Introduction to
Accounting
LECTURER: NUR QURATUN ‘AINI HARON
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students should be able to:
01 Explain the definition of accounting and differentiate
between accounting and bookkeeping.
02 explain the accounting cycle
03 Explain the functions of financial statements
04 Identify different groups of users and their use of the
financial statement.
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Explain the business forms and their characteristics
What is accounting?
“ It is a systematic process of classifying,
recording and summarizing transactions and
business events in monetary terms and “
interpreting the results to interested users to
enable them to make economic decisions.
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What is bookkeeping?
Bookkeeping is only a part of
accounting which stresses
on the recording of business
transactions. It is the activity of keeping full
documentation of every
single financial transaction
Add Contents Title of the entity to form a base for
the accounting process. The
work is clerical in nature.
What are the differences between
bookkeeping and accounting?
✔ Bookkeeping is different from accounting as it is only
the first step to Accounting, i.e. keeping proper records
of the financial transactions of an entity.
✔ Accounting is a complete procedure which starts from
the recording of transactions and ends on reporting of
the financial statements to the interested users.
✔ The task of bookkeeping is performed by a bookkeeper
while accounting is perform by the accountant.
Who is the people behind the task?
Bookeeper
Classifying, recording and summarizing the business
transactions systematically
Accountants
Prepare and interpret the financial statements .
Auditors (internal/external)
Review the company’s books, financial statements
and look for any errors and discrepancies.
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The Accounting Cycle
What is the main objective of
financial statements?
“ to provide information about the
financial position, performance and changes
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in financial position of an enterprise that is
useful to a wide range of users in making
economic decisions (IASB Framework)
What are financial statements and its component?
Also called as Also called as
Statement of Statement of
Financial Position Profit or Loss
Financial statements are written and formal records that
convey the financial activities and conditions of a business
Statement of Profit or Loss/
Income Statement
Simple Portfolio Designed
⮚ Shows business’ revenues and expenses
over a period of time
⮚ If revenue is more than expenses, business
will have net income/profit
⮚ If expenses are more than revenue,
business will have net loss
Statement of Financial Position/
Balance Sheet
✔ Highlights the relative strength/ position of a
business at a point in time.
✔ Terms related to the balance sheet: assets
(non-currents assets & current assets), liabilities
(non-currents liabilities & current liabilities) and
owner’s equity.
What are the elements of financial statements?
ASSET
• Properties owned by the business; non-current assets and current assets.
• Non-current assets are assets acquired not for resale with a useful life of more
than one year. Consists of tangible asset (eg: land), intangible asset (eg:
patent) and investment.
• Current assets are assets that are either cash or cash equivalent and any
assets that has a useful life less than a year. For example, stock, cash at
bank, debtors
OWNER’S EQUITY
● is the wealth of the business own by the owners.
● It represents the fund supplied by the owner together with profit retained in
the business excluding any liabilities and drawings.
LIABILITY
• financial obligation of the business to external parties of business; non-
current liability and current liability
• Non-current liability is the financial obligation that can be settled more than a
year. For example, long term loan, debenture and bond.
• Current liability is the financial obligation that need to be settled within a
year. For example, short-term loan, creditor, accrual payment
What are the elements of financial statements?
REVENUE/INCOME
• created when there is a stream of economic benefits, normally
money move into the company
• money received from the sale of goods.
• received interest, royalties, dividends, commissions, government
grants, franchise fees and others.
EXPENSES
• outflow of economic benefits, normally money paid to outsiders in
the course of ordinary activities that necessary to run the business
• salary for workers, electricity bill and transportation.
What are the elements of financial
statements?
ELEMENTS OF FINANCIAL
STATEMENTS
OWNER'S
ASSETS LIABILITIES REVENUE EXPENSES
EQUITY
Non-currents Currents Non-current Currents
assets Assets liabilities liabilities
Statement of
Profit or Loss
Statement of Financial Position
Let’s take a break
Who are the users of financial statements?
Internal users
Owner/management
Interested to know whether the
business is being conducted /
the capital is being employed
properly or not.
Employee
Interested in financial
statements as the payment of
bonus depends upon the size of
profit earned by the business
External users
Creditors/bankers
these groups are interested to
know the business’ financial
soundness before granting
credit
Investors
Investors wish to see the
progress and prosperity of the
firm, before investing their
money
External users
Tax authorities/Government
Tax authorities keeps a close watch
on the profits yield by business.
They are interested to know the
earnings for the purpose of
taxation
Customers
interested in getting the goods at
reduced price. Thus, they wish to
know the establishment of proper
accounting control, which in turn
will reduce the cost of production
Types of Business
Sole proprietorship
Company
• Owned and manage by a
single owner • Owned by many
• Simplest and least costly Partnership shareholders and
• For example, restaurant, managed by board of
grocery shop, laundry • Owned by two or more directors
individuals • Large amount of capital
• Normal partnership (2-20 • Return to owners is in the
partners) form of dividend
• Professional partnership • Divided into public and
(2- 50) private company
• Profit and loss is sharing
among partners
Assignment:
You are required to identify further
characteristics for each of the business
form in terms of:
(capital contribution, liability, legal requirement and main legislation,
taxation and financial statements)
Thank you
