1. What is accounting? The Language of Business!
Chapter 1
What is accounting?
The Language of Business!

2. THE ACCOUNTING PROFESSION
Public Accountants
Service to the general public through the services they perform.
Private Accountants
Individuals in companies involved in activities including cost and tax accounting, systems, and internal auditing.
Not For Profit Accountants
Reporting and control for government units, foundations, hospitals, labor unions, colleges/universities, and charities.

3. What about other professions than accounting?
What are some other professions that use accounting information?
Work together to create a list, be ready to back up the professions you list.

4. The Building Blocks of Accounting
Ethics In Financial Reporting
Standards of conduct by which one’s actions are judged as right or wrong, honest or dishonest, fair or not fair, are Ethics.
Recent financial scandals include: Enron, WorldCom, HealthSouth, AIG, and others.
Congress passed Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Effective financial reporting depends on sound ethical behavior.

5. Ethics Review Question
Ethics are the standards of conduct by which one's actions are judged as:
right or wrong.
honest or dishonest.
fair or not fair.
all of these options.

6. What is the difference between a service business and a manufacturing business?
Service business: performs an activity for a fee Manufacturing business: produces a product for a fee

7. Service or Manufacturing?
The Gap
Glendale Medical Center
Handy Man
Ford Motor Company
The Chase Manhattan Bank
Michigan City Animal Hospital
Prudential Insurance Company of America
Bethlehem Steel Corporation

8. Forms of Business Ownership
Proprietorship
Partnership
Corporation
Generally owned by one person.
Often small service-type businesses
Owner receives any profits, suffers any losses, and is personally liable for all debts.
Owned by two or more persons.
Often retail and service-type businesses
Generally unlimited personal liability
Partnership agreement
Ownership divided into shares of stock
Separate legal entity organized under state corporation law
Limited liability
Service Cost - Actuaries compute service cost as the present value of the new benefits earned by employees during the year. Future salary levels considered in calculation.
Interest on Liability - Interest accrues each year on the PBO just as it does on any discounted debt.
Actual Return on Plan Assets - Increase in pension funds from interest, dividends, and realized and unrealized changes in the fair market value of the plan assets.
Amortization of Unrecognized Prior Service Cost - The cost of providing retroactive benefits is allocated to pension expense in the future, specifically to the remaining service-years of the affected employees.
Gain or Loss - Volatility in pension expense can be caused by sudden and large changes in the market value of plan assets and by changes in the projected benefit obligation. Two items comprise the gain or loss:
difference between the actual return and the expected return on plan assets and,
amortization of the unrecognized net gain or loss from previous periods

9. What is your favorite part of unloading the dishwasher?

10. The Basic Accounting Equation
Assets
Liabilities
Owners’ Equity = +
Assets
Anything of value
Resources a business owns.
Provide future services or benefits.
Cash, Supplies, Equipment, etc.

11. The Basic Accounting Equation
Assets
Liabilities
Owners’ Equity = +
Liabilities
Amount owed by a business
Claims against assets (debts and obligations).
Creditors - party to whom money is owed.
Accounts payable, Notes payable, etc.

12. The Basic Accounting Equation
Assets
Liabilities
Owners’ Equity = +
Owners’ Equity
The amount remaining after the value of all liabilities is subtracted from the value of assets
Ownership claim on total assets.
Referred to as residual equity.
Capital, Drawings, etc. (Proprietorship or Partnership).

13. Assets
Liabilities
Owners’ Equity = +
MUST ALWAYS BALANCE!!!!

14. Create a list of accounts for yourself
Assets
Car
House
Clothing
Shoes
DVD Collection
Furniture

15. Liabilities
Student Loans
Mortgage
Car loan

16. Owners Equity
Assets – Liabilities…..