accounting in a business context

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Chapter 1 - Introduction To Accounting
- Understand why studying accounting is important in a business context. - Understand what accounting is for, who uses it and what they use it for. - Recognize the limitations of accounting as a tool in your business toolkit.
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Chapter 20 - Investment Decisions
- Understand and distinguish between four methods of investment appraisal - accounting rate of return, payback, net present value and internal rate of return - Understand the process of discounting - Use these methods in making long-term decisions - Explain the importance of time value for money - Calculate perpetuities
0  cards
Chapter 2 - Wealth And The Measurement Of Profit
- Understand the relationship between income and wealth - Be aware of the problems associated with measuring wealth and their impact on the measurement of income - Be able to measure income and wealth using different measurement bases and compare the outcomes
8  cards
Chapter 3 - The Measurement Of Wealth
- Understand the importance of the separation of the business from the owner and the application of the business entity principle. - Understand what a statement of financial position is and understand its component parts. - Understand the importance and limitations of the statement of financial position. - Have an understanding of the accounting equation and be able to draw up a simple statement of financial position. - Be aware of the advantages and thinking behind different formats for the
12  cards
Chapter 4 - The Income Statement And The Cash Flow Statement
- Identify revenue and expenses for a period and draw up a simple income statement. - Understand the principles of accrual accounting where revenue and expenses are allocated to the periods to which the economic activities relate rather than simply when the transaction occurred. - Understand the definitions of revenue and expenses, the difficulties associated with the recognition of revenue and the importance of the matching principle. - Understand how a cash flow statement is produced and th
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Chapter 5 - Introduction To The Worksheet
- Understand the concept of duality and how it applies to the recording of transactions. - Understand the concept of prudence and its importance in financial statement preparation. - Be able to record transactions following the principles of double entry using a worksheet as the format for recording those transactions. - Be able to extract a statement of financial position at the end of a period of time. - Be able to produce a simple income statement for a period of time. - Be able to produ
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Chapter 6 - Inventory
- Understand what the term inventory means and be able to identify the different forms inventory can take - Understand why the determination of inventory levels is important and the effects of inventory levels and values on the income statement and the statement of financial position. - Be able to apply the concept of prudence to the valuation of inventory. - Understand the process of matching and the difference between accrual accounting and cash based accounting. - Understand the acceptabl
10  cards
Chapter 7- Amounts Receivable And Amounts Payable
- Be able to deal with trade payables and receivables on the worksheet - Understand their impact on the statement of financial position, income statement and cash flow statement. - Understand why prepayments exist and ow to deal with them. - Understand what accruals are and the need to create them in order to fairly represent the activities of an enterprise during an accounting period. - Appreciate the differences and similarities between trade receivables, payables, accruals and prepayments
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Chapter 8 - Non-Current Assets, Fixed Assets And Depreciation
- Understand the differences between current and non-current assets. - Understand the reasons for depreciating fixed assets. - Understand the most commonly used methods for depreciating assets. - Understand the effects of depreciation on the statement of financial position. - Understand the impact of depreciation on the income statement and the cash flow statement and why these effects are different. - Understand how gains and losses on the sale of fixed assets arise and their impact on the
11  cards
Chapter 15 - Cost Behavior And Cost - Volume - Profit Analysis
- Understand the nature of fixed and variable costs. - Appreciate the way in which costs behave over activity levels. - Explain how past costs are measured to predict future costs. - Use cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis in decision making. - Appreciate the limitation and assumptions underpinning the determination of future costs and revenues.
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Chapter 16 - Accounting For Overhears And Product Costs
- Distinguish between traditional full costing , activity based costing and marginal costing and the way in which overheads are accounted for in product costing. - Understand the importance of sharing overheads to product cost on an equitable basis using activity based costing and absorption costing. - Recognize the impact on profits in using absorption costing, activity based costing and marginal costing.
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