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Financial Statements

A financial statement is a record of the financial activities of a person or business entity where all related financial information are presented in an orderly manner and can be easily understood.

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Example's of irregular cash flow?

Lets say if your fryer breaks down or you get a flat tyre, that is irregular cash flow because it is not an expected cost!

Is accurals include in balance sheet?

Yes accrual are part of balance sheet as accruals deals with future activities and all future actives are dealt by balance sheet.

What is net equity?

net new equity is given by the formula; new equity-old equity- addition to retained earnings

Carriage outward detail in acccounts?

Carriage outward refers to the cost incurred by a business when transporting goods from its premises to customers or other destinations. It is recorded as an expense in the accounts, typically under shipping or delivery expenses. This detail provides a breakdown of the transportation costs associated with delivering products to customers or transferring goods to other locations.

Why do you say that financial statement analysis is management by exception?

why is financial statement analysis part of business analysis? Please answer this question, I'll need it this answer!

What is accounting?

Accounting is the present participle of account, or the development and use of a system for recording and analyzing finances.

Is it ok to have two or more financial accounts at the same financial institution or should you diversify your financial accounts between multiple financial companies?

AnswerThe term "financial institution " means depository institutions such as insurance company, safe deposit company, money-market mutual fund, or similar entity authorized to do business. So, diverse financial institution accounts are recommended as it is safe and according to the rules.

What value do financial ratios offer investors in reviewing the financial performance of a firm?

Investors look at financial ratios to understand how businesses are performing. They use this information to determine whether they would like to invest or not.

How do you calculate sale revenue?

To calculate the sales revenue, the sales returns and the allowances must be subtracted from the old value. Sales revenue has a normal credit balance, meaning that a credit to a revenue account illustrates an increase in sales.

Will unearned revenue be shown both in liabilities and income statement of the year in which we received the income?

Unearned revenue is only shown in the liability side of balance sheet and it is only shown in income statement when it is actually earned until then it will only shown in balance sheet as liability

Does a transaction always change both sides of a balance sheet How do yo know?

Any transaction that gets reflected on the Balance Sheet will impact both sides of a balance sheet. Balance sheet represents what the company (an entity) owns and owes (to shareholders and debtors).

If a transaction results in increase in assets (what it owns), the funding for it will come from investor and equal amount reflect on fund raised. You should not get confused with situation where both the impacts are on the same side which does not results in change of 'size' of balance sheet. For example you sell an asset for and receive cash. Then asset will go down and cash asset will increase. Both the changes are on the asset side. Another example on liabilities side would be raising equity to payback debt.

Thus moral of the story is that size of the balance sheet is same on both the sides. So a transaction either changes two sub-accounts on assets side/ liabilities side resulting in no change in the balance sheet size or it will affect both the sides equally resulting in balance sheet remaining 'balanced'

Is there a space between journal entries?

a properly formatted journal entry should have a space (can be one) between the end of one day and the beginning of the other. Beyond that it is up to you how you space your running entry.

What is the difference between a consolidated and non-consolidated balance sheet?

It is very simple:

consolidated financial data: One a parent company posts/files its combined financials that is parent's data as well as subsidiaries data collectively (Summed) that is Consolidated Financials.

Non/Un-Consolidated Financials: When Parent company posts/files its financials separately that is stand alone financials of parent and side by side its subsidiaries data.

When preparing the retained earnings statement the beginning retained earnings balance can always be found?

If preparing for first year of business then there will be no retained earnings balance available otherwise it can be found always if in previous years not paid full income to share holders.

Is it good if a company's annual sales go up while the gross profit margin goes down and the net profit figures go down also what does this mean for the company?

If company sales are increasing but gross profit as well as net profit is declining, it means that sales are not increasing as rapidly as company costs and expenses are increasing.

A thorough review should be conducted to analysis the situation and selling price should be adjusted according to increase in cost prices.

Is cash flow 101 a beneficial tool to teach with?

Cashflow 101 is an educational tool in board game format designed by Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad), which aims to teach the players concepts of investing by having their money work for them in a risk free setting (play money) while simultaneously increasing their financial literacy and stressing the imperative nature of accountability.