Accounting: Information for Business Decisions Accounting: Information for Business Decisions

✍ Scribed by Billie Cunningham, Loren A. Nikolai, John Bazley, Marie Kavanagh, Sharelle Simmons, Christina James-Overheu

• Publisher: CENGAGE AUSTRALIA
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 554
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Accounting Information for Business Decisions shows you how theory applies to contemporary real-world scenarios. The text leads you through the business cycle and how accounting information informs decision-making. You will learn how to base decisions on two kinds of accounting information ' managerial and financial. Follow a retail coffee business in the Cafe Revive case study to learn about applying accounting issues in the real world.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half title page
Title page
Imprint page
Brief contents
Contents
Guide to the text
Guide to the online resources
Preface
About the authors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction to business accounting and the role of professional skills
1.1 Factors affecting the complexity of a changing business environment
1.2 Business enterprise categories
1.3 Business structures
1.4 The accounting system
1.5 Ethics in business and accounting
1.6 The accountant in a changing society
Study tools
Chapter 2: Developing a business plan: Cost–volume–profit analysis
2.1 Planning in a new business
2.2 Cost–volume–profit (CVP) planning
2.3 Using CVP analysis
2.4 Other planning issues and effects
Study tools
Appendix: CVP analysis for cups of coffee
Chapter 3:
Developing a business plan: Applied budgeting
3.1 Why budget?
3.2 Operating cycles
3.3 The budget as a framework for planning
3.4 Using the master budget in evaluating the business’s performance
Study tools
Chapter 4: The accounting system: Concepts and applications
4.1 Financial accounting information and decision making
4.2 Basic concepts and terms used in accounting
4.3 Components of the accounting equation
4.4 Accounting for transactions to start a business
4.5 Expanding the accounting equation
4.6 Recording daily operations
4.7 End-of-period adjustments
Study tools
Chapter 5: Recording, storing and reporting accounting information
5.1 Accounts
5.2 Accounting cycle
5.3 Recording (journalising) transactions
5.4 Posting from journals to the accounts
5.5 Trial balance
5.6 Preparing adjusting entries
5.7 Adjusted trial balance
5.8 Preparing the financial statements
5.9 Preparation of closing entries
5.10 Modifications for companies
5.11 Other journal entries
Study tools
Chapter 6: Internal control: Managing and reporting working capital
6.1 Working capital
6.2 Cash
6.3 Accounts receivable
6.4 Inventory
6.5 Accounts payable
Study tools
Chapter 7: The income statement: Components and applications
7.1 Why the income statement is important
7.2 Measuring financial performance: The income statement
7.3 Defining and classifying revenues/income
7.4 Defining and classifying expenses
7.5 Evaluating the income statement using ratios
7.6 Linking profit to owner’s equity and closing the accounts
Study tools
Appendix: Calculating the cost and the amount of inventory
Chapter 8: The balance sheet: Components and applications
8.1 Why the balance sheet is important
8.2 The accounting equation and the balance sheet
8.3 Using the balance sheet figures for evaluation
8.4 Evaluating financial flexibility
8.5 Limitations of the income statement and the balance sheet
8.6 Business activity statements (BAS)
Study tools
Chapter 9: The cash flow statement: Components and applications
9.1 Understand the importance of the cash flow statements to
organisations and users
9.2 Identify the types of transactions that generate cash inflows and outflows
9.3 The organisation of the cash flow statement
9.4 Construct cash flow statements based on the direct method
9.5 Analysis of the cash flow statement
9.6 Calculate the relevant cash flow ratios
Study tools
Appendix: Indirect method for reporting cash flows from operating activities
Chapter 10: Sustainable and profitable business practices
10.1 Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
10.2 The triple bottom line
10.3 Triple-bottom-line accounting: Practical measures
10.4 Environmental project appraisal
10.5 Social accounting
10.6 Sustainability as a business strategy
Study tools
Chapter 11: Short-term planning decisions
11.1 Relevant costs and revenues
11.2 Other cost (and revenue) concepts for short-term decisions
11.3 Calculating short-term decisions
11.4 Non-financial issues in decision making
Study tools
Chapter 1
2: Capital expenditure decisions
12.1 Capital expenditure decisions
12.2 Making a capital expenditure decision
12.3 Net present value (NPV) method
12.4 Alternative methods for evaluating capital expenditure proposals
12.5 Selecting alternative proposals for investment
Study tools
Glossary
Index