What is an accounting information system?
An information system recording a company's business activities as figures in a database.
What does management accounting use detailed data extractions to determine?
Partial results like revenue generated by a product or customer.
What does financial accounting use less detailed data extractions to determine?
Comprehensive results such as profit or cash generation.
Which daily transactions are recorded in a company's accounting database?
Buying goods, selling products, paying suppliers and salaries, collecting payments, and repaying loans.
Why must financial accounting information be disclosed outside the company?
External users lack direct access and need relevant information for decisions.
How does financial accounting reduce information asymmetry?
By informing shareholders about the CEO’s management quality.
Besides shareholders, who else benefits from financial accounting information?
Creditors use it to support their decisions.
What is net income commonly used for legally?
Calculating dividends and determining taxable profits.
Who are considered external users of financial information?
Shareholders, analysts, journalists, rating agencies, lenders, suppliers, customers, government bodies, regulators, and the public.
Who are internal users of financial information?
Employees, representatives, and management.
What does GAAP stand for in accounting?
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
What does GAAP regulate in accounting?
Financial accounting and financial information
What is IFRS in relation to GAAP?
An international GAAP providing international financial reporting standards
Name three examples of national GAAPs.
French GAAP, German GAAP, and U.S. GAAP
What qualities should financial information have?
Comparability over time and companies, objectivity, and reliability by auditor verification
Who verifies the reliability of financial information?
An auditor
What do accounting regulations determine?
The information a company must publish, its presentation, calculation, and verification
What are the main financial statements?
Balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, and notes.
What does the balance sheet show?
The company’s financial position on a given date.
What does the balance sheet include?
Debt and the use made of funds collected and generated.
What does the income statement show?
The company’s performance over a given period.
How does the income statement measure performance?
Through the profit or loss generated.
What do individual accounts cover?
One company.
What do consolidated accounts cover?
A group of companies controlled by the same parent company.
What do assets represent on a company's balance sheet?
Assets represent a company's investments and other resources at a given time.
What does share capital represent in a company's equity?
Share capital represents funds invested by shareholders in exchange for shares.
What rights do shares provide to shareholders?
Shares provide voting rights and the possibility of receiving dividends.
What is the balance sheet equation relating assets, equity, and liabilities?
Assets equal equity and liabilities.
How is a company's book value calculated?
Book value equals assets minus debt.
How is net income calculated from revenues and expenses?
Net income equals revenues minus expenses.
What was the net income in the Red Coat example?
€60,000
Why are cash and net income different?
Because some sales and purchases are unpaid, some transactions affect cash but not income, and depreciation affects income without cash outflow.
What does the cash flow statement explain?
The change from initial to ending cash through operating, investing, and financing cash flows.
How do service companies differ from industrial companies in assets and financing?
Service companies have low tangible fixed assets, little inventory, significant accounts receivable, and mainly shareholder financing, while industrial companies have substantial fixed assets and financing from both equity and debt.
What does double-entry accounting record for each transaction?
At least two accounts showing payment method and transaction nature.
How do transactions without net income impact differ from those with net income impact?
They affect only balance-sheet items, unlike those affecting income statement and balance sheet.
What is type 1 in the four balance-sheet transaction combinations?
An increase in one asset and a decrease in another asset.
What is type 2 in the four balance-sheet transaction combinations?
An increase in one liability and a decrease in another liability.
What is type 3 in the four balance-sheet transaction combinations?
An increase in an asset and a liability.
What is type 4 in the four balance-sheet transaction combinations?
A decrease in an asset and a liability.
What does type 5 transaction increase in net income affecting transactions?
Revenue and an asset.
What does buying 1,100 tablets at €120 each on credit affect?
Increases inventory and accounts payable by €132,000 without affecting net income.
What is a T-account in accounting?
An account displayed as a capital T showing movements and ending balance.
On which side do asset accounts record increases?
On the left side of a T-account.
Where do liability accounts record decreases in a T-account?
On the left side of a T-account.
On which side are revenue increases recorded in a T-account?
On the right side of a T-account.
Where are expense increases recorded in a T-account?
On the left side of a T-account.
What is the formula for an account's ending balance?
What does recording a transaction in double-entry bookkeeping require?
Entering equal amounts on the left and right sides of affected accounts.
What asset and liability are created by purchasing 1,100 tablets at €120 each?
Tablet-inventory asset and accounts payable of €132,000.
Why does purchasing tablets not affect net income immediately?
Because the tablets have not yet been sold.
What accounts are recorded in a credit sale of 1,000 tablets at €300 each?
Accounts receivable and tablet sales totaling €300,000.
How is the tablets' cost recorded in the credit sale?
As an inventory decrease and cost of tablets sold of €120,000.
What happens when €270,000 of receivables are collected?
Cash increases and accounts receivable decreases.
What is the effect of paying €118,000 to suppliers?
Cash and accounts payable both decrease without changing net income.
What entries are made when €43,000 of services are consumed?
An expense and accounts payable are recorded.
What happens to account balances at the end of the accounting period?
They are transferred to the balance sheet and income statement.
How is net income determined at period end?
By subtracting expenses from revenues before carrying it to the balance sheet.
What does the €3,000 bank transfer for loan repayment include?
A €2,000 reduction in financial debt and a €1,000 interest expense.
Which part of the €3,000 transfer affects net income and cash?
The €1,000 interest expense reduces net income and cash.
How does the €2,000 reduction in financial debt affect net income?
It has no effect on net income.
How is a €6,000 loss of value on outlet fixtures recorded?
As depreciation expense reducing fixed assets.
What is the new value of the outlet fixtures after depreciation?
€194,000.
What defines non-current assets in accounting terms?
Resources controlled from past events with future benefits and over 12 months' life.
What are the three categories of non-current assets?
Intangible assets, tangible assets, and financial non-current assets.
When are acquired intangible assets recorded on the balance sheet?
When they meet the asset criteria.
Why are training expenditure and human capital recorded as expenses?
Because the company does not control them.
When can internally generated intangible assets be capitalized?
When their cost is determinable, like software or patent design costs.
What costs are included in the initial value of a non-current asset?
Purchase price after discounts, acquisition costs, decommissioning costs, and sometimes financing costs.
Which costs are excluded from the initial value of a non-current asset?
Training costs are excluded.
What is the initial balance-sheet value of a production line bought for €500,000 with €20,000 installation and €25,000 discount, excluding €12,000 training costs?
€495,000.
What distinguishes depreciation from impairment in asset value loss?
Depreciation is irreversible loss from use, impairment is potentially reversible loss from external events.
What defines depreciable assets?
Assets with limited useful life due to wear, obsolescence, or legal protection ending.
How are assets with components of different useful lives depreciated?
Each component is depreciated separately, not the entire asset as one unit.
What is the formula for annual depreciation rate under straight-line method?
Annual depreciation rate equals .
How is annual depreciation calculated under straight-line method?
Annual depreciation equals depreciation base multiplied by the annual rate.
What is the annual straight-line depreciation for a €200,000 minibus with 5-year life?
€40,000 per year.
How is depreciation calculated for a machine producing 18,000 units with 100,000 total units forecast?
Depreciation equals production units times depreciation per unit, here €36,000.
What does an impairment test compare to determine impairment loss?
Book value is compared with the higher of net sales price and value in use.
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