ACCT 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Faithful Representation, Gross Profit, Accrual

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Provides information on an organisations profitability for a period of time. It matches revenues during a period against expenses incurred in earning the revenues. Sales (revenue) cogs = gross profit. Shows the changes during the period in one balance sheet account, namely cash. Shows the receipt of cash and the payment of cash. Individual transactions are normally split into the follow categories. Operating activities: provision of goods and services. Investing activities: acquisition and disposal of certain noncurrent assets. Financing activities: changing the size and composition of the financial structure of the entity. Demands on the quality of financial accounting information. Financial statements need to contain information that is useful to those who are making the decisions (relevance) Financial statements should not be deliberately misleading (faithful representation) Preparing financial statements costs money and takes time (materiality) There needs to be some standard against which an accounting method or number can be judged (gaap)

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