September 13, 2011
Financial accounting: rules/regulations for the compilation of financial statements provided for eternal users
External users: -creditors, Suppliers, government, employees, investors, customers, financial, analysts\
International financial reporting standards (IFRS) starting 2011
Three different types of businesses * Sole Proprietorship : business owned by one person * Partnership : business owned by 2 or more people * Corporation : entity that is separate from the owners * Public Companies : Needs to use International financial reporting standards * Private companies
Financial Statements * Balance Sheet / Statement of Financial position * Statement of comprehensive income * Income statement : Private companies * Other comprehensive income : Needs to use international financial reporting standards * Statement of changes in equity * Statement of retained earnings : private companies * Changes in share capital * Other components * Cash flow statement * Notes
Annual Report: Mandatory for public companies * Letter to shareholders * Non-financial information * Financial information
Balance sheet * Financial results at a point in time * Has three categories * Resources : * Assets * Sources: * Liabilities * Equity * Share capital * Retained earnings * Other components * * Statement of comprehensive income * Income Statement * Statement of changes in equity * Retained earnings * Beginning Retained Earnings * Add: net income * Less: Dividends * Ending Retained earnings
Cash flow Statement * Net cash flow from operating activities * Net cash flow from investing activities * Usually long term assets * Net cash flow from financing activities * Debt and equity financing * Net Change in cash * Add: beginning cash * Less: ending Cash
P.16 in text book exhibit 1.6
Price earnings ratio * Price earnings = market price/Earnings per share
* Purchase price = price earnings ratio X Earnings per share
September 15 2011
Primary objective – IFRS * Provide useful information about the business to help external parties make sound economics financial decisions.
Assumptions * Economic entity assumption * Ever economic entity can be separately identified and accounted for. * Personal items of owners are not accounted by the business * Monetary unit * Each business reports its financial statements and results in terms of the national monetary unit * Only items expressed in monetary terms are included * Continuity or Going Concern * The business will continue to operate enough to carry out its existing objective
Principles * Cost/historical cost principle: * The asset or liability is recorded at the cash equivalent cost required at the date of the transaction
A transaction * Exchange of an economic resources resulting from a past event * 2 types of transaction * External event * Internal event
Chart of accounts
Balance sheet
Resources:
Assets * Cash, inventory, accounts receivable, prepaid assets, buildings, equipment, patents
Current assets: assets that will be converted into cash or used up within the upcoming year
Non- current assets: all others
Sources: * Liabilities: A/P, wages payable, interest payable, Mortgage payable, bonds payable, * Deferred/unearned revenue
Current liabilities: amount owed in the upcoming year
Non-current liabilities: all others
Shareholders’ equity: * Contributed capital * Share capital/Capital stock * Cash received in exchange for