Financial Accounting - Focuses on financial statements distributed by lenders, stakeholders, financial analysts and stockholders, and others outside a corporation or organisation.
Managerial Accounting - Focuses on assisting management in the operation of the company. This includes managing company’s costs, assisting with financial decisions, profit planning, capital budgeting and break-even points.
A general ledger account is an account, or record used to store, sort and summarise a company's transactions. These accounts are then arranged in the general ledger, with the balance sheet accounts, followed by the income statement accounts.
Some general ledger accounts can become a summary of records which can sometimes be referred to as control accounts. In this case, all details that support the summary amounts in one control account will be available in what’s called a subsidiary ledger.
Accounts payable is a current liability account. This is where a company records what they owe to suppliers for goods or services they received on credit.
Accounts receivable is a current asset account in which a company records the amounts they hold a right to collect from customers who have received services or goods on credit.
The accounting term accruals, refers to adjustments that must be made before a financial statement is issued.
These can include:
Equity can mean:
Owner’s equity is one of the three main sections of a sole proprietorship’s balance sheet.
Assets = Liabilities + Owner’s Equity.
It represents the owner’s investment in the business, miners the owner’s draws and withdrawals from the business. Plus the net income or loss, since the business began.
A creditor could be a supplier, person or bank that has provided money, services or goods to a company, yet expects to be paid at a later date.
GAAP - Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
GAAP consists of:
Assets are resources owned by a company as a result of transactions.
Examples:
Fixed assets generally refer to long-term assets, tangible assets used in a business that are classified as equipment, plant or property.
Examples:
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