TAILIEUCHUNG - Intermediate Accounting - Chap003

The purpose of the balance sheet is to report a company’s financial position on a particular date. It is a freeze frame or snapshot of financial position at the end of a particular day marking the end of an accounting period. | The Balance Sheet and Financial Disclosures 3 Chapter 3: The Balance Sheet and Financial Disclosures Learning Objectives Describe the purpose of the balance sheet and understand its usefulness and limitations. LO1 Our first learning objective in Chapter 3 is to describe the purpose of the balance sheet and understand its usefulness and limitations. The Balance Sheet Limitations: The balance sheet does not portray the market value of the entity as a going concern nor its liquidation value. Resources such as employee skills and reputation are not recorded in the balance sheet. Usefulness: The balance sheet describes many of the resources a company has available for generating future cash flows. It provides liquidity information useful in assessing a company’s ability to pay its current obligations. It provides long-term solvency information relating to the riskiness of a company with regard to the amount of liabilities in its capital structure. The purpose of the balance sheet is to .

• Kế toán - Kiểm toán
• Intermediate Accounting
• Balance Sheet
• Income Statement
• Cash Flows
• Economic Environment
• Financial Reporting
• Accrual Accounting
• Lecture Intermediate accounting
• Financial Accounting
• Accounting process
• Accounting equation
• Accounting processing cycle
• Stock issuance
• Estimating reserves
• Liquidating dividends
• Accounting changes
• Error corrections
• Accounting choices
• Theoretical structure
• Financial accounting environment
• Accounting for leases
• Leasing environment
• Accounting by lessee
• Special accounting problems
• Cash versus accrual accounting
• International standard setting
• Accounting standards
• Accounting assists
• The challenges facing accounting
• Income taxes
• Accounting for income taxes
• Deferred tax liabilities
• Error analysis
• Accounting policy
• Accounting estimate
• Accounting policies
• Accounting information system
• Measurement issues
• Characteristics of accounting
• Capital allocation process