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An overview of accounting, focusing on the differences between managerial and financial accounting. Managerial accounting deals with internal reporting for decision-making, while financial accounting caters to external stakeholders. essential concepts such as assets, liabilities, equity, and the balance sheet equation. It also discusses the role of accounting in maintaining a functional market and the importance of reliable and comparable financial reporting.
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Accounting Accounting System Two types of accounting: managerial and financial. Managerial, for internals. Financial, for externals –investors. Find out if employees of a company are happy or not: collects information of level of happiness and reports them to decision makers. You don’t have nothing to do with external markets in this case. Financial accounting, instead, deals with investors and creditors -external decision makers. Information given are essential: banks will lend money or not basing on info you give them. We will focus on financial (external) accounting. In accounting classification is essential. Four basic financial statements:
now own the whole pie. You spit it in equal pieces and each slice is a share. You sell part of the shares keeping the others for yourself. Again, market capitalization=n° of shares x price of share The market decides the value of the single share: the stock market sets prices. The value changes, you may buy a share today 1000 and tomorrow it will be
Liabilities are obligations: you own a sale when you deliver a product, it does not matter if you have been paid or not already. Stockholders’ equity: money you saved out of the money made. Total stockholders’ equity in balance sheet is what you saved. If you sum up stockholders’ equity with liabilities it equals assets. Why does it have to balance? If you have a situation of more assets than liabilities + SE.
Debit always on the left and credit always on the right column. Income statement R-E=Profit It is composed of operating activities (revenues and costs) and peripheral activities (revenues and gains). If the price of manufacturing is 5$, the cost of sales for this product is 5$. Company makes cash and does not use it immediately, but loans it to other companies (acting like a bank); this generates interest revenue: you make extra revenue. Net income: what I earn Earnings per share (EPS): net income/n° of shares Cash basis accounting Revenue is recorded when cash is received – Expenses are recorded when cash is paid Evaluation based on how much money is going in and how much money is going out: this kind of evaluation is based only on current money. Recognition of future expense before the cash goes out is called accrued accounting : you don’t need cash to recognize expenses and revenues. In cash basis accounting, instead, you don’t take into considerations future expenses or loans etc. GAAP: generally acceptable accounting principles requires the accrued accounting method. It does not recognize cash basis accounting. Revenue principle Did you deliver or not? Main principle for recognition of revenue. Deliver must be occurred. Make sure there is evidence of an arrangement for costumer payment. Price fix or determinable Collection reasonably ensured Case n° You received 10.000$ -in cash- for sale of car. You will deliver the car in 2 months. Cash: +10. You have an obligation towards costumer: you have to give a product you have been paid for. It is a liability (unearned revenue), that increases by 10. When you deliver the car, you do have a revenue. Revenue is part of shareholders’ equity, so +10.000. Case n° Sold and delivered 50.000$ in computer, paid in cash by costumer. Cash: +50. Sales: +50.000 (more rev, more SE)
More revenues create more profit. While more expenses decrease income. Income statement resets every year- starts from January and ends in December. Case n° You sold $5000 on shirts and the customers promised to pay in 3 months. You delivered the product, so you already have revenue even if you will have it in the future. Account receivable (more asset): +5. Sales (more rev, more SE): +5. Receivables are transformed into cash: liquidity is the speed in which receivables are turned into cash. It is not an obligation: it is you who is waiting to be actually paid in the future, you don’t have obligation towards someone.
Customer paid you. You increased your cash in 5.000$ Accounts receivable goes down by 5.000$ Principle of conservatism -> you don’t say it is a revenue before you delivered: you expect the worst Recognition of revenues – recognition of expenses There is high level of verification that precedes the recognition of revenues and lower level of verification for expenses. This is called “pessimistic behavior”. Conservatism is a principle of accounting. Contingent liabilities are expenses that are accounted but don’t happen in the end. Earnings quality : for every dollar of profit, in terms of stock price how much is it? Evaluation of credibility of information. Expenses – Case 1 You pay in advance 15.000$ in insurance for the next year. Prepaid insurance (+A): 15.000$, you are paying for the future, you have not used it yet. Cash (-A): -15.000$
We are in July 1st,^ 2019. Record (adjust) expenses for insurance. We used 6 months of insurance out of 12.
Rev-Exp= Profit Stock markets must be kept alive, otherwise economy goes down. Classification of cash flows Operating activities involve the cash effects of transactions that enter into the determination of net income, such as cash receipts from sales of goods and services and cash payments to suppliers and employees for acquisitions of inventory and expenses. Investing activities generally involve long-term assets and include: Making and collecting loans. Acquiring and disposal of investments and productive long-lived assets. Financing activities liability and stockholders; equity items and include: Obtaining cash from creditors and repaying the amounts borrowed. Obtaining capital from owners and providing them with a return, and return of, their investment. Accounting cycle Revenues and expenses are temporaries. How do we close these accounts? Through retained earnings account. Profit Margin: how much profit you make out of your revenue. Net profit margin given by Net Income/Net sales. Ex/ Ferrari produces less, small manufacture, but they have a big margin, they make a lot of money out of every unit sold. While Fiat sells in volume, they produce a lot and they earn less from every unit, less profit on every dollar of sales. Classification of Long-Lived Assets Trademarks and goodwill do not depreciate. They have indefinite life. Fixed asset turnover= Net sales rev/average net fixed asset This ratio measures company’s ability to generate sales given an investment in fixed assets. Capital Expenditure Book value= acquisition cost-accumulated depreciation