This document provides an overview of key accounting concepts including bookkeeping, accounting, financial accounting, cost accounting, management accounting, accounting cycle, accounting equation, types of accounts, rules of accounting, analysis of transactions, and journal entries. It defines accounting as the process of collecting, recording, classifying, and summarizing financial transactions. It also describes the different types of accounts (asset, liability, capital, income, expense), users of accounting information, and the steps in the accounting cycle.
3. ACCOUNTING
Is analysis and interpretation of book-keeping
records.
A process of collecting, recording, classifying and
summarizing the transactions and events of
financial nature.
4. ACCOUNTING AS AN INFORMATION
SYSTEM
Accounting is said to be the language of business.
The basic objective of accounting is to make the
necessary information available to a variety of
decision makers about financial results and
financial position of a business enterprise.
By making such information available at the right
time it helps them in making rational and adroit
decisions.
5. USERS OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION
INSIDERS OUTSIDERS
Investors
Management
Employees
Government and its
various agencies
Taxation authorities
Researchers
Public
Authorities dealing with
environmental issues
Creditors
Customers
6. BRANCHES OF ACCOUNTING
Financial Accounting
Management Accounting
Cost Accounting
Social Responsibility Accounting
Throughput Accounting
Human Resource Accounting
Price level Accounting/Inflation Accounting
7. FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
An original form of accounting, mainly concerned with the process
of identifying, measuring, recording, classifying, summarizing,
analyzing, interpreting and communicating the financial
transactions and business events.
The main purpose of this branch of accounting is primarily to
maintain systematic records to ascertain financial performance and
financial position and to communicate the accounting information
to the various interested parties.
The information provided by financial accounting about financial
result and financial position is significant, but not sufficient for
smooth, orderly and efficient conduct of business.
Management of today needs to be equipped with more information
for structured and strategic planning and effective control of the
business activities.
8. COST ACCOUNTING
Cost accounting is the classifying, recording and appropriate allocation
of expenditure for the determination of costs of products or services,
and for the presentation of suitably arranged data for the purpose of
guidance and control.
it deals with detailed study of cost mainly with reference to cost
ascertainment, cost reduction and cost control.
9. MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
Top management needs concise but distilled information for
taking invincible decisions at the appropriate time.
This system of accounting is an attempt to perform the function
of decision making efficiently, effectively and diligently.
It is the application of accounting techniques for providing
information, designed to help all levels of management in
general and top level in particular, in planning and controlling
the activities of business enterprise and in decision making. It is
not only concerned with decision making but also evaluating the
impact of its decisions and actions.
10. TO SUMMARIZE
Financial accounting is concerned with the preparation
of accounts
Cost accounting with cost ascertainment, cost reduction
and cost control
Management accounting with decision making based on
the interpretation and analysis of accounts.
12. ASSETS
Economic resources owned by business & from
which future economic benefits are reaped.
Owned Physical Objects ( Tangible)
Rights ( Intangible)
Eg. Land & building, Machinery, Debtors, goodwill,
Patents etc.
13. TYPES OF ASSETS
• Land & Building
• Machinery
Fixed
Assets
• Cash
• Debtors
Current
Assets
• Discount on issue of debentures
• Preliminary Expenses
Fictitious
Assets
14. LIABILITY
Amount owing by one person ( Debtor) to another
person (Creditor)
Financial obligations payable to outside parties.
15. • Long term loans
• Debentures
Fixed
Liability
• Creditors
• Short term loans
Current
Liability
• Guarantees undertaken
• Pending Financial Cases
Contingent
Liability
16. • Investment made by proprietor in the
business.
Capital
• Withdrawal of capital.
Drawings
17. • Articles manufactured or Purchased by
business for further sale.
Goods
• Unsold stock at the end of an accounting
period.
Stock
19. • Person who has taken debt or liable to
make payment or deliver goods & services.
Debtors
• Person who has given debt or has a right to
claim money or goods or avail services.
Creditors
21. THE ACCOUNTING CYCLE
Accounting procedures are performed over a period
of time.
Procedures are performed in a definite order in the
accounting cycle.
The accounting period is a period of time covered
by the income statement.
Usually this is a twelve month period.
The accounting cycle has sequential steps to be
performed again each year.
23. Rules of different accounts and basics of making an
entry
GOLDEN RULES OF
ACCOUNTING
24. These are the accounts of persons with whom
the business deals. There are three categories of
personal accounts:
Natural personal accounts
Artificial personal accounts
Representative personal accounts
TYPES OF ACCOUNTS
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS:
26. These are the accounts of property, assets and
goods etc. These accounts may be classified
into:
Tangible real accounts
Intangible real accounts
REAL ACCOUNTS
28. These are the accounts of expenses,
losses, incomes and gains etc. These
accounts are opened to explain the nature
of transactions.
NOMINAL ACCOUNTS
30. CLASSIFY THE ACCOUNTS AS PER THEIR NATURE
Wages
Hyderabad Club
Discount allowed
Discount received
Unexpired insurance
Interest received
Sales
Stock
Drawing
Salary
Nominal
Artificial personal
Nominal
Nominal
Rep. Personal
Nominal
Tangible Real
Tangible Real
Rep. Personal
Nominal
31. CLASSIFY THE ACCOUNTS AS PER THEIR
NATURE
Goodwill
Bills payable
Bad debts
Trade marks
Capital
Bad debts recovered
Sanjay
Infosys
land
Stationary
Intangible Real
Tangible Real
Nominal
Intangible real
Rep. personal
Nominal
Real personal
Art. Personal
Tangible real
Nominal
32. ANALYSIS OF TRANSACTIONS
Read the transactions carefully.
Find out the two accounts involved in it.
Determine the nature of accounts i.e. real, personal
or nominal.
Analyze effect of transaction on business.
Apply rules
33. QUESTION FOR ACCOUNTING EQUATION
Amul started business with cash Rs. 60,000
Bought furniture for cash Rs. 2,000
We bought goods on credit from X for Rs. 10,000
Paid rent in advance Rs. 1,000
Sold goods on credit for Rs. 4,000
Paid to X 6,000 on account.
Received Rs. 2,000 from debtors.
Paid salary Rs. 1,200.
Withdraw for private use Rs. 2,000.
34. IMPORTANT POINTS
Capital Account
Drawings Account
Interest on Capital
Interest on drawings
Trade discount
Cash discount
Bad debts
Depreciation
Expenses on acquiring or installation of fixed assets
35. OPENING ENTRY
Ramesh has following assets and liabilities as on
April 1, 2016
Cash in hand Rs.5,000
Cash at bank Rs.7,500
Stock of goods Rs.2,500
Sundry debtors Rs.8,000
Land & building Rs.20,000
Bills receivables Rs.2,000
Sundry creditors Rs.2,000
Bills payable Rs.3,000
Bank loan Rs.5,000
Pass necessary opening entry
36. PRACTICE QUESTION FOR JOURNAL
Capital invested Rs.50,000 in cash and a building
worth Rs.80,000.
Paid wages for construction of building Rs.1,500.
Booked an order with Mr. Rakesh for Rs.4,000.
Goods given as charity worth Rs.500
Received commission from Harish Rs.100
Rs.200 owing by Mr. Mongia written of as bad debt
Rent due to the landlord Rs.500
Allow interest on capital @ 6% on capital of
Rs.50,000
Charge interest on drawings Rs.200
37. ASSIGNMENT QUESTION NO.1
Cash in hand Rs.2,000
Cash at bank Rs.8,000
Advances from customer Rs.2,500
Bills receivables Rs.2,000
Amount due from X Rs.4,000
Stock of goods Rs.3,000
Machinery Rs.4,000
Amount due to Z Rs.1,000
Goodwill Rs.1,500
Pass opening entry in books of account.
38. ASSIGNMENT QUESTION NO.2
Capital invested in cash Rs.4,00,000.
At the time of investment owner brings furniture to
the business worth Rs.1,00,000
Goods given as free samples for advertisement
worth Rs.2,000.
Depreciation charged on furniture Rs.1,500.
Wages due but not paid Rs.1,200.
Received cash from Aamir Rs.1,450 and allowed
him discount Rs.50.
Provide interest on capital Rs. 4,000
Jacob bought goods on credit worth Rs.1,000.