
Explore how debits and credits drive financial transactions, through the accounting equation, ethics, financial statements, and the matching principle. Practice with Excel worksheets, PDA files, videos, and forums.
Discover why learn accounting, define accounting, explain what accounting is, and outline the objectives of accounting.
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Explores why we learn accounting, outlines financial and managerial accounting, and explains how different entities—sole proprietor, partnership, and corporation—shape accounting basics.
Explore accounting objectives such as relevance, reliability, and comparability. Explain the accounting equation and its use in the double entry accounting system, and examine ethics in the accounting profession.
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Examine accounting objectives—relevance, reliability, comparability—and how standardization, GAAP, and audits support credible balance sheet, income statement, statement of equity, and cash flows for investors, banks, and the IRS.
Explore the accounting equation and how debits and credits drive accounting transactions, with a downloadable supplementary file to support the instructional video.
Master the accounting equation, the balance sheet in balance, showing assets equal liabilities plus equity, and learn how debits and credits under the double-entry system record transactions.
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Explore ethics in accounting, define profession and ethics, and analyze fraud factors: opportunity, pressure, and rationalization, while describing internal controls such as separation of duties and bank reconciliations.
Practice short calculation problems using the accounting equation assets equal liabilities plus equity; compute equity from cash, building, and land, and derive net income from revenue minus expenses.
Explore the balance sheet and its components, their relationship to the documentary accounting system, and the income statement and the statement of equity.
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Explain balance sheet objectives and components—assets, liabilities, and equity—anchored to the accounting equation, as of a point in time, including current assets and depreciation concepts.
Learn how the income statement is explained in financial accounting, with a downloadable pedia file that supplements the instructional video.
Describe what an income statement is, its time frame from beginning to end, and its components, revenue and expenses, to determine net income.
Download a pedia file to supplement the instructional video on the statement of owner's equity, integrating with the course on financial accounting, debits, and credits.
Describe the statement of owners equity, including beginning and ending equity, and how investments, net income, and draws reconcile over a period to show book value.
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Explore how the balance sheet and income statement connect through the accounting equation, detailing assets, liabilities, equity, revenue, expenses, and net income.
Explore short calculation problems in the accounting equation format, solving for assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity using balance sheets and Excel practice with items like cash, accounts payable, and equipment.
Explore the accrual method and the cash method, including revenue recognition and the matching principle for expense recognition. Compare their pros and cons and identify when they align or differ.
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Learn the revenue recognition principle: record revenue when work is done, not when cash is received, with accounts receivable and examples from services, merchandising, and later invoicing.
Compare the cash method and accrual method, defining revenue and expense recognition, and explore timing differences on the income statement and balance sheet.
Practice short calculation questions on the accounting equation (assets equal liabilities plus equity). Learn how cash, supplies, accounts payable, and accounts receivable affect assets and equity in various transactions.
Explore financial transaction rules and the thought process for recording transactions, apply the accounting equation assets equal liabilities plus equity, and develop a systematic, efficient transaction workflow.
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Apply the transaction thought process to recording transactions, starting with cash effects and identifying the other affected accounts to keep the accounting equation in balance; apply debits and credits.
Practice short answer and multiple-choice accounting questions using the accounting equation to analyze how beginning equity, revenue, expenses, and owner withdrawals affect assets, liabilities, and equity.
Record transactions using the accounting equation, starting with cash transactions to illustrate effects, then examine accounts payable and accounts receivable within the revenue cycle.
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Explore how cash transactions affect the accounting equation, record them using assets, liabilities, and equity, and transition to the debit and credit method.
Utilize a downloadable excel worksheet to engage with the financial accounting concepts of debits and credits within this lecture.
Learn to apply the accounting equation using Excel to track cash and other accounts, recording transactions, and ensuring balance with debits and credits.
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Apply the accounting equation to accounts payable through the payable cycle, recording purchases on account, payments, and ending balances as assets, liabilities, and equity in balance.
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Practice worksheet-level recording of accounts payable transactions within the accounting equation. Explore how purchases on account and cash payments affect assets, liabilities, and owner's equity.
practice test questions cover the accounting equation—assets equal liabilities plus equity—and the roles of external users, GAAP, and going concern concepts.
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Define debits and credits and explain their use within the double entry accounting system, then outline the rules that govern up and down movements in debit and credit balances.
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Discover how the double-entry accounting system uses the accounting equation to balance assets, liabilities, and equity on the balance sheet, and master debits, credits, revenue, and expenses.
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Master the rules of debits and credits, memorize normal balances, and apply them to increase or decrease assets, liabilities, equity, revenue, and expenses through concise journal entries.
Explore the debit and credit rules and the transaction thought process, using a systematic method to assemble financial transactions. Learn the trial balance and its components and formats.
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Apply a cash-first thought process to recording journal entries, determine cash impact, then apply debits and credits to the other account, using a systematic approach to avoid errors.
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Define the trial balance, list its components, and show how ending balances from the general ledger support financial statement preparation. Explain debits and credits.
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