Chapter 1 Flashcards
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“Accounting” as a service activity. Its function is to provide
quantitative information, primarily financial in nature, about economic entities, that is intended to be
useful in making economic decisions.
Accounting Standards Council
Accounting” as the art of recording, classifying, and summarizing in a significant manner in terms of
money, transactions and events which are in part at least of a financial character and interpreting the results
thereof.
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
“Accounting” as the
process of identifying, measuring, and communicating economic information to permit informed judgment
and decision by users of the information.
Basic Accounting Theory
is a body of knowledge which has been systematically gathered,
classified and organized
As a social science, accounting
requires the use of creative skills and judgment (Millan, 2019)
As a Practical Art, accounting
It is an event that has a direct effect on the operation of the economic unit and can be expressed in
terms of money.
BUSINESS TRANSACTION
Ex. Buying and Selling of goods, renting a building, paying employees, buying new office equipment, buying
new office equipment and any other activity of a business that involves exchanges of values in monetary
items
BUSINESS TRANSACTION
Accounting has a number of components
1. ______________ as the ____________ component
2. ______________as the____________ component
3. ______________ as the ___________component
- Identifying as the analytical component
- Measuring as the technical component
- Communicating as the formal component
This accounting process is the recognition or non-recognition of business activities as “Accountable events.
IDENTIFYING
Economic activities may be classified as _________ and __________
- external
- internal
are those economic events involving one entity and another entity
External Transactions or exchange transactions
are economic events involving the entity only
Internal Transactions
is the process by which resources are transferred into products.
Production
is any sudden and
unanticipated loss from fire, flood, earthquake and other event ordinarily termed as an act of God.
Casualty
is the assigning of peso amounts to the accountable economic transactions and events. Financial statements without monetary amounts would be largely unintelligible or incomprehensible.
MEASURING
is the unit of measuring accountable economic transactions.
The Philippines peso
Four Measurement bases or financial attributes
Historical Cost
Current Cost
Realizable Value
Present Value
this is identified as the original acquisition cost.
Historical Cost
this is identified as replacement cost or the current purchase price
Current Cost
this is identified as current selling price or the amount that could currently be obtained by selling the asset in an orderly disposal
Realizable Value
This is the discounted value of the future net cash inflows that the asset is expected to generate in the normal course of business.
Present Value
is the process of preparing and distributing accounting reports to potential users of accounting information. Implicit in the communication process are the recording, classifying and
summarizing aspects of accounting
COMMUNICATING
is the process of systematically maintaining are cord of all economic business
transactions after they have been identified and measured.
Recording or Journalizing
is the sorting or grouping of similar and interrelated economic transactions into their respective
classes.
Classifying