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Week 2 Introduction To Accounting
Week 2 Introduction To Accounting
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ACCOUNTING
Mc Aron J. Monreal, CPA
AGENDA
Introduction
Primary goals
Areas of growth
Timeline
Summary
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INTRODUCTION
Accounting plays a vital role in running a business because it
helps you track income and expenditures, ensure statutory
compliance, and provide investors, management, and
government with quantitative financial information which can
be used in making business decisions.
- Woods, D. 2019. The Role of Accounting in Business and Why It’s Important.
https://www.pdr-cpa.com/knowledge-center/blog/role-of-accounting-in-
business#:~:text=Accounting%20plays%20a%20vital%20role,used%20in
%20making%20business%20decisions.
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INTRODUCTION
ACCOUNTING is the language of businesses that managers use to communicate
the firm’s financial and economic information to external parties such as investors,
shareholders, and creditors. Nobody working in business can afford financial
illiteracy.
Information helps make decision-makers help make informed choices regarding
the allocation of scarce resources under their control. When decision-makers are
able to make well-informed decisions, resources are allocated in a way that better
meets the needs and goals of those within the market.
The task of learning accounting is very similar to the task of learning a new book.
Accountants are called as the scorekeepers of business
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DEFINITIONS OF ACCOUNTING
Accounting is a service activity that provides quantitative information, primarily
financial in nature, about economic entities that are intended to be useful in making
economic decisions. (ASC, 1983)
Accounting is an information system that measures, processes, and communicates
financial information about an economic entity. (FASB, 1978)
Accounting is the process of identifying, measuring, and communicating economic
information to permit informed judgments and decisions by users of the
information (AICPA, 1970)
Accounting is the art of recording, classifying, and summarizing in a significant
manner in terms of money, transactions, and events that are, in part or at least, of a
financial character, and interpreting the results thereof. (AICPA, 1953)
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HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING
PRIMITIVE ACCOUNTING
use of clay tokens (bullae), disks, spheres, and pellets found in Mesopotamia
(modern Iraq). These tokens represented such commodities as sheep, jugs of
oil, bread, or clothing and were used in the Middle East to keep records.
during the 1st dynasty of Babylonia, its law was based on the Code of
Hammurabi, which requires merchants trading goods to give buyers a sealed
memorandum containing the agreed price before it can be considered
enforceable.
At around 3600 B.C. in Babylonia, clay tablets also recorded payments of
wages.
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HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING
MIDDLES AGES
Arabic numerals were also being used as a result of trade with the Near East
allowing columns of numbers to be added or subtracted.
The Inca Empire, used knotted cords of different lengths and colors called
quipu to keep accounting records.
Development of more formal accounting methods is attributed to the merchants
and bankers of Florence, Venice, and Genoa during the 13th to 15th century
Double-entry bookkeeping was the decisive event in European economic
history.
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HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING
THE FLORENTINE APPROACH
Discovery of bank ledger fragments of 1211 (transcribed in 1887 by Pietro
Santini) with the development of accounting in Tuscany, Italy during the 13th
century, as evidenced in the account books or extracts.
The emergence of double entry itself was first witnessed in the ledgers of
Renieri Fini & Brothers and Giovanni Farolfi & Company.
Financial records are survived from 1299-1300, which include the use of debits
and credits and duality of entries. They are the oldest known existing examples
of the double-entry bookkeeping system.
Amatino Manucci was the inventor of double–entry bookkeeping. He used
five books—general ledger, two merchandise ledgers, expenses ledger and cash
book. In addition there were at least two subsidiary books.
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HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING
THE FLORENTINE APPROACH
Luca Pacioli is generally associated with the introduction of double-entry bookkeeping.
He did not invent double-entry bookkeeping but rather described were prevalent
accounting practices of the day.
HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING
SAVARY AND NAPOLEONIC COMMERCIAL CODE
In 1769, Benjamin Workman published the American Accountant, the earliest
known accounting textbook.
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, CORPORATE ORGANIZATION, RAILROADS,
UNITED STATES STEEL
By the early decades of the 19th century, a flurry of textbooks and handbooks on
accounting had appeared, reflecting the impact of the Industrial Revolution.
The specialized field of cost accounting emerged to meet this need for the analysis
of various costs.
Development of corporate forms of organization
created the need for an independent report to provide assurance management’s
financial representations are reliable.
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HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, CORPORATE ORGANIZATION, RAILROADS,
UNITED STATES STEEL
Accountancy reached the shores of the United States of America as a natural result
of investments being made by British businessmen into land opportunities.
Depreciation was formally considered.
Rising problems of matching revenues and expenses.
United States Steel published consolidated financial statements as of December 31,
1902, together with Price Waterhouse & Company’s (PW) assurance that they were
audited and found correct. Perception of the public with USS was positive.
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HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING
SCHMALENBACH AND THE MODEL CHART OF ACCOUNTS
Eugen Schmalenbach laid the foundation for all subsequent developments in
uniform accounting in Germany, leading to publication of his book, The Model
Chart of Accounts
IMPOSITION OF INCOME TAX AND CONFLICTS WITH FINANCIAL
ACCOUNTING
In the year 10 CE, Xin Dynasty’s Emperor Wang Mang instituted an unprecedented
tax-the income tax-at the rate of 10% of profits, for professionals and skilled labor.
The Union government established the Bureau of Internal Revenueto assess
personal and corporate income taxes to help finance the Civil War.
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HISTORY OF ACCOUNTING
IMPOSITION OF INCOME TAX AND CONFLICTS WITH FINANCIAL
ACCOUNTING
In 1943, US Congress passed income tax withholding as the only way to collect on
high tax rates to fund World War II.
On August 1, 1904, the Philippines Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) was formally
organized and made operational under the Secretary of Finance.
INFORMATION AGE
VisiCalc for the Apple II, the first electronic spreadsheet, the most important
business application for personal computers
Outsourcing, financial markets trading, cryptocurrencies
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THE ASEAN
ESTABLISHMENT AND MEMBER STATES
Founding fathers of The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Indonesia,
Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
THREE PILLARS OF ASEAN Community
1. ASEAN Political-Security Community
2. ASEAN Economic Community
3. ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community
FOUR PILLARS OF ASEAN Economic Community
1. Single market and production base
2. Competitive Economic Region
3. Equitable economic development
4. Integration into the global economy
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THE ASEAN
MUTUAL RECOGNITION ARRANGMENTS (MRAs) AND ASEAN CHARTERED
PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT
MRAs- contracts between a National Accountancy Body (NAB) and/or Professional
Regulatory Authority (PRA) from countries that have signed the General Agreement
on Trade in Services in 1995 allowing professional service providers registered in
signatory countries to be equally recognized in another signatory country.
A Professional Accountant is eligible to apply through the Monitoring Committee of
his Country of Origin, to be registered as an ASEAN Chartered Professional
Accountant (ACPA) on the ASEAN Chartered Professional Accountant Register
( ACPAR) subject to certain qualifications
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THE ASEAN
MUTUAL RECOGNITION ARRANGMENTS (MRAs) AND ASEAN CHARTERED
PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT
To practice in a host country, an ACPA need to apply to become a Registered Foreign
Professional Accountant (RFPA).
ASEAN QUALIFICATIONS REFERENCE FRAMEWORK (AQRF)
AQRF- a common reference framework which functions as a device to enable
comparisons of qualifications of skilled labor across ASEAN Member States.
This framework will function as a device to enable comparisons of qualifications and
providing the concept of “best fit” between qualifications from different countries.
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TYPES OF BUSINESS
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TYPES OF BUSINESS
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TYPES OF BUSINESS
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FUNDAMENTALS OF ACCOUNTING
1. ENTITY CONCEPT
The most basic concept in accounting. The transactions of different
entities should not be accounted for together.
2. PERIODICITY CONCEPT
It will be aimless to wait for the actual last day of operations to perfectly
measure the entity’s profit. This concept allows the users to obtain timely
information to serve as a basis on making decisions about future
activities.
3. STABLE MONETARY UNIT CONCEPT
4. GOING CONCERN
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FUNDAMENTALS OF ACCOUNTING
3. STABLE MONETARY UNIT CONCEPT
The Philippine peso is a reasonable unit of measure and that its
purchasing power is relatively stable. This is the basis for ignoring the
effects of inflation in the accounting records.
4. GOING CONCERN
The reporting entity is assumed to be in going concern and will continue
operation for the forseeable future. This assumption underlies the
depreciation of assets over their useful lives.
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BASIC PRINCIPLES
1. Objectivity Principle
Without this principle, accounting records would be based on whims and opinions
and is therefore subject to disputes.
2. Historical Cost
This principle states that acquired assets should be recorded at their actual cost and
not at what management thinks they are worth as at reporting date.
3. Revenue Recognition Principle
Revenue is to be recognized in the accounting period when goods are delivered or
services are rendered or performed.
4. Expense Recognition Principle
Expenses should be recognized in the accounting period in which goods are
delivered or services are rendered or performed.
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BASIC PRINCIPLES
5. Adequate Disclosure
Requires that all relevant information that would affect the user’s understanding
and assessment of the accounting entity be disclosed in the financial statements.
6. Materiality
Information should be significant enough to affect evaluations and decisions.
Materiality depends on the size and nature of the item judged in the particular
circumstances of its omission.
7. Consistency Principle
The firms should use the same accounting method from period to period to
achieve comparability over time within a single enterprise. However, changes are
permitted if justifiable and disclosed in the financial statements.
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