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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING.................................................................3
WEEK 1 (Allotted time: 3.0 hours).............................................................................................3
Activate Prior Knowledge........................................................................................................3
Acquire New Knowledge.........................................................................................................4
Application............................................................................................................................15
Assessment..........................................................................................................................15
CHAPTER II - ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES.............................................16
Week 2 (Allotted time: 3.0 hours)............................................................................................16
Activate Prior Knowledge.....................................................................................................16
Acquire new Knowledge.......................................................................................................16
Application............................................................................................................................13
Assessment..........................................................................................................................13
CHAPTER III - THE ACCOUNTING EQUATION....................................................................14
Week 3 (Allotted time: 3.0 hours)...........................................................................................14
Activate Prior Knowledge.....................................................................................................14
Acquire New Knowledge.......................................................................................................14
Application............................................................................................................................20
Assessment..........................................................................................................................20
CHAPTER IV - TYPES OF MAJOR ACCOUNTS...................................................................21
Week 4 (Allotted time: 3.0 hours)...........................................................................................21
Activate Prior Knowledge.....................................................................................................21
Acquire New Knowledge.......................................................................................................21
Application............................................................................................................................27
Assessment..........................................................................................................................27
CHAPTER V - BOOKS OF ACCOUNTS AND DOUBLE-ENTRY SYSTEM...........................28
Week 5 (Allotted time: 3.0 hours)............................................................................................28
Activate Prior Knowledge.....................................................................................................28
Acquire New Knowledge.......................................................................................................28
Application............................................................................................................................31
Assessment..........................................................................................................................31
3. Classification of Accounting
Elements
5. Account Titles
6. Books of Account
Learning Objectives
Define accounting.
Describe the nature and purpose of accounting.
Give examples of branches of accounting.
State the function of accounting in a business.
Differentiate between external and internal users of accounting information.
Narrate the history/origin of accounting.
State the forms of business organization.
State the types of business according to their activities.
DEFINITION
Accounting is a process of identifying, recording and communicating economic
information that is useful in making economic decisions.
ASSESSMENT
Assignment #1.1
Learning Objectives
Give examples of accounting concepts and principles.
Apply the concepts in solving accounting problems.
DEFINITION
Accounting concepts and postulates are a set of logical ideas and procedures that
guide the accountant in recording and communicating economic information.
It provide reasonable assurance that information communicated to users is prepared
in a proper way.
ACCOUNTING ASSUMPTIONS
Accounting assumptions are basic notions or fundamental premises on which the
accounting process is based.
It serve as the foundation or bedrock of accounting in order to avoid misunderstanding
but rather enhance the understanding and usefulness of financial statements.
ACCOUNTING STANDARDS
Accounting concepts and principles are either explicit or implicit. Explicit concepts and
principles are those that are specifically mentioned in the Conceptual Framework for
Financial Reporting and in the Philippine Financial Reporting Standards (PFRS). Implicit
concepts and and principles are those that are not specifically mentioned in the foregoing
but are customarily used because of their general and longtime acceptance within the
accountancy profession.
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PHILIPPINE FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS (PFRSs)
The PFRSs are Standards and Interpretations adopted by the FRSC. They consist of the
following:
a. Philippine Financial Reporting Standards (PFRSs);
b. Philippine Accounting Standards (PASs); and
c. Interpretations
RELEVANT REGULATORY BODIES
Other than the Financial Reporting Standards Council (FRSC), the following also affect the
accounting policies used by businesses and their financial reporting:
a. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC);
b. Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR);
c. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP); and
d. Cooperative Development Authority (CDA).
QUALITATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF USEFUL FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Qualitative characteristics are the traits that determine whether an item of information is
useful to users. Without this characteristics, information may be deemed useless.
The qualitative characteristics are broadly classified into two, namely:
1. Fundamental qualitative characteristics - these are the characteristics that make
information useful to others. They consist of the following:
a) Relevance b) Faithful representation
2. Enhancing qualitative characteristics - these characteristics support the fundamental
characteristics. They enhance the usefulness of information. As such, they must be
maximized. The enhancing qualitative characteristics consist of the following:
a) Comparability c) Timeliness
b) Verifiability d) Understandability
RELEVANCE
Information is relevant if it can affect the decisions of users. Relevant information has the following:
1. Predictive value – the information can be used in making predictions
2. Confirmatory value – the information can be used in confirming past predictions
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CHAPTER III - THE ACCOUNTING EQUATION
WEEK 3 (ALLOTTED TIME: 3.0 HOURS)
LIABILITIES – are your present obligations that have resulted from past events and can
require you to give up economic resources when settling them.
Obligation
Obligation means a duty or responsibility. An obligation is either
a. Legal obligation -an obligation that results from a contract, legislation, or other operation of
law; or
b. Constructive obligation - an obligation that results from your past actions (e.g. past practice
or published policies) that have created a valid expectation on others that you will accept
and discharge certain responsibilities.
Giving up of economic resources
Settling the obligation necessarily would require you to pay cash, to transfer other non-cash assets,
or to render a service.
Analysis:
You have no present obligation, and hence no liability, because you have not yet
purchased and received the cellphone, and therefore, you are not required to pay for the
purchase price.
You purchased a cellphone on credit. You took possession over the cellphone but
have not yet paid the purchase price.
Analysis:
You have a present obligation, and hence a liability, because:
a. you have already purchased and received the cellphone; and
b. as a consequence, you are required to pay tor the purchase price.
Your obligation is a legal obligation because it arises from a contract.
You earned taxable income during the period but have not yet paid the tax due to
the government.
Analysis:
You have a present obligation because:
a. you earned taxable income; and
b. as a consequence, you are required to pay the corresponding tax due.
Your obligation is a legal obligation because it arises from legislation (i.e., tax law).
Although not stated in the sales contract you have a publicly-known policy of
providing free repair services tor the goods your business sells. You have
consistently honored this implied policy in the past.
EQUITY – is simply assets minus liabilities.Other terms for equity are “capital”, “net assets”, and
“net worth”.
Illustration 1:
You decided to put up a barbeque stand and have estimated that you will be needing
P2,000 as start-up capital.
You then went to your closet and broke Mr. Piggy Bank which you have been saving for
quite some time now. Alas! You only have P800. You went to your Mama and asked her to
give you P1,200 but she told you that she has been feeding you for far too long. But don't
give up hope yet, Mr. Bombay is just around the corner.
Notes:
Your total assets are now 2,000 - the total amount of economic resources that you
control (P800 from Mr. Piggy plus P1,200 from Mr. Bombay).
Notice that from Piggy to Bombay, the accounting equation remains balanced. The
equality of the accounting equation must be maintained in all the accounting
processes of recording, classifying and summarizing. If the accounting equation
doesn't balance, there is something wrong.
Notice that income is added while expenses are deducted in the equation. These are because
income increases equity while expenses decrease equity.
INCOME - is increases in economic benefits during the period in the form of increases in assets,
or decreases in liabilities, that result in increases in equity, excluding those relating to investments
by the business owner.
EXPENSES - are decreases in economic benefits during the period in the form of decreases in
assets, or increases in liabilities, that result in decreases in equity, excluding those relating to
distributions to the business owner.
Income and expenses (or profit or loss) are closed to equity at the end of each accounting
period. Thus, the adjusted balance to equity is computed as follows:
Equity, beginning 800
Add: Income 10,000
Less: Expenses (6,200)
Equity, Ending 4,600
Your basic accounting equation at the end of the accounting period is as follows:
THE ACCOUNT
An account is the basic storage of information in accounting. It is a record of the increases and
decreases in a specific item of asset, liability, equity, income or expense.
An account may be depicted through a “T-account” with three parts namely:
1. Account Title - describes the specific item of asset, liability, equity, income or expense.
2. Debit side - the left side of the account
3. Credit side - the right side of the account
Account numbers are assigned to the accounts to facilitate recording, cross-referencing, and
retrieval of information. Although there is no standard way of assigning account numbers, account
numbers should be assigned in a manner that accounts are categorized logically.
1. Accounts payable - obligations supported by oral or informal promises to pay by the debtor.
2. Notes payable - obligations supported by written or formal promises to pay by the debtor in the
form of promissory notes.
3. Interest payable - interest incurred but not yet paid. Interest payable arises from interest-
bearing liabilities. For example you will incur interest on your bank loan.
4. Salaries payable -salaries already earned by employees but not yet paid by the business.
5. Utilities payable - utilities (e.g, electricity, water, telephone internet, cable TV, etc.) already
used but not yet paid.
6. Unearned income - Items related to income that were collected in advance before they are
earned. After the earning process is completed, these 1tems are transferred to income.
2. Owner’s drawings - this account is used temporary withdrawals of the owner during the
period. At the end of the accounting period, any balance in this account is closed to the
'Owner's capital account.
INCOME
1. Service fees - revenues earned from rendering services (e.g. services of a spa, services of a
beauty salon, etc.).
2. Sales - revenues earned from the sale of goods (e.g, sale of barbecue, souvenir items, etc.).
3. Interest income - revenues earned from the issuance of interest-bearing receivables.
4. Gains - income earned from the sale of assets (except inventory) or from enhancements of
assets or decreases in liabilities that are not classified as revenue.
EXPENSES
1. Cost of sales (or Cost of goods sold) - represents the value of inventories that have been
sold during the accounting period.
2. Freight-out - represents the sellers costs of delivering goods to customers. Other terms for
freight-out are "delivery expense, "transportation-out," and "carriage outwards”.
3. Salaries expense - represents the salaries earned by employees for the services they have
rendered during the accounting period.
4. Rent expense - represents the rentals that have been used up during the accounting period.
5. Utilities expense - represents the cost of utilities (e.g.electricity, water, telephone, internet,
cable TV, etc.) that have been used during the accounting period.
6. Supplies expense - represents the cost of supplies that have been used during the period.
7. Bad debt expense - the amount of estimated losses from uncollectible accounts receivable
during the period. Other term is "doubtful accounts expense”.
8. Depreciation expense- the portion of the cost of depreciable asset (e.g., building or
equipment) that has been allocated to the current accounting period.
9. Advertising expense - represents the cost of promotional or marketing activities during the
period.
10. Insurance expense - represents the cost of insurance pertaining to the current accounting
period.
11. Taxes and licenses- represents the cost of business and local taxes required by the
government for the conduct of business (e.g mayor s permit, other percentage taxes,
community taxes).
12. Transportation and travel expense - transportation represent the necessary and ordinary
cost of employees getting from one workplace to another which are reimbursable by the
business.
ASSESSMENT
Learning Objectives
Identify the uses of the two books of accounts.
Explain the rules of debits and credits.
JOURNAL
The journal, also called the “book of original entries,” is the accounting record where business
transactions are first recorded.
Types of Journal
1. Special Journal – is used to record transactions with similar nature.
a) Sales Journal - used to record sales on account
b) Purchases Journal - used to record purchases on account
c) Cash receipts Journal - used to record all transactions involving receipts of cash
d) Cash disbursement Journal - used to record all transactions involving payments of cash
2. General Journal – All other transactions that cannot be recorded in the special journals are
recorded in the general journal.