Prepared By Sara Toynbee October 18 2013 Exam I Study Guide Disclaimer The following guide is intended to provide a brief overview of some of the material that we have covered up until October 17 2013 in ACCTG 215 This is not intended to provide a comprehensive overview of all material that could be examined in Exam I I encourage you to read the textbook on your own and also attempt the not required practice problems on Connect Doing practice problems is very important and helpful in accounting Chapter 1 Financial Statements and Business Decisions What the four financial statements are what they show and how are they related to each other balance sheet income statement statement of stockholders equity cash flow statement Balance sheet reports economic resources a company owns and the source of financing for the resources Income statement reports the company s ability of selling products for more than the cost of the production Statement of Stockholders Equity reports the transactions between shareholders additional contributions or payments of investors and amount of income the company reinvested for the future growth Cash flow statement reports a company s ability to generate cash and how it was used Different elements accounts of financial statements and what they are e g assets liabilities equity revenues expenses Asset Economic sources which owned by a company Liability The amount of financing for the company s resources provide by creditors or lenders Equity The amount of financing economic resources provided by owners of the business and reinvested earnings Revenues Amount of money that expected to receive from customers by providing goods or services that have been delivered to the customers Expenses The dollar amount of resources that a company used to earn revenue Which accounts go on which financial statement look at the examples in the textbook to get used to different account names and where they are reported e g see page 131 Connect also has a lot of examples in the not required exercise problems see exhibit 2 3 on page 48 for common account names Various terminology what they stand for and what they are do o GAAP General Accepted Accounting Principles measurement and disclosure rules used to develop the information in financial statements o IFRS International Financial Reports Standards issued by IASB o SEC Security and Exchange Commission The US government agency that determines the financial statements that public company should provide to stockholders and the measurement rules that they must use in producing those statements o FASB Financial Accounting Standards Board a private sector given the primary responsibility to work out the detailed rules that become GAAP o IASB International Accounting Standards Board Prepared By Sara Toynbee October 18 2013 o PCAOB Public Company Accounting Oversight board a private sector given the primary responsibility to issue detailed auditing standards for independent auditors CAPs Preparing financial statements given the required information and or trial balance Difference between current assets and non current assets same for liabilities Assets probable future economic benefits owned by an entity as a result of past transactions Current asset assets that will be used or tuned into cash within one year Ex Cash Short term investment Account receivable Inventory Supplies Prepaid Expense Non current asset include long term asset equipment property and intangible asset Ex PP E Investment in other companies trademarks patents Liabilities probable future sacrifices of economic benefits arising from present obligation of an entity as a result of past transactions Current liability obligations that will be settled by providing cash or other current assets within one year Non current liability Key equations o A L SE o Net Income Revenues Expenses o Stockholders Equity Contributed capital Retained Earnings o Ending RE Beginning RE Net Income Dividends Chapter 2 Investing and Financing Decisions Exhibit 2 4 on page 55 gives an overview of how the accounting cycle works and the different steps involved from analyzing transactions to preparing financial statements Transaction 1 External Transaction exchanges of assets or services for assets services or promises to pay between other business 2 Internal Transaction measurable internal event such as adjustment for the use of assets in operations P S Making a contract or order some supplies are NOT Transactions Recording external transactions o Determine the account amount and direction how does this affect the accounting equation o Determine whether to debit or credit affected accounts debits on the left credits on the right see the figures in textbook and notes for how each account is increased decreased with a debit credit hopefully this is easy by now o Record journal entries remember debits credits Journal Entry recording transactions using debits and credits o Post transactions to the ledger T accounts T account a tool for summarizing transaction effects for each account every journal entry links to two or more T accounts o Prepare a trial balance Trail balance aggregates the ending balances of all T accounts the final step before making balance sheet Key equations Prepared By Sara Toynbee October 18 2013 o o Debits Credits Current ratio Current Assets Current Liabilities measures the ability of a company to pay its short term obligations with short term assets higher current ratio more cushion a company has to pay its current liabilities if future economic conditions take a downturn Chapter 3 Operating Decisions Operating income operating revenue operating expenses e g page 103 o Sale of goods or services operating revenue Revenue increase in assets or settlements of liabilities from ongoing operations o Cost of goods sold COGS salaries wages rent insurance operating expenses Expenses outflows of using the up assets or increases in liabilities from ongoing operations incurred to generate revenues not all cash expenditures are expenses but expenses are necessary to generate revenues o Depreciation expense allocates the cost of assets over their useful lives When a company uses buildings and equipment to generate revenues a part of cost of these assets is reported as an expense called Depreciation Expense Income tax if firms make a profit they have to pay tax last item on income statement before net income Provision for income tax Cash vs Accrual accounting o GAAP requires accrual