Financial Reports
The Accounting equation
Accounting Assumptions and qualitative characteristics
Accounting elements
Financial Ratios
100

This financial report shows a company's revenues and expenses over a specific period.

What is an Income statement

100

Assets = $22000

Liabilities = $12000

OE = ?

10000

100

expenses should be recorded in the same period as the revenues they help generate.

Accrual

100

a present economic resource controlled by the entity (as a result of past events) that has the potential to produce future economic benefits

What is an asset

100

Net profit / Average assets

What is Return on Assets

100

Written on the left hand side of the balance sheet

What is an asset

100

When might cash at bank be a liability

What is an overdraft

100

the records of assets, liabilities and business activities of the entity are kept completely separate from those of the owner of the entity as well as from those of other entities

What is the entity assumption

100

a reduction in liabilities that leads to an increase in owner’s equity.

What is Revenue

100

Return on owners equity

Net profit / Owners equity

300

This report provides all cash flows during a reporting period, classified as Operating, and Financing activities

What is a Cash Flow statement

300

State the effect on the accounting equation. The owner takes home a $400 printer for personal use.

Asset decrease by $400

Liabilities No effect

Owners equity decreases by $400

300

the assumption that reports are prepared for a particular period of time, such as a month or a year, in order to obtain comparability of results

What is the period assumption

300

an increase in liabilities that reduces owner’s equity 

What is an expense

300

Net profit / revenue

What is Net profit margin

400

an Accounting report that details a firm’s financial position at a particular point in time by reporting its assets, liabilities and owner’s equity

What is a balance sheet

400

How would a machine used for producing a companies product be classified?

What is a non-current asset

400

ensures that different, knowledgeable and independent observers can reach the same conclusion that a particular representation of an event is faithfully represented

What is the qualitative characteristic of verifiability

400

a present obligation of the entity (as a result of past events) to transfer an economic resource

What is a liability

400

Gross profit / net sales

Gross Profit Margin

500

The first category found on the cash flow statement

What are cash flow from operations

500

State the effect on the accounting equation.

Sale of inventory for $400 + GST. Cost of goods sold $200

Assets increase by $240

Liabilities increase by $40

OE increases by $200

500

the cost of the asset when purchased

What is historical cost?

500

the residual interest in the assets of a company after deducting liabilities

What is equity

500

Inventory turnover

Cost of goods sold / average inventory