ACCT 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sole Proprietorship, Revenue Recognition, Management Accounting

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Assets resources a company owns or controls. External users not directly involved in running the organization. Ex: shareholders, lenders, directors, customers, supplies, regulators, lawyers, brokers, and the press. Internal users those directly involved in managing and operating an organization. Sole proprietorship: business owned by one person which that person and the company are viewed as one entity for tax and liability purpose. Partnership: business owned by two or more people, which are jointly liable for tac and other obligations unlimited liability (usually llc) Corporation: a business legally separate from its owner, meaning it is responsible for its own acts and debts, cc corporation. Shareholders double taxation: income is taxed to business and owners. S corporation does not owe corporate income tax. Accounting constraints: materiality constraint: prescribes that only information that would influence the decisions of a reasonable person be disclosed, cost-benefit constraint: prescribes that only information with benefits of disclosure greater than the cost of providing it be disclosed.

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