Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1.1.2 Branches
Branches
Financial Accounting provides general-purpose financial reports to various external users
Auditing External audit – provided by an independent third party that reviews a company’s
financial statements to assess their fairness and adherence to accounting principles
Internal audit – provided by internal auditors that evaluate the company's policies
and procedures to identify and weakness, mismanagement, waste, or fraud
Cost Accounting accounting and classifying costs and expenses to determine total cost of
a product/service
Managerial Accounting provides internal financial reports, mainly the managers, for decision-making
Government Accounting prepares financial reports for the government and its agencies
Tax Accounting prepares tax returns and ensures tax compliance
Accounting Education accounting for the academe and research
Accounting Information System a system that a business uses to collect, store, manage, process, retrieve, and report
its financial data that are used by various internal users
Forensic Accounting focuses on legal affairs such as inquiry into fraud, legal cases, disputes and claims
resolution
1.4.2 As to activity
• Service – a business that provides service
• Merchandising / Trading – a business that buys and sells goods
• Manufacturing – a business that converts raw materials to finished goods
**Regulated professions cannot be established as a corporation because this will go against public policy by giving
practicing professionals a way to avoid personal liability. E.g., Accountants, Architects, Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers
**Owners are called stockholders (shareholders) since ownership is divided into number of stocks (shares) and is
evidenced by holding a stock certificate. Stockholders may be directors so they will receive a directors’ remuneration.
Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) refer to a common set of rules, procedures, practices and standards
followed in the preparation and presentation of financial statements issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board
(FASB). GAAP are rules that accountants follow in recording business transactions and preparing financial statements.
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REFERENCES
• IFRS Foundation (2018, March). Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting.
• Price, J., Haddock, M., & Farina, M., (2021). College Accounting, 16th edition. McGraw-Hill Education.
• Robinson, Sheila & Wood, Frank. (2010) Edexcel IGCSE, Pearson Company.
• Spiceland, Sepe, Thomas, Tan, Low, Low (2019), Intermediate Accounting Global Edition (2nd Edition), McGraw- Hill Education (Asia).
• Electronic Sources:
o Republic Act No. 386 An act to ordain and institute the Civil Code of the Philippines. [On-line] Available
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1949/06/18/republic-act-no-386/
o Republic Act No. 11232 An act providing for the Revised Corporation Code of the Philippines [On-line] Available
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/downloads/2019/02feb/20190220-RA-11232-RRD.pdf