This document provides an overview of basic accounting concepts including:
- Forms of business organizations like sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations.
- Accounting activities like financing, investing, and operating.
- Underlying assumptions, qualitative characteristics, financial statements, elements of financial statements like assets, liabilities, equity, income and expenses.
- The accounting equation, debit and credit analysis, the accounting cycle and adjusting entries.
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Nature of Accounting
Accounting is a service activity.
Accounting is the language of business.
Accounting is an art and discipline.
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Accounting Cycle
Also called “accounting process,” this refers to a series of
repetitive activities of recording, summarizing and reporting
economic transactions from the beginning to the end of the
accounting period.
The accounting process involves the following aspects:
1. Identifying
2. Measuring
3. Communicating
Recording
Summarizing
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Adjusting
Entries
• Journal entries which bring some accounts to their current
and correct value.
• It should be made every time financial statements are
prepared.
• It makes possible for the enterprise to report a Financial
Statement in proper amount at the statement date.
• The following adjusting entries are usually made at the end
of the period:
1. Accruals 5. Uncollectible accounts
2. Prepayments 6. Ending Inventory
3. Precollections 7. Bank account
4. Depreciation and amortization reconciliation
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Perpetual
vs.
Counter-
Balancing
Errors
Perpetual Accounting Errors
These errors are non-counter balancing errors because
if they are not corrected, they will continuously affect the
current accounting period and will continue to exist in
subsequent accounting periods.
Counter-Balancing Errors
These errors are self-correcting errors because if not
corrected in the first year and second year, they will
automatically be corrected in the third year.