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OBJECTIVESOBJECTIVES
Define Accounting, service business and proprietorship
Advantages and disadvantages of accounting Understand Assets, liabilities and owner’s equity State the accounting equation
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Accounting: (Definition) planning, recording, analyzing, and interpreting financial information
Language of Business
What is Accounting ?
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Helps managers make better business decisions Controls spending
Inaccurate accounting records can lead to business failure and bankruptcy
Failure to understand accounting can result in poor business decisions
Advantages
Disadvantages
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Accounting TermsAccounting Terms
accounting: planning, recording, analyzing, and interpreting financial information
accounting system: a planned process for providing financial information that will be useful to management (for making decisions)
accounting records: organized summaries of a business’s financial activities
financial statements: financial reports that summarize the financial condition and operations of a business
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Chapters 1 – 8 Chapters 1 – 8
In Chapter 1 – 8 sample in PowerPoints are:Accounting records for a proprietorshipAccounting records for a service businessCompany Name is: Techknow ConsultingService provided: help setup and troubleshoot computer networks
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Types of BusinessesTypes of Businesses
Service business: a business that performs an activity for a fee
installing a network
not a tangible product - (can’t necessarily touch or feel it or carry it away) example: hair cut
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Business StructuresBusiness Structures
What is a proprietorship? proprietorship: a business owned by one person
Note: owner’s must keep personal accounting records separate from business records
Illegal not to
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Business StructuresBusiness Structures
What are three advantages?Ease of formation, total control, non-shared
profits What are the disadvantages?
Limited resourcesUnlimited liabilityLimited expertiseLimited lifeMust follow both federal and state laws
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The Accounting EquationThe Accounting Equation
Two primary components in Accounting: Asset: anything of value that is owned
What are some things a business may own?
Equities: financial rights to the assets of a business What you owe What you have left if you subtract what you owe
from what you own What are some types of owner’s equity?
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The Accounting EquationThe Accounting Equation• Equities: financial rights to the assets of a business• Two Types:
liability: an amount owed by a business Those whom money is owed to You charged products to pay later, or you buy stocks,
bonds etc, to fund your business When you charge something you still have to pay it
owner’s equity: The amount remaining after the you subtract the
value of liabilities from the value of assets
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If you have a computer and an XBOX with a combined value of $850 and you owe $250 on the computer, how much is your owner’s equity?
Equities
Assets Liabilities Owner’s Equity
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Accounting EquationAccounting Equation
Accounting Equation: the relationship among assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity is written as an equation: Written as:
Assets = Liabilities + Owner’s Equity
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Accounting EquationAccounting Equation
Characteristics of the equation:Assets and Equities must be equalCan be written in a T-Account form:
Assets on the left, equities on the right
Total on the left will always = the total on the right
Assets = Liabilities + Owner’s Equity
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THE ACCOUNTING EQUATIONTHE ACCOUNTING EQUATION
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The Accounting EquationThe Accounting Equation
Assets and Equities must be equal Total on the left will always = the total on the right
If Assets are $5000 and liability is $1000, what is Owner’s Equity?
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Example 1.1Example 1.1
Assets = Liabilities + Owner’s Equity
1. ? 4,000 10,000
2. 10,000 ? 8,000
3. 60,000 38,000 ?
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1. Assets = 14,000 2. Liabilities = 2,0003. Owner’s Equity = $22,000
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Ethical Decision MakingEthical Decision Making page 9
ethics: the principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making decisions
business ethics: the use of ethics in making business decisions
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TERMS REVIEWTERMS REVIEW
accounting accounting system accounting records financial statements service business proprietorship asset
equities liability owner’s equity accounting equation ethics business ethics
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Notebook AssignmentNotebook AssignmentLesson 1-1 Assignment 2Lesson 1-1 Assignment 2
Number 1: What is the accounting equationNumber 2: Draw a “T Account”: Put accounting equation elements on the correct side. Number 3: What are two examples of a service business?Number 4: What is a proprietorship?
Assets = Liabilities + Owner’s Equity
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Assignment:Assignment:
Work Together 1-1 On Your Own 1-1 Application 1-1
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