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Intro To Accounting
Final Exam Study
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Accounting
Undergraduate 1
12/08/2013

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Term

 

Cash Flow Statement:

Operating Activities

Definition

- Reciepts from customers

- reciepts of interest

- reciepts of dividents

 

-payments to suppliers

- payments to employees

- payments for interest

- payments for income tax

Term

Cash Flow Statement:

 

Investing Activities

 

Definition

- Receipts from sale of non-current asset

- Receipts from sale of investment

- Receipts from collection of loans and bills receivable

 

- Payments for acquisition of non-current investment

- Payments for purchase of investment

- Payments for new loans made

Term

Cash Flow Statement:

 

Financing Activities

Definition

- Receipts from issue of long term debt

- Receipts from issue of shares

 

- Payments of long-term debt

- Payments for share buy backs

- Payments of dividends

Term

Cash flow statement - Operating activity

 

Receipts from customers formula

Definition

Sales revenue + Decrease in accounts receivable

                    -  Increase in accounts receivable

Term

Cash Flow Statement - Operating Activities

 

Receipts of interest formula

Definition

Interest revenue + Decrease in interest receivable

                        -  Increase in interest receivable

Term

Cash flow statement - Operating activities

 

Receipts of dividents formula

Definition

Divident revenue + Decrease in dividends receivable

                        -  Increase in dividends receivable

Term

Cash flow statement - Operating Activities

 

Payments to suppliers formula

Definition

Cost of sales  + Increase in inventory 

                     -  Decrease in inventory

                               + Decrease in accounts payable

                               -  Increase in accounts payable

Term

Cash Flow Statement - Operating Activities

 

Payments to employee's Formula

Definition

Salary Expense + Decrease in salary payable

                      -  Increase in salary payable

Term

Cash Flow Statement - Operating Activities

 

Payments For interest formula

Definition

Interest Expense + Decrease in interest payable

                        -  Increase in interest payable

Term

Cash Flow Statement - Operating Activities

 

Payments for income tax formula

Definition

Income tax expense + Decrease in Tax Payable

                             -  Increase in Tax Payable

Term

What Date headding does the balance sheet, Income Statement & Cash Flow Statement receive?

 

 

Definition

Balance Sheet: AS AT ____

Income Statement: FOR THE PERIOD ENDED ___

Cash Flow Statement: FOR THE PERIOD ENDED____

Term

MEASURING THE COAST OF PROPPERTY:

 

What is included in Land and Land improvements?

Definition

- Purchase price

- Agents COmission

- Government stamp duty

- Survey and legal fee's

- Cost of clearing the land and removing unwanted buildings.

* The Cost Of Land Is Not Depreciated*

Term

MEASURING THE COST OF PROPPERTY:

 

What is included in costructing a building?

Definition

- Architechtural fee's

- Building permits

- Contractor charges

- Payments for materials, labour & overheads.

- Capitalised interest costs, if self constructed.

Term

MEASURING THE COST OF PROPPERTY:

 

What are the costs involved in purchasing an existing building?

Definition

- Purchase Price

- Costs to renovate the building to ready it for use.

Term

MEASURING THE COSTS OF PROPPERTY:

 

What costs are involved in machinery and equipment?

 

Definition

- Purchase Price

- Transportation Charges

- Insurance while in transit

- Customs duty or similar charges

- Installation charges

- Costs of testing the asset before its used.

Term

Capital expenditure VS Expense.

 

When do you capitalise the expense on equipment?

Definition
You capitalise an expense only if the expenditure increases CAPACITY, EFFICIENCY or USEFUL LIFE.
Term

What is the journal for capitalising expenditure?

 

Definition

DR Non Current Assets

CR Capital

Term
What is the journal for expensing expenditure?
Definition

DR Repairs and maintenance expense

CR Cash

Term
How do you find the depreciable amount?
Definition
Cost - Residual = Depreciable amount
Term
What is the straight line depreciation formula?
Definition

Depreciable amount x amount of time.

 

eg. ($41,000 - $1000) x 1/5 (one year of 5) = $8,000

Term
What is the units of production depreciation formula?
Definition
(Cost - Residual) / total # of units
Term
What is the reducing balance formula?
Definition

1 - n √ r/c 

(one minus N to the power of R over C)

Term
What are the steps of disposing of a non-current asset?
Definition

1. Bring the depreciation up to date

2. remove the old, disposed of asset from the books. Make the asset account equal zero by crediting the asset for its original cost. make the accumulated depreciation account for the asset equal zero by debiting it for all the depreciation taken to date on the asset.

3. record the value of any cash (or other acocunts) paid (or received) for the asset.

4. Determine the difference between the total debits and total credits made in the journal entry. 

Term
What is the journal entry for scrapping a truck?
Definition

DR Depreciation expense

Cr Accumulated depreciation

 

DR accumulated depreciation

DR loss on disposal of truck

CR Truck

Term
What is the journal for selling the truck for a lesser value?
Definition

DR depreciation expense

CR accumulated depreciation

 

DR accumulated depreciaton

DR cash

DR loss on truck

CR Truck

Term
What is the journal entry for exchanging the truck for a higher value?
Definition

DR Depreciation expense

CR accumulated depreciation

 

DR accumulated depreciation

DR (item or cash received in exchange)

CR The amount gained

CR Truck (original)

 

Term
What makes a long term liability?
Definition
Anything owed after 1 year from the current date
Term
What is the journal for purchasing $700 of inventory on a 1 year notes payable with 10% interest.
Definition

DR Inventory $700

CR Short term notes payable (because its within a year) $700

 

Then calculate the interest for 3 months:

DR interest expense ($700 x 0.10 x 3/12 (3 months)) = $18

CR interest payable $18

 

Then the full interest and note payable at end of year.

DR short term note payable $700

DR Interest Payable $18

DR Interest expense (full interest minus interest payable) $52

CR Cash $770

Term
How to journalise for unearned revenues?
Definition

DR Cash

CR Unearned revenue

 

DR Unearned revenue

CR Service Revenue

Term
How to journalise estimated warrenty payable
Definition

1. Record sales on acocunt         3. Estimate the warrenty payable (3% of sales)

DR Accounts receivable                 DR Warrenty expense

CR Sales revenue                        CR Warrenty Payable


2. Record cost of sales              4. Record the actual amount of warrenty claims paid.

DR Cost of sales                         DR Warrenty payable

CR inventory                              CR Cash

 

Term

Accounting for payroll

 

What is gross and net pay?

Definition

Gross pay: The total amount of salary, wages, comission, and bonus earned by the employee during a pay period

 

Net Pay: The amount the employee gets to keep.

Term
What is the journal for salary expense?
Definition

DR Salary expense (or wage, or comission etc.)

CR Employee income tax payable

CR Payabe to australian red cross

CR Employee suerannualtion contributions

CR Cash or salary payable to employee's

 

Term
What is the journal to record employee benefits payable by employer?
Definition

DR Health insurance expense

DR Life insurance expense

DR Superannuation Expense

CR      Employee benefits payable

Term
What is the jorunal to record employers payroll tax?
Definition

DR Payroll tax expense

CR    Payroll tax payable

Term
Journalise for a mortgage payable
Definition

DR Land

DR Building

CR Mortgage payable

CR Cash

Term
What is horizontal analysis & how do you calculate it?
Definition

Horizontal analysis conpares one year to the next.

 

Step 1: Calculate the dollar amount of change from earlier period, to later period.

Step 2: Divide the dollar mount of change by the earlier period amount. This will give you the % change.

Term
What is the vertical anylisis formula?
Definition

Vertical analysis % =

Each income ststement item / Revenues (net sales)

x 100 (to make into percent).

Term
Wht is the formula for the liquidity ratio (current ratio)?
Definition

Current assets / current liabilities

(answer should be around 2 or slightly higher)

Term
What is the acid test ratio formula?
Definition

Cash + Short term investments + net current receivables / Current liabilities.

 

(Shows ability to pay current liabilities if they came due immediately)

Term
Inventory turnover ratio formula?
Definition

Cost of sales / average inventory

 

(a high rate of turnover indicates ease of selling inventory)

Term
Days in inventory ratio formula?
Definition

365 days / inventory turnover ratio

 

(shows us the average number of days that inventory is held by the company)

Term
Profit percentage formula?
Definition

Gross profit / Net sales

 

(measures the profitability of each net sales dollar)

Term
Accounts receivable turnover ratio formula?
Definition

Net credit sales / Average net accounts receivable

 

(measures the ability to collect cash from credit customers)

 

The higher the ratio, the faster the cash collections.

Term
The debt ratio formula?
Definition

Total liabilities / Total assets

 

The debt ratio shows the proportion of assets financed with debt.

If the debt ratio is 1, then all the assets are financed with debt.

Term
The debt to equity ratio formula?
Definition

Total liabilities / total equity

 

(the debt to equity ratio shows the proportion of total liabilities relative to the proportion of total equity that is financing the companies assets)

Term
The rate of return on net sales ratio formula?
Definition

Profit / net sales

 

Shows the percentage of each net sales dollar earned as profit.

Term
The rate of return on total assets ratio formula?
Definition

(Profit + Interest before tax expense) / Average total assets

 

Measures a company's success in using assets to earn a profit.

Term
The asset turnover ratio formula?
Definition

Net sales / Average total assets

 

Measures the amount of net sales generated for each average dollar of total assets investes.

 

(measures how well a company is using its assets to generate sales revenues)

Term
What is the dividend yield formula?
Definition

Dividend per prdinary share / market price per ordinary share.

 

This ratio measures the percentage of a share's market value that is returned anually as dividends to shareholders.

Term
Dividend payout ratio formula?
Definition

Dividend per ordinary share / earnings per share

 

This ratio measures the percentage of earnings paid annualy to ordinary shareholders as cash dividends.

Term
Book value per ordinary share formula?
Definition

Total ordinary shareholders equity / number of ordinary shares issued.

 

(book value of the shares)

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