Financial accounting is the systematic process of recording, classifying, and summarizing business transactions and presenting financial information in the form of financial statements such as the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. It provides important information about a business's profits, financial position, and cash flows to stakeholders and management. Accrual accounting is preferred over cash accounting as it records transactions when incurred rather than when payment is made.
Financial accounting is the systematic process of recording, classifying, and summarizing business transactions and presenting financial information in the form of financial statements such as the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. It provides important information about a business's profits, financial position, and cash flows to stakeholders and management. Accrual accounting is preferred over cash accounting as it records transactions when incurred rather than when payment is made.
Financial accounting is the systematic process of recording, classifying, and summarizing business transactions and presenting financial information in the form of financial statements such as the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. It provides important information about a business's profits, financial position, and cash flows to stakeholders and management. Accrual accounting is preferred over cash accounting as it records transactions when incurred rather than when payment is made.
Financial accounting is the systematic process of recording, classifying, and summarizing business transactions and presenting financial information in the form of financial statements such as the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. It provides important information about a business's profits, financial position, and cash flows to stakeholders and management. Accrual accounting is preferred over cash accounting as it records transactions when incurred rather than when payment is made.
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Dagatan WHAT IS FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING ? WHAT IS FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING?
Financial accounting is the
systematic procedure of recording, classifying, summarizing, analyzing, and reporting business transactions. The primary objective is to reveal the profits and losses of a business. WHAT IS FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING?
It provides a true and fair evaluation
of a business. It, therefore, safeguards the interests of stakeholders. WHAT IS FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING?
It also includes bookkeeping,
classification, and interpretation of business transactions. The profitability and financial position of a firm are ascertained. WHAT IS FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING?
It represents revenue, expenses,
assets, liabilities, and equity in respective financial statements, i.e., income statements, cash flow statements, and balance sheets. 2 TYPES OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING ? 1. CASH ACCOUNTING
This kind of financial accounting
considers cash transactions. Thus, each transaction has a debit and credit entry. 1. CASH ACCOUNTING
Debit- is either the increase in assets
and expenses or the decrease in liabilities and income.
Credit- is either the increase in
liabilities and income or the decrease in assets and expenses. 1. CASH ACCOUNTING
The transaction entered are only recorded
upon the receipt of the cash. There is no clarity if there was any revenue or expense generated in between. This is applicable only in small businesses where there is no requirement of any statement, a few transactions are to be recorded, it has limited fixed capital and few employees. 2. ACCRUAL ACCOUNTING
Most corporations prefer this method
to record cash and non-cash business transactions This method emphasizes the documentation of trades as and when they occur, irrespective of monetary exchange. 2. ACCRUAL ACCOUNTING
It works on two principles, revenue
recognition and matching revenue. It records every transaction digitally. The revenue earned but amount not received will find its place in the asset account whereas the expense occurred and cash not paid cases will find their places in the liabilities account. FINANCIAL STATEMENT INCOME STATEMENT
The purpose of the income statement
is to find the company’s net income for the year. Accountants take all accounting transactions (including non-cash ones) and do a “revenue – expense” analysis to determine the year’s profit. BALANCE SHEET
is based on the following equation –
Assets = Liabilities + Shareholders’ Equity
It states that a business entity
possesses and owes. SHAREHOLDER’S EQUITY STATEMENT
It is a statement that includes
shareholders’ equity, retained earnings, reserves, and other stock- related items. It is an indicator of the changes in the ownership interest of the stakeholders. CASH FLOW STATEMENT
combines three statements – cash flow
from operating activities, cash flow from financing activities, and the cash flow from investing activities. CASH FLOW STATEMENT
1. Cash flow from operating activities
-is the first of the three parts of the cash flow statement that shows the cash inflows and outflows from core operating the business in an accounting year; Operating Activities include cash received from Sales, cash expenses paid for direct costs as well as payment is done for funding working capital. CASH FLOW STATEMENT
2. Cash flow from financing activities
refers to the inflow and the outflow of cash from the financing activities of the company like change in capital from the issuance of securities like equity shares, preference shares, issuing debt, debentures, and from the redemption of securities or repayment of a long term or short term debt, payment of dividend or interest on securities. CASH FLOW STATEMENT
3. Cash flow from investing activities
refers to cash inflow and outflow of cash from investing in assets (including intangibles), purchasing of assets like property, plant and equipment, shares, debt, and from sale proceeds of assets or disposal of shares/debt or redemption of investments like a collection from loans advanced or debt issued. WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING ? 1. To track and analyze performances and transactions of a business over a period of time.
2. The transparency and reliability of
accounting is crucial in evaluating management policies and creating budgets. 3. It is used to compare reports so that stakeholders and investors can decipher and use the data to make better decisions in the future.
4. It provides clarity in internal and
external communication regarding the sources and destinations of finances in the company. SAMPLE OF INCOME STATEMENT (NESTLE HOLDINGS, INC.) As we can see, the company generated a net profit of $3290 million in 2020, which is more than three times the net profit of 2019. SAMPLE OF BALANCE SHEET (NESTLE HOLDINGS, INC.)
The company assets,
liabilities, and equity for the year 2020 were recorded as follows: SAMPLE OF BALANCE SHEET (NESTLE HOLDINGS, INC.)
The company assets,
liabilities, and equity for the year 2020 were recorded as follows: Therefore, based on the data, we can infer the following:
There was a rise in the company’s current and non-current assets in
2020, which led to total assets being valued at $54394 million. Similarly, the company’s current and non-current liabilities increased. As a result, total liabilities rose to $32783 million. In 2020. the total shareholder’s equity rose from $18594 million in 2019 to $21611 million. SAMPLE OF CASH FLOW STATEMENT (NESTLE HOLDINGS, INC.)
Now let us have a
look at Nestle’s CFS for 2020: This financial statement signifies the following points:
The cash flow generated from operations was comparatively less,
amounting to only $1783 million in 2020. In comparison, $2287 million was generated in 2019. Whereas Nestle’s cash flow from investing increased to $2127 million. This was due to the disposal of businesses. Financing represented a negative cash flow which amounted to $3883 million in 2020. This was majorly a result of the loans given to the parent and affiliates. However, the company had a positive balance of $350 million in 2020. This includes both cash and cash equivalents at the end of 2020. The balance amount was higher than the previous year.