client base or reputation).
Can only be identified if acquired
Calculated as the excess of the consideration paid for a business over the fair value
of the net assets acquired at the date of acquisition
Receivables: Cash the entity expects to receive from parties that owe it money.
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Business transactions: occurrences that affect the assets, liabilities and equity items in an entity and must be recognised (recorded). Entity concept: separation of business transactions from any personal transactions of the owner(s). Drawings: withdrawals of assets from the entity by the owner(s) that are recorded as decreases in equity. Source documents: original documents verifying the business transaction. Cash transactions: business transactions involving the exchange of cash for goods or services. Credit transactions: business transactions involving an exchange of goods and services on the proviso that cash will be received at a later date. 4. 2 business and personal transactions and business events. Personal transactions: transactions of the owner unrelated to the operations of the business. Business events: events that will probably affect the entity without any immediate exchange of goods and services between the entity and another entity. The accounting equation: expresses the relationship between the assets controlled by the entity and the claims on those assets.

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