ADM 1340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: General Ledger, Main Source, Current Liability

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Timing issues: companies need immediate feedback on how well they are doing, accounting divides the economic life of a business into artificial time periods. Many transactions affect more than one time period. Sales or performance effort is substantially complete. When merchandise is sold (point of sale) Compare this to how revenue might be recorded for a small convenience store. Due to ordinary activity, a decrease in future economic benefits occurs: related to a decrease in an asset or an increase in a liability. Tied to changes in assets and liabilities: often (but not always) coincides with revenue recognition. Identify some expenses that can be easily matched to revenue and some that aren"t as easily directly matched to the revenue they help produce. Transactions affecting a company"s financial statements are recorded in the period the events occur, rather than when cash is received or paid. Revenue is recorded when earned, rather than when cash is received.

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