Exams Flashcards
What are the 3 management activities and what accounting support is provided
Planning - budgets
OPerating - cost analysis
Evaluation - cost reports
Parts of a business plan (5 parts)
- Description of business plan
- Marketing plan
- Operating plan
- Environmental/sustainability plan
- Financial plan
Sources of capital (3)
- Grants
- Short term capital
- Long term capital
Contribution margin
total sales rev - total variable costs
Contribution margin per unit
rev per unit - variable cost per unit
Profit (cont. marg.)
contribution margin - FC
Conbtibution margin %
COntribution margin/total sales revenue
What is included in the master budget (7)
Sales budget
Purchases budfet
Selling expenses budget (operating expenses budget for service business)
General admin/expenses budget
Cash budget + projected cash flow statement
Projected income statement
Projected balance sheet
Cash budget (3 sections)
Cash flow from operating activities
Cash flow from investing activities
Cash flow from financing activities
Historical cost concept
Business records its transactions based on dollars exchanged at the time REGARDLESS off whether the value has changed
Entity concept
When business and owners are kept separate eg. in accounting system/records
Process to prepare financial information (4 steps)
- Identofy and measure the transactions
- Record the transactions
- REport the transactions
- Analayse and interpret the transactions
Expanded accounting equation
Assets = liabilities + owners capial + net income (Rev-exp)
Going concern
Assumption that an entity is able to continue as a viable entity for the fprseeable future
accrual accounting
Recordining revenue and expenses in the same accounting period that G/S are provided, regardless of when cash is rewceived/paid