ACC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Retained Earnings, Deferral, Financial Statement

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Financial accounting: accounting to provide useful economic information for external decision makers (investors, banks) Information must be: relevant (provides feedback on a timely basis) & reliable (verifiable), comparable. Order of financial statements: 1) income statement, 2) statement of stockholder"s equity/retained. Earnings, 3) balance sheet, 4) statement of cash flows. Structure: 1) name of entity (business), 2) title of statement, 3) date/time period of statement, 4) unit of. Balance sheet: purpose is to report the financial position of an accounting entity at a particular time. Basic accounting equ/balance sheet equ: a = l + se. Assets: economic resources owned by a company, listed in order of liquidity (cash, acc receivable, Current assets: cash, acct receivable, supplies, prepaid expenses. Liabilities: company"s debts or obligations, listed in order of maturity (acct payable, notes payable) Stockholder"s equity: indicates the amount of financing provided by owners of the business and earnings.

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