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Productivity Tip:
You have your to-do list for the day, but the hardest question is where do you start? Tackle the hardest
task first.
A. LESSON PREVIEW/REVIEW
2) Activity 2 (LO1, LO2, & LO3): What I Know Chart, part 1 (3 mins)
Alright! Let’s see what you already know, answer the first column (What I know). Leave the
third column (What I Learned) blank at this time.
preparing financial
statements.
Accounting information system is the system of collecting and processing transactions, data and
disseminating financial information to interested parties.
Accounting Records
Account
Account is the basic storage of information in accounting, e.g., “cash,” “land,” “accounts payable,” etc.
Accounts in the ledger follow the format of a T-account.
Types of Accounts
1. Real / Permanent accounts
- accounts that are not closed at the end of the accounting period. These are the accounts found in
the statement of financial position (Assets, Liabilities, and Equity)
2. Nominal/ Temporary accounts
- accounts that are closed at the end of the accounting period. These include all income and
expenses accounts, drawings and dividends accounts,clearing accounts and suspense accounts.
3. Mixed accounts
- are accounts that have both real and nominal account components.
4. Contra accounts
- are accounts that are deducted from a related account (e.g. depreciation)
5. Adjunct accounts
- are accounts that are added to a related account(e.g. premium on bonds payable)
Trial Balance
Trial Balance is a list of general ledger accounts and their balances. It is prepared to check the equality of
total debits and total credits in the ledger.
LO3: Explain the errors revealed and not revealed by a trial balance.
2. Recording one part of an entry at a different amount than the other part.
3. Transplacement error (slide error) on one side of an entry. (e.g., 2,000 is recorded as 200 or 20,000)
4. Transposition error on one side of an entry. (E.g., 12,341 is recorded as 12,431 or 12,143)
Adjusting Entries
Adjusting entries are entries made prior to the preparation of financial statements to update certain
accounts so that they reflect correct balances as of the designated time.
Financial Statements
Financial statements are the means by which the information accumulated and processed in financial
accounting is periodically communicated to the users.
● Expenses
(a) Asset method- the original payment is debited to an expense account. (b) Expense method-
the original payment is debited to an asset account.
Reversing entries
Reversing entries may be made on the following:
(a) all accruals,
(b) prepayments initially recorded using the expense method, and (c) unearned
income initially recorded using the income method.
Part I. Form groups of 5. Members must exchange ideas and present their answers to the class.
Recall the various definitions of Accounting from the following organizations. (AAA | ASC | AICPA )
American Accounting Association Accounting is a process of identifying,
(Hint: is a process ) measuring and communicating economic
information to permit informed judgments
and decisions by users of the information.
Accounting Standards Council Accounting is a service activity. Its
(Hint: service) function is to provide quantitative information,
primarily financial in nature, about economic
entities that is intended to be useful in
making economic decisions.
Part III. What are the steps involved in the accounting cycle. Enumerate/Explain each step briefly.
Step 1 Identifying and analysing
Step 2 Journalizing
Step 3 Posting
C. LESSON WRAP-UP
1. Work Tracker
You are done with this session! Let’s track your progress. Shade the session number you just
completed.
From a rating of 1-10, determine if you have learned all the learning objectives. What is the reason
for your rating?
I choose 9 because I’m still a little bet confuse about methods of initial recoding.
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2) Assignment
To enhance your knowledge regarding the topic, answer Problems 1, 2, and 3 in your book. Your
teacher will provide the key answers later on.
FAQs
1. Accounting process can be classified into two parts, namely recording phase and summarizing phase.
KEY TO CORRECTIONS
Activity 1: Introduction/Review
1. True 2. False
- The matching principle requires that those costs and expenses incurred in earning a revenue shall
be reported in the same period. The matching principle is associated with the accrual basis of
accounting and adjusting entries.
Activity 4: Skill-building Activities. Give 1 point for each item. Total of 15 points in all.
II. Accounting Cycle (2 points) represents the procedures or steps used in recording transactions and
preparing financial statements. The accounting cycle implements the accounting process.
1. Identifying and analyzing transactions or business documents- the accountant determines the impact
of the transactions on the financial position as represented by the basic accounting equation “assets
equals liabilities plus entity”
2. Journalizing- this is the process of recording the transactions in a journal.
3. Posting- transactions as classified and recorded in the journal are transferred to the appropriate
accounts in the general ledger and subsidiary ledgers ledger, if appropriate.
4. Preparing the unadjusted trial balance
5. Preparing the adjusting entries
6. Preparing the adjusted trial balance
7. Preparing the financial statements
8. Closing the books
9. Preparing the post-closing trial balance
10. Preparing the reversing entries
Activity 6: Check for Understanding.Your teacher will provide the key answers in this activity.
Assignment. Your teacher will provide the key answers in this assignment.
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