This document discusses key accounting concepts and principles known as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). It explains that GAAP provides uniform guidelines for preparing financial statements to ensure consistency and avoid confusion. The major GAAP concepts covered are the separate entity, money measurement, dual aspect, matching and going concern concepts. Accounting conventions like full disclosure and materiality are also summarized. Key accounting principles around assets, liabilities, equity, revenue and expense recognition are defined.
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Accounting concepts and conventions
In drawing up accounting statements, whether they are external "financial accounts" or internally-focused "management accounts", a clear objective has to be that the accounts fairly reflect the true "substance" of the business and the results of its operation.
The theory of accounting has, therefore, developed the concept of a "true and fair view". The true and fair view is applied in ensuring and assessing whether accounts do indeed portray accurately the business' activities.
To support the application of the "true and fair view", accounting has adopted certain concepts and conventions which help to ensure that accounting information is presented accurately and consistently.
Accounting Conventions
The most commonly encountered convention is the "historical cost convention". This requires transactions to be recorded at the price ruling at the time, and for assets to be valued at their original cost.
Under the "historical cost convention", therefore, no account is taken of changing prices in the economy.
Welcome to Module 2 of One day intensive course on Finance for Non finance Managers/Professionals
This course consists of five modules, each dealing with different aspects of financial management.
One of the core elements of financial management is the three financial statements
Module 2 relates to discussion of the Blance Sheet-what is a Balance Sheet and how to read, interpret and use it
An introduction to the three main financial statements using a tree analogy. If you like this, just imagine what I can do in person at your next event. Go to www.geniwhitehouse.com or www.evenanerd.com for more information and my list of topics, expertise, and nerdy obsessions.
My next deck is going to include basset hounds (see my post from 2023). That is a promise.
Accounting concepts and conventions
In drawing up accounting statements, whether they are external "financial accounts" or internally-focused "management accounts", a clear objective has to be that the accounts fairly reflect the true "substance" of the business and the results of its operation.
The theory of accounting has, therefore, developed the concept of a "true and fair view". The true and fair view is applied in ensuring and assessing whether accounts do indeed portray accurately the business' activities.
To support the application of the "true and fair view", accounting has adopted certain concepts and conventions which help to ensure that accounting information is presented accurately and consistently.
Accounting Conventions
The most commonly encountered convention is the "historical cost convention". This requires transactions to be recorded at the price ruling at the time, and for assets to be valued at their original cost.
Under the "historical cost convention", therefore, no account is taken of changing prices in the economy.
This PPT contains all the topics related to Financial Accounting.
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Financial accounting is a specific branch of accounting involving a process of recording, summarizing, and reporting the myriad of transactions resulting from business operations over a period of time.
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2. ACCOUNTING
The process of identifying, measuring
and communicating economic
information to permit informed
judgments and decisions by the users
of account
(or)
Accounting is the art of recording,
classifying, and summarizing in a
significant manner
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3. General Accepted Accounting
Principal (GAAPs)
Accounting is the language of business. Financial
statements prepared by the accountants
communicate financial information to the various
stakeholders for decision making purpose .
Therefore , it is important that financial statement
prepared by the different organization should be
prepared on uniform basis. Also there should be
consistency over a period of time in the preparation
of these financial statements. It every accountant
starts following his own norms and notions for
accounting of different items then there will be an
utter confusion
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4. To avoid confusion and to achieve uniformity,
accounting process is applied within the conceptual
framework of GAAPs.
The term GAAPs is used to describe rules developed
for the preparation of the financial statement and are
called concepts, conventions, principles etc.
The GAAPs are the backbone of accounting
information system, without which the whole system
cannot stand
erectly. These principles are the ground rules, which
defines the parameter and constraints within the
accounting reports are generated
GAAPs is the set of common accounting principle,
standards and procedures
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5. ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES
Accounting principle are a body of doctrine
commonly associated with the theory and
procedures of accounting serving as an
explanation of current practices and as a guide
for selection of convention or procedures
Provides fair image to the company
Provides with different information:
-Revenue recognition
-Balance sheet item classification
-Outstanding share measurements
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6. III MAIN CATEGORIES OF
GAAPs
ASSET: An asset is an item of value
owned by a company
LIABILITIES: In accounting liabilities are
obligations of the company, to
transfer something of value to another
party
EQUITY: Equity is the owner’s value in
an asset (or) group of assets
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7. GAAP PRINCIPLES
The GAAP principles are divided in to two
categories:
1. Accounting Concepts: Accounting
concepts are basic assumptions (or)
conditions upon which science of accounting
is based.
2. Accounting conventions: Accounting
conventions includes those customs and
traditions which followed up by an accountant
while preparing a financial statement.
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8. ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS
Accounting Concepts Includes:
Separate Entity Concept :
It is helpful in keeping business affairs strictly
free from the effect of the private affairs of the
proprietor
Amount invested by the proprietor is shown as
“liability”.
Amount paid for the personal expenses of the
proprietor are shown as drawings from the
capital of the proprietor
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9. Money Measurement Concept :
Only those transaction which can be recorded
in terms of money are recorded
This is being used so as to provide a common
“yardstick” (i.e. money) for measurement
Dual Aspect Concept :
Every business transaction has dual effect i.e. it
affects two accounts
This is on accounting equation:
Liabilities=Asset
Owner’s equity + Outsider’s equity = Assets
This definition can be explained as “for every
debit there is an equivalent credit”.
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10. Matching Concept :
It is the basis for recording expenses and
includes two steps:
Identify all the expenses incurred during
the accounting period.
Measure the expenses and match the
expenses against the revenue earned.
Revenue – cost = Net income (or) profit.
Going Concern Concept :
Business would continue to operate
indefinite in the future .Business will not
cease doing business ,neither; it will sell its
asset to pay off its liabilities
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11. Cost Concept :
Asset and liabilities should be recorded at the historical cost
i.e. costs as on acquisition
Accounting Period Concept :
Accounting period is the span of time, at the end of which
financial statement prepared to throw light on the result of the
operation as the end of a relevant period and the financial
position at the of the relevant period.
Realization Concept :
The revenue principle governs two things:
1. When to record revenue
2. Amount of revenue to record
To recognize revenue must be
Earned : Good are delivered (or) services are performed.
Realize : Cash (or) claim to credit is received in exchange for
goods and services rendered
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12. ACCOUNTING CONVENTIONS
Full Disclosure :
Financial statement should be honestly prepared
and sufficiently, disclose information which is
material interest to proprietor present and potential
creditor and investor
Materiality :
Only material (or) significant details are to be
recorded leaving the insignificant (or) minute
details. This is done to prevent over burning of
account
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