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Accounting Lexture numero uno

1.Accounting does three basic activities: identifies, records, and communicates all the economic events
of the organization to interested users.

Bookkeeping is recording your company’s financial transactions into organized accounts on a daily basis.

2.Users are internal and external. Internal; Internal users are part of company’s hierarchy. (Managers,
employees, CEO) External users are shareholders, stakeholders for example the government, investors,
or creditors. (You owe them money)

3. Types of accounting: Financial, Cost, Managerial, Tax.

4.Accounting links decision makers with economic activities and the result of their decisions.

4. Activities: Financing, Operating, and Investing.

5.Ethics in financing: if activities are right or wrong, honest, or dishonest, fair, or not fair.

6.Accounting principles: Cost Principle and Fair Value principle. Qualities: relevance and faithful
representation.

7.Assumptions: Monetary unit assumption and Economy entity assumption.

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