Preface | p. xi |
The Bookkeeping Cycle | p. 1 |
Assets, Liabilities, and Capital | p. 3 |
Nature of Bookkeeping and Accounting | p. 3 |
Basic Elements of Financial Position: The Accounting Equation | p. 3 |
Debits and Credits: The Double-Entry System | p. 15 |
Introduction | p. 15 |
The Account | p. 15 |
Debits and Credits | p. 16 |
The Ledger | p. 18 |
The Chart of Accounts | p. 19 |
The Trial Balance | p. 19 |
Journalizing and Posting Transactions | p. 32 |
Introduction | p. 32 |
The Journal | p. 32 |
Journalizing | p. 33 |
Posting | p. 34 |
Financial Statements | p. 52 |
Introduction | p. 52 |
Income Statement | p. 52 |
Accrual Basis and Cash Basis of Accounting | p. 53 |
Balance Sheet | p. 53 |
Statement of Owner's Equity | p. 55 |
The Statement of Cash Flows | p. 55 |
Financial Statement Summary | p. 56 |
Classified Financial Statements | p. 56 |
Adjusting and Closing Procedures | p. 85 |
Introduction: The Accrual Basis of Accounting | p. 85 |
Adjusting Entries Covering Recorded Data | p. 85 |
Adjusting Entries Covering Unrecorded Data | p. 87 |
Closing Entries | p. 88 |
Ruling Accounts | p. 90 |
Post-Closing Trial Balance | p. 92 |
Bookkeeping and Accounting Cycle | p. 92 |
Comprehensive Review Problem | p. 107 |
| p. 117 |
Computer Application: Peachtree Complete Software Introduction | p. 126 |
Introduction | p. 126 |
Illustration | p. 126 |
Conclusion | p. 139 |
Special Journals, Ledgers, and the Worksheet | p. 141 |
Repetitive Transactions: The Sales and the Purchases Journals | p. 143 |
Introduction | p. 143 |
Sales Journal | p. 143 |
Special Ledgers (Subsidiary Ledgers) | p. 144 |
Sales Returns and Discounts | p. 146 |
Types of Ledger Account Forms | p. 147 |
Purchases as a Cost | p. 148 |
Trade Discounts | p. 148 |
Purchase Control | p. 148 |
Purchase Invoices | p. 149 |
Purchases Journal | p. 149 |
Subsidiary Accounts Payable Ledger | p. 150 |
Return of Merchandise | p. 151 |
Purchase Discounts | p. 152 |
The Cash Journal | p. 173 |
Introduction | p. 173 |
Cash Receipts Journal | p. 173 |
Cash Disbursements Journal | p. 175 |
Combination Cash Journal | p. 176 |
Comprehensive Review Problem | p. 184 |
Summarizing and Reporting via the Worksheet | p. 193 |
Introduction | p. 193 |
Worksheet Procedures for a Service Business | p. 193 |
| p. 206 |
Merchandising | p. 219 |
The Merchandising Company | p. 221 |
Introduction | p. 221 |
Purchases | p. 221 |
Adjusting Entry Procedures | p. 222 |
Worksheet Procedures | p. 222 |
Closing Entries | p. 225 |
Financial Statement Treatment | p. 226 |
Summary | p. 227 |
Comprehensive Review Problem | p. 246 |
Costing Merchandise Inventory | p. 252 |
Introduction | p. 252 |
Determining Inventory: Physical Count | p. 252 |
Determining Inventory: Estimation | p. 258 |
Pricing Merchandise | p. 274 |
Trade Discounts | p. 274 |
Chain Discounts | p. 275 |
Cash Discounts | p. 276 |
Markup | p. 278 |
Selling Price as a Basis: Computing Percent Markup | p. 278 |
Cost as a Basis | p. 279 |
Markdowns | p. 280 |
Turnover-Ratios for Inventory | p. 280 |
Number of Days' Sales in Inventory | p. 282 |
| p. 287 |
Specific Bookkeeping and Accounting Topics | p. 295 |
Negotiable Instruments | p. 297 |
Introduction | p. 297 |
Methods of Computing Interest | p. 298 |
Accounting for Notes Payable and Notes Receivable | p. 300 |
Discounting | p. 302 |
Dishonored Notes Receivable | p. 302 |
Recording Uncollectible Accounts | p. 303 |
Computing Uncollectible Accounts | p. 304 |
Recovery of Uncollectible Accounts | p. 306 |
Controlling Cash | p. 319 |
Introduction | p. 319 |
Controlling Cash Receipts | p. 319 |
Controlling Cash Disbursements | p. 319 |
Controlling Cash Balances | p. 320 |
Bank Statements | p. 320 |
Petty Cash | p. 322 |
Payroll | p. 337 |
Gross Pay | p. 337 |
Deductions from Gross Pay | p. 338 |
The Payroll System | p. 341 |
Recording the Payroll | p. 342 |
Property, Plant, and Equipment: Depreciation | p. 353 |
Fixed Assets | p. 353 |
Depreciation and Scrap Value | p. 353 |
Depreciation Methods | p. 354 |
| p. 367 |
Other Business Organizations | p. 371 |
The Partnership | p. 373 |
Characteristics of the Partnership | p. 373 |
Formation of the Partnership | p. 373 |
Division of Net Income and Loss | p. 374 |
Admission of a New Partner | p. 377 |
Liquidation of a Partnership | p. 379 |
The Corporation | p. 403 |
Characteristics of the Corporation | p. 403 |
Corporate Terminology | p. 403 |
Advantages of the Corporate Form | p. 404 |
Disadvantages of the Corporate Form | p. 404 |
Equity Accounting for the Corporation | p. 404 |
Common Stock | p. 406 |
Preferred Stock | p. 406 |
Issue of Stock | p. 407 |
Book Value | p. 409 |
Earnings per Share | p. 409 |
Bond Characteristics | p. 410 |
Funding by Stock versus Funding by Bonds | p. 410 |
| p. 428 |
Mathematics | p. 433 |
Operations with Decimals | p. 433 |
Percentages | p. 434 |
Statistical Methods | p. 437 |
Glossary of Bookkeeping and Accounting Terms | p. 445 |
Index | p. 453 |
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