ADM 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Retained Earnings, International Financial Reporting Standards, Legal Personality

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Chapter 1: accounting is the information system that. Identifies and records the economic events of an organization: and communicates them to a wide variety of interested users. It helps users to make decisions: internal users. Accounting information helps to make decisions: whether to purchase a new equipment/ whether to hire new employees/determine the price to sell products, external users. /will the company be able to repay its debts as the debts come due: forms of business organization, proprietorship: a business owned by one person. Disadvantages: unlimited liability / financing may be difficult / limited life: partnership: a business owned by two or more people. Advantages: simple to establish / broader skills and resources / shared financial resources and control. Disadvantages: partners personally liable / transfer of ownership may be difficult / limited life: corporation: a separate legal entity owned by shareholders, public: list and trade their share on public stock exchanges (ex.

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