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Intermediate Accounting

IFRS Edition
Kieso, Weygandt, Warfield
Fourth Edition

Chapter 3
The Accounting Information System
Prepared by
Coby Harmon
University of California, Santa Barbara
Westmont College

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Learning Objectives

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:


LO 1 Describe the basic accounting information system.
LO 2 Record and summarize basic transactions.
LO 3 Identify and prepare adjusting entries.
LO 4 Prepare financial statements from the adjusted trial
balance and prepare closing entries.
LO 5 Prepare financial statements for a merchandising
company.

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PREVIEW OF CHAPTER 3

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Learning Objective 1
Describe the basic accounting
information system.

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Accounting Information System (1 of 3)
• Collects and processes transaction data.
• Disseminate financial information to interested parties.
• Varies widely from business to business – tailored made.
• Factors to shape the systems
o Nature of business
o Type of transactions
o Size of business
o Volume of data to be handled
o Informational requirements

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Accounting Information System (2 of 3)
A good accounting information system helps management answer
such questions as:
• How much and what kind of debt is outstanding?
• Were our sales higher this period than last?
• What assets do we have?
• What were our cash inflows and outflows?
• Did we make a profit last period?
• Are any of our product lines or divisions operating at a loss?
• Can we safely increase our dividends to shareholders?
• Is our rate of return on net assets increasing?

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Accounting Information System (3 of 3)
Ledger Transaction Account Real Account Event

Nominal
Basic Terminology Account
 The happening of consequence which is the source or cause of changes in
assets, liabilities, and equity.
 An external event involving a transfer or exchange between two or more
entities.
 A systematic arrangement that shows the effect of transactions and other
events on a specific element.
 Asset, liability, and equity accounts
 Revenue, expense, and dividend accounts; except for dividends
 “Book of original entry”

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Accounting Information System (3 of 3)
Adjusting Financial Closing
Trial Balance Journal
Entries Statements Entries

Posting
Basic Terminology
 The “book of original entry” where the company initially records
transactions and the selected other events.
 The process of transferring the essential facts and figures from the journals
to the ledger accounts.
 The list of all open accounts in the ledger and their balances.
 Entries made at the end of an accounting period to bring all accounts up to
date.
 The collection, tabulation, and final summarization of the accounting data.
 The formal process to reduce all nominal accounts to zero and determine
and transfer the net income/loss to an equity account.
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Debits and Credits
• The terms debit and credit have Latin roots. The term debit
comes from the word debitum, meaning "what is due," and
credit comes from creditum, defined as "something entrusted
to another or a loan.“
• However, the terms debit (Dr.) and credit (Cr.) also mean left
and right, respectively.
• Double-entry accounting system (two-sided effect).
• Recording done by debiting at least one account and crediting
another.
• DEBITS must equal CREDITS.

Source: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1225&context=aah_journal

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Double Entry (Debit and Credit) Accounting
System

ILLUSTRATION 3.1

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The Basic Accounting Equation

ILLUSTRATION 3.2

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The Expanded Accounting Equation

ILLUSTRATION 3.3
The equation must be in balance after every transaction. For
every Debit there must be a Credit.

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Transactions for Perez Inc.
Transaction 1

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Transactions for Perez Inc.
Transaction 2

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Transactions for Perez Inc.
Transaction 3

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Transactions for Perez Inc.
Transaction 4

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Transactions for Perez Inc.
Transaction 5

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Transactions for Perez Inc.
Transaction 6

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Transactions for Perez Inc.
Transaction 7

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Transactions for Perez Inc.
Transaction 8

Note that the accounting equation equality is maintained after recording each
transaction.

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Financial Statements and Ownership Structure

Ownership structure dictates the types of accounts that are part of the
equity section.
Proprietorship or Partnership Corporation
• Owner’s Capital • Share capital
• Owner’s Drawing • Share premium
• Dividends
• Retained Earnings

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Income Statement and Equity Relationships

ILLUSTRATION 3.4

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Effects of Transactions on Equity Accounts

ILLUSTRATION 3.5

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The Accounting Cycle

ILLUSTRATION 3.6

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The Accounting Cycle
Identify and Recording Transactions and Other Events

An item should be recognized in the financial statements


provided that the item meets the definition of one of the
elements of financial statements and if such recognition
provides users of financial statements with
a) relevant information about the asset or the liability
and about any income, expenses, or changes in equity
and
b) a faithful representation of the asset or the liability
and of any income, expenses, or changes in equity.

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Learning Objective 2
Record and summarize basic
transactions.

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Technique of Journalizing

Recording transactions and events that effect particular asset, liability, equity,
revenue, and expense accounts.
September 1: Shareholders invested ₺15,000 cash in the corporation in exchange
for ordinary shares.
September 1: Purchase computer equipment for ₺7,000 cash.

ILLUSTRATION 3.7

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Posting a Journal Entry

Posting – The process of transferring amounts from the journal to


the ledger accounts.

ILLUSTRATION 3.8

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Chart of Accounts (CoAs)

Chart of accounts lists the accounts and the account numbers


that identify their location in the ledger.
The numbering system that identifies the accounts usually
starts with the statement of financial position accounts and
follows with the income statement accounts.

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Chart of Accounts Illustration

ILLUSTRATION 3.9

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The Recording Process Illustrated

The next ten slides show the basic steps in the recording process,
using the October transactions of Yazici Advertising A.Ş. Yazici’s
accounting period is a month.
A basic analysis and a debit-credit analysis precede the journalizing
and posting of each transaction.
For simplicity, we use the T-account form in the illustrations instead
of the standard account form.

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The Recording Process Illustrated
Investment of Cash by Shareholders

ILLUSTRATION 3.10

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The Recording Process Illustrated
Purchase of Office Equipment

ILLUSTRATION 3.11

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The Recording Process Illustrated
Receipt of Cash for Future Service

ILLUSTRATION 3.12

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The Recording Process Illustrated
Payment of Monthly Rent

ILLUSTRATION 3.13

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The Recording Process Illustrated
Payment for Insurance

ILLUSTRATION 3.14

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The Recording Process Illustrated
Purchase of Supplies on Credit

ILLUSTRATION 3.15

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The Recording Process Illustrated
Signing a Contract

ILLUSTRATION 3.16
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The Recording Process Illustrated
Declaration and Payment of Dividend

ILLUSTRATION 3.17

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The Recording Process Illustrated
Payment of Salaries

ILLUSTRATION 3.18

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The Recording Process Illustrated
Receipt of Cash for Services Provided

ILLUSTRATION 3.19

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Trial Balance

A Trial Balance
• List of each account and its balance at a given time in the
order in which they appear in the ledger.
• Debit balances listed in the left column and credit balance
in the right column.
• Used to prove the mathematical equality of debit and
credit balances.
• Uncovers errors in journalizing and posting.

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Trial Balance (Unadjusted)

ILLUSTRATION 3.20
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Learning Objective 3
Identify and prepare adjusting entries.

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Identify and Prepare Adjusting Entries

Makes it possible to:


• Report on the statement of financial position the
appropriate assets, liabilities, and equity at the statement
date.
• Report on the income statement the proper revenues and
expenses for the period.
• Adjusting entries are required every time a company,
prepares financial statements.
• Companies date the entries as of the statement of
financial position date.
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Categories of Adjusting Entries

ILLUSTRATION 3.21

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Deferrals

Deferrals are expenses or revenues that are recognized at a date


later than the point when cash was originally exchanged.
Two types of deferrals
• Prepaid expenses
• Unearned revenues
If a company does not make an adjustment for these deferrals,
• the asset and liability are overstated, and
• the related expense and revenue are understated.

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Adjusting Entries for Deferrals

ILLUSTRATION 3.22

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Adjusting Entries for Deferrals
Adjustment for Supplies

ILLUSTRATION 3.23

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Adjusting Entries for Deferrals
Supplies
Statement Presentation:
Supplies identifies that portion of
the asset’s cost that will provide
future economic benefit.

ILLUSTRATION 3.37

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Adjusting Entries for Deferrals
Supplies Expense
Statement Presentation:
Supplies expense shows a balance
of ₺15,000, which equals the cost
of supplies used in October.

ILLUSTRATION 3.36

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Adjusting Entries for Deferrals
Adjustment for Insurance

ILLUSTRATION 3.24

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Adjusting Entries for Deferrals
Prepaid Insurance
Statement Presentation:
Prepaid Insurance represents the
unexpired cost for the remaining
11 months of coverage.

ILLUSTRATION 3.37

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Adjusting Entries for Deferrals
Insurance Expense
Statement Presentation:
Insurance expense identifies
that portion of the asset’s cost
that expired in October.

ILLUSTRATION 3.36

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Adjusting Entries for Deferrals
Adjustment for Depreciation

ILLUSTRATION 3.25

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Adjusting Entries for Deferrals
Accumulated Depreciation
Statement Presentation:
Accumulated Depreciation is a
contra asset account.

ILLUSTRATION 3.37

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Adjusting Entries for Deferrals
Depreciation Expense
Statement Presentation:
Depreciation expense identifies
that portion of the asset’s cost
that expired in October.

ILLUSTRATION 3.36

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Adjusting Entries for Deferrals
Adjustment for Unearned Service Revenue

ILLUSTRATION 3.27

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Adjusting Entries for Deferrals
Unearned Service Revenue
Statement Presentation:
Unearned service revenue
represents the remaining
advertising services expected to
be performed in the future.

ILLUSTRATION 3.37

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Adjusting Entries for Deferrals
Service Revenue
Statement Presentation:
Service revenue shows total
revenue recognized in October.
*The Service revenue balance is
after posting an adjusting entry
for accrued revenue shown in
Slide 62.

ILLUSTRATION 3.36

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals

Accruals are made to record


• revenues for services performed and
• expenses incurred in the current accounting period.
Without an accrual adjustment, the
• revenue account (and the related asset account) or the
• expense account (and the related liability account) are
understated.

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals

ILLUSTRATION 3.28

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals
Adjustment for Receivable and Revenue
Accounts

ILLUSTRATION 3.29

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals
Accounts Receivable
Statement Presentation:
Accounts Receivable shows total
amount owed by customers on
October 31, 2022.

ILLUSTRATION 3.37

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals
Service Revenue
Statement Presentation:
Service revenue shows total
revenue recognized in October.

ILLUSTRATION 3.36

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals
Formula for Computing Interest
Accrued Interest. Yazici Advertising signed a three-month note payable in
the amount of ₺50,000 on October 1. The note requires interest at an
annual rate of 12 percent. Three factors determine the amount of the
interest accumulation:

ILLUSTRATION 3.30

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals
Adjustment for Interest

ILLUSTRATION 3.31

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals
Interest Payable
Statement Presentation:
Interest Payable shows the
interest owed by Yazici
Advertising on October 31,
2022.

ILLUSTRATION 3.37

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals
Interest Expense
Statement Presentation:
Interest Expense shows total
interest recognized in October.

ILLUSTRATION 3.36

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals
Adjustment for Salaries and Wages Expense

ILLUSTRATION 3.32

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals
Adjustment for Salaries and Wages Expense

ILLUSTRATION 3.33

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals
Salaries and Wages Payable
Statement Presentation:
Salaries and Wages Payable
shows the salaries and wages
owed by Yazici Advertising on
October 31, 2022.

ILLUSTRATION 3.37

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals
Salaries and Wages Expense
Statement Presentation:
Salaries and Wages Expense
shows total salaries and wages
recognized in October.

ILLUSTRATION 3.36

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals
Adjustment for Bad Debt

ILLUSTRATION 3.34

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
Statement Presentation:
Allowance for Doubtful
Accounts is a contra asset
account.

ILLUSTRATION 3.37

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Adjusting Entries for Accruals
Bad Debt Expense
Statement Presentation:
Bad Debt Expense is a non-cash
expense.

ILLUSTRATION 3.36

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Adjusted Trial Balance

Shows the balance of all


accounts, after adjusting
entries, at the end of the
accounting period.
Proves the equality of the
total debit and credit
balances

ILLUSTRATION 3.35

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Learning Objective 4
Prepare financial statements from the
adjusted trial balance and prepare closing
entries.

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Preparing Financial Statements
Income Statement and Retained Earnings Statement

ILLUSTRATION 3.36

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Preparing Financial Statements
Statement of Financial Position

ILLUSTRATION 3.37

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Closing
Closing Process
• Reduce the balance of nominal (temporary) accounts to zero in
preparation for the next period’s transactions.
• Transfer all revenue and expense account balances (income
statement accounts) to an account called Income Summary.
• Income Summary balance is then transferred to Retained
Earnings.
• Statement of financial position (asset, liability, and equity)
accounts are not closed.
• Dividends are closed directly to Retained Earnings.

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Closing Entries Journalized

ILLUSTRATION 3.38

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Posting of Closing Entries

ILLUSTRATION 3.39

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Post-Closing Trial Balance

ILLUSTRATION 3.40

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The Accounting Cycle Summarized

1. Enter the transactions of the period in appropriate journals.


2. Post from the journals to the ledger (or ledgers).
3. Prepare an unadjusted trial balance (trial balance).
4. Prepare adjusting journal entries and post to the ledger(s).
5. Prepare a trial balance after adjusting (adjusted trial balance).
6. Prepare the financial statements from the adjusted trial
balance.
7. Prepare closing journal entries and post to the ledger(s).
8. Prepare a trial balance after closing (post-closing trial balance).
9. Prepare reversing entries (optional) and post to the ledger(s).
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Learning Objective 5
Prepare financial statements for a
merchandising company.

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Financial Statements for a Merchandising
Company
The income statement for Ciner Cabinets is shown in
Illustration 3.41.
The income statement classifies amounts into such categories
as gross profit on sales, income from operations, income
before income taxes, and net income.
Earnings per share information is required to be shown on the
face of the income statement for a company, although we
omit this item here.

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Income Statement for a Merchandising
Company

ILLUSTRATION 3.41
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Retained Earnings Statement for a
Merchandising Co.

ILLUSTRATION 3.42

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Statement of Financial Position for a
Merchandising Company

ILLUSTRATION 3.43

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Learning Objective 6
Differentiate the cash basis of
accounting from the accrual basis of
accounting.

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Cash-Basis vs. Accrual-Basis Accounting

Most companies use accrual-basis accounting. They


• recognize revenue when the performance obligation is satisfied and
• expenses in the period incurred, without regard to the time of receipt
or payment of cash.
Under the strict cash-basis, companies Cash basis financial
• statements are not
record revenue only when they receive cash, and
in conformity with
• record expenses only when they disperse cash. IFRS.

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Cash-Basis Accounting
Income Statement
Illustration: Eser Contractor signs an agreement to construct a garage for
₺22,000. In January, Eser begins construction, incurs costs of ₺18,000 on
credit, and by the end of January delivers a finished garage to the buyer.
In February, Eser collects ₺22,000 cash from the customer. In March, Eser
pays the ₺18,000 due the creditors.

ILLUSTRATION 3A.1

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Cash-Basis Accounting
Statement of Financial Position
Illustration: Eser Contractor signs an agreement to construct a garage for
₺22,000. In January, Eser begins construction, incurs costs of ₺18,000 on
credit, and by the end of January delivers a finished garage to the buyer.
In February, Eser collects ₺22,000 cash from the customer. In March, Eser
pays the ₺18,000 due the creditors.

ILLUSTRATION 3A.3

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Accrual-Basis Accounting
Income Statement
Illustration: Eser Contractor signs an agreement to construct a garage for
₺22,000. In January, Eser begins construction, incurs costs of ₺18,000 on
credit, and by the end of January delivers a finished garage to the buyer.
In February, Eser collects ₺22,000 cash from the customer. In March, Eser
pays the ₺18,000 due the creditors.

ILLUSTRATION 3A.2

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Accrual-Basis Accounting
Statement of Financial Position
Illustration: Eser Contractor signs an agreement to construct a garage for
₺22,000. In January, Eser begins construction, incurs costs of ₺18,000 on
credit, and by the end of January delivers a finished garage to the buyer.
In February, Eser collects ₺22,000 cash from the customer. In March, Eser
pays the ₺18,000 due the creditors.

ILLUSTRATION 3A.4

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Conversion from Cash to Accrual Basis

Illustration: Dr. L. Liwan, like many small business owners, keeps her accounting
records on a cash basis. In the year 2022, Dr. Liwan received ₺300,000 from her
patients and paid ₺170,000 for operating expenses, resulting in an excess of cash
receipts over disbursements of ₺130,000 (₺300,000 - ₺170,000). At January 1
and December 31, 2022, she has accounts receivable, unearned service revenue,
accrued liabilities, and prepaid expenses as shown below.

ILLUSTRATION 3A.5

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Service Revenue Computation

To convert the amount of cash received from patients to service revenue on an accrual
basis, we must consider changes in accounts receivable and unearned service revenue
during the year.

ILLUSTRATION 3A.6

ILLUSTRATION 3A.7

ILLUSTRATION 3A.8
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Operating Expense Computation

To convert cash paid for operating expenses during the year to operating expenses on an
accrual basis, we must consider changes in prepaid expenses and accrued liabilities.

ILLUSTRATION 3A.9

ILLUSTRATION 3A.10

ILLUSTRATION 3A.11
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Conversion Worksheet

ILLUSTRATION 3A.12

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Theoretical Weakness of the Cash Basis

• Today’s economy is considerably more lubricated by credit


than by cash.
• The accrual basis, not the cash basis, recognizes all aspects
of the credit phenomenon.
• Investors, creditors, and other decision makers seek timely
information about a company’s future cash flows.

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Learning Objective 7
Identify adjusting entries that may be
reversed.

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Using Reversing Entries for Accruals

A company most often uses reversing entries to reverse two


types of adjusting entries:
1. accrued revenues and
2. accrued expenses.

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Using Reversing Entries for Accruals
January February

Report deadline Invoices received 105 Baht


6 February 20X1 8 February 20X1

Expenses incurred

End of month
What should we do with the expenses? 31 January 20X1

1) Wait for invoices and submit late 3) Send report on 6th with fake numbers

2) Send report on 6th without expenses 4) None is correct.

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Using Reversing Entries for Accruals
January February
Dec’s Expenses were
100 Baht Report deadline Invoices received 105 Baht
6 February 20X1 8 February 20X1
It is calculable at 103
Baht

Expenses incurred

End of month
How much should we record the expenses? 31 January 20X1

1) 100 Baht 3) 103 Baht

2) 105 Baht 4) None is correct.

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Comparison of Entries for Accruals, With
and Without Reversing Entries

ILLUSTRATION 3B.1

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Using Reversing Entries for Deferrals

Up to this point, we assumed the recording of all deferrals as


prepaid expense or unearned revenue. In some cases, though, a
company records deferrals directly in expense or revenue accounts.
When this occurs, a company may also reverse deferrals.
To illustrate the use of reversing entries for prepaid expenses, we
use the following transaction and adjustment data.
1. December 10 (initial entry): Purchased 20,000 of supplies with
cash.
2. December 31 (adjusting entry): Determined that 5,000 of
supplies are on hand.

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Comparison of Entries for Deferrals, With
and Without Reversing Entries

ILLUSTRATION 3B.2

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Summary of Reversing Entries

1. All accruals should be reversed.


2. All deferrals for which a company debited or credited the
original cash transaction to an expense or revenue account
should be reversed.
3. Adjusting entries for depreciation and bad debts are not
reversed.
Reversing entries are optional to be used.

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Learning Objective 8
Prepare a 10-column worksheet.

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Using A Worksheet: The Accounting Cycle
Revisited
A company prepares a worksheet either on
• columnar paper or
• within a computer spreadsheet.
A company uses the worksheet to adjust
• account balances and
• to prepare financial statements.

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Worksheet Columns

Worksheet Columns
• Trial Balance Columns
• Adjustment Columns
• Adjusted Trial Balance
• Income Statement
• Statement of Financial Position

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Use of a Worksheet

ILLUSTRATION 3C.1

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Preparing Financial Statements from a
Worksheet
Preparing Financial Statements from a Worksheet
The Worksheet:
• provides information needed for preparation of the
financial statements.
• Sorts data into appropriate columns, which facilitates the
preparation of the statements.

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Learning Objective 9
Compare the accounting information
systems under IFRS and U.S. GAAP.

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Global Accounting Insights

As indicated in this chapter, companies must have an effective


accounting system. In the wake of accounting scandals at U.S.
companies like Sunbeam, Rite-Aid, Xerox, and WorldCom,
U.S. lawmakers demanded higher assurance on the quality of
accounting reports. Since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act (SOX), companies that trade on U.S. exchanges are
required to place renewed focus on their accounting systems
to ensure accurate reporting.

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Global Accounting Insights
Similarities
• International companies use the same set of procedures and records
to keep track of transaction data. Thus, the material in Chapter 3
dealing with the account, general rules of debit and credit, and steps
in the recording process—the journal, ledger, and chart of accounts—
is the same under both U.S. GAAP and IFRS.
• Transaction analysis is the same under U.S. GAAP and IFRS but, as you
will see in later chapters, different standards sometimes impact how
transactions are recorded.

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Global Accounting Insights
More Similarities
• Both the FASB and IASB go beyond the basic definitions
provided in this textbook for the key elements of financial
statements, that is, assets, liabilities, equity, revenues, and
expenses.
• A trial balance under U.S. GAAP follows the same format as
shown in the textbook. As shown in the textbook, currency
signs are typically used only in the trial balance and the
financial statements. The same practice is followed under U.S.
GAAP.

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Differences
• Rules for accounting for specific events sometimes differ across countries.
For example, European companies rely less on historical cost and more on
fair value than U.S. companies. Despite the differences, the double- entry
accounting system is the basis of accounting systems worldwide.
• Internal controls are a system of checks and balances designed to prevent
and detect fraud and errors. While most public U.S. companies have these
systems in place, many non-U.S. companies have never completely
documented them nor had an independent auditor attest to their
effectiveness. Both of these actions are required under S OX. Enhanced
internal control standards apply only to large public companies listed on U.S.
exchanges.

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On the Horizon
High-quality international accounting requires both high-quality
accounting standards and high-quality auditing. Similar to the
convergence of U.S. GAAP and IFRS, there is a movement to improve
international auditing standards. The International Auditing and
Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) functions as an independent
standard-setting body. It works to establish high-quality auditing and
assurance and quality-control standards throughout the world. Whether
the IAASB adopts internal control provisions similar to those in S OX
remains to be seen. You can follow developments in the international
audit arena at http:// www.ifac.org/iaasb/.

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