The document discusses cash accounting and covers several learning goals: (1) describing the basic elements of a financial accounting system and the cash and accrual bases of accounting; (2) using cash basis accounting to analyze transactions in a corporation's first period; and (3) describing advantages and disadvantages of cash basis accounting. Specifically, it provides an example journal entry to record an owner's investment under cash basis accounting and notes that the primary advantage is simplicity while the primary disadvantage is revenues and expenses may not be properly matched.