ACCTG 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Income Statement, Profit Maximization

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How much things cost, and how you can use that to make business decisions. Statement of operations: income statement: tells you what happened during a period of time. Cost of sales: the cost it takes to make what they sell. Balance sheet: tells you how much cash you have right now. Short term marketable securities: cds and bonds that expire within 6 months. Investors, creditors, customers, suppliers, government agencies, and labor unions. Investment decisions, stewardship evaluation, monitoring activity, and regulatory measures. Tells a person whether they want to invest in the company. Produces information for internal users, such as managers, executives, and workers. Identifies, collects, measures, classifies, and reports financial and nonfinancial information to internal users in planning, controlling, and decision making. The objective of profit maximization should be constrained by the requirement that profits be achieved through legal and ethical means. Ethical behavior involves choosing actions that are right, proper, and just.

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