ACCO 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Retained Earnings, Dividend, Accounting Information System

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Acco 310 chapter 3 notes the accounting cycle & adjustments: The purpose is to understand the accounting cycle and how to prepare basic journal entries and financial statements. This is really a review your comm 217 so make sure you are really up to speed here . The accounting cycle is a series of steps, which are repeated every reporting period. The process starts with making accounting entries for each transaction and goes through closing the books. You don"t necessarily need to memorize the steps but do understand them, as you would apply them intuitively. During the accounting period, as each transaction occurs: * post to general ledger (t-accounts in our case) At the end of the accounting period, you must prepare the following: * adjusted trial balance (to include effects of adjusting entries) * closing entries (to close income statement (i. e. nominal/temporary) accounts and dividends (if not debited to re directly)

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