ACC201 Intro to Financial Acccounting Syllabus (InPerson, Online, or Hybrid)
Course Descriptions and Objectives
Course Descriptions:
3 hours lecture per week
Recommended Preparation: ICS 100 or ICS 101; qualification for MATH 24 (or higher); ENG 22 (or higher)
ACC 201 is an introduction to accounting theory and procedure. Students learn how to record, report, and analyze financial information for sole proprietorships and partnerships.
Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:
• Explain the purpose and give examples of the uses of basic financial statements
of a business entity.
• Define assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity, and discuss the relationship
of the accounting equation to the process of recording business transactions.
• Explain the purpose of the journal, ledger, and trial balance and show how
they are used in the recording process to facilitate the compiling and accumulation
of accounting information.
• Record transactions for service and merchandising businesses in special journals
and the general journal.
• Explain the purpose of adjusting and closing entries, proficiently prepare
adjusting and closing entries.
• Explain the basic steps of the accounting cycle.
• Prepare and explain the basic elements of the Income Statement, Statement
of Owner’s Equity, and the Balance Sheet for a service or a merchandising business.
• Explain “Internal Control” as a function of Accounting and indicate the basic
principles involved in establishing controls to safeguard assets and enhance
the accuracy and reliability of accounting records.
• Describe the nature of special journals and subsidiary ledgers, proficiently
execute manual recording procedures, and fully explain how computerization
affects such procedures.
• List the basic procedures necessary for effective accounting and control
of cash transactions; correctly preparing bank reconciliations; and establishing
and maintaining petty cash funds.
• Record and control transactions involving credit sales and purchases, including
the procedures for recording uncollectible accounts.
• Describe promissory notes and account for such notes, including the computation
of interest.
• Calculate, accurately record, and report basic inventory transactions using
the periodic and perpetual methods.
• Accurately determine inventory value using the lower of cost or market, gross
profit, retail, and cost methods including pricing at FIFO, Average and LIFO.
• List the purpose and accounting principles underlying the use of depreciation,
its recording and reporting; and calculate depreciation using straight line,
units of production, and accelerated methods.
• Determine “cost” of plant, property, and equipment; differentiate between
capital and revenue expenditures; and prepare entries to record typical transactions
and events, including disposals.
• List the major components and procedures involved in the maintenance of payroll
records and account for payrolls and payroll taxes.
• Explain generally accepted accounting principles and the various principles
which should be observed to assure “reliability, understandability, and comparability” of financial reports.
• Determine amounts and record transactions affecting partnerships, including
formation, distribution of profits and losses, changes in membership, and liquidation,
and prepare Statements of Partners’ Equities.
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