1. Starting a Proprietorship: Changes That Affect the Accounting Equation
Chapter 1

2. Lesson 1-1 The Accounting Equation
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LESSON 1-1
The Accounting Equation

3. Objectives
Define accounting terms related to starting a service business organized as a proprietorship and to changes that affect the accounting equation.
Identify accounting concepts and practices related to starting a service business organized as a proprietorship and to changes that affect the accounting equation.

4. Objectives continued
Classify accounts to assets, liabilities, or owner’s equity and demonstrate their relationships in the accounting equation.
Analyze how transactions affect accounts in an accounting equation.

5. TERMS REVIEW accounting accounting system accounting records
financial statements
service business
proprietorship
asset
equities
liability
owner’s equity
accounting equation
ethics
business ethics
transaction
account
account title
account balance
capital
revenue
sale on account
expense
withdrawals

6. Accounting in the Real World
Read Gold’s Gym on page 5
Critical Thinking
Why is the location of a business important to the success of that business?
What things would you consider when deciding where to locate a business such as Gold’s Gym?

7. What is Accounting?
Accounting is planning, recording, analyzing, and interpreting financial information
Accounting system is a planned process for providing financial information that will be useful to management
Financial statements are financial reports that summarize the financial condition and operations of a business

8. The Business
Service business is a business that performs an activity for a fee
Proprietorship is a business owned by one person
Read Business Structures on page 7
Why do you think more businesses are organized as proprietorships than any other form of business?
What kinds of people do you think would be most successful as owners of a proprietorship?

9. The Accounting Equation
Asset is anything that is owned of value
Liability is an amount owed by a business
Owner’s equity is the amount remaining after the value of all liabilities is subtracted from the value of assets

10. Audit Your Understanding?
What is accounting?
Give two examples of service businesses.
What is a proprietorship?
State the accounting equation.

11. LESSON 1-2 How Business Activities Change the Accounting Equation
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LESSON 1-2
How Business Activities Change the Accounting Equation

12. How Business Activities Change the Accounting Equation
Transaction is a business activity that changes assets, liabilities, or owner’s equity
Account is a record summarizing all the information pertaining to a single item in the accounting equation
Account title is the name given to the account
Account balance is the amount in the account
Capital is the account used to summarize the owner’s equity in a business

13. RECEIVING CASH
Transaction 1 August 1. Received cash from owner as an investment, $5,

14. PAYING CASH Transaction 2 August 3. Paid cash for supplies, $275.00.
Transaction 3 August 4. Paid cash for insurance, $1,

15. TRANSACTIONS ON ACCOUNT
Transaction 4 August 7. Bought supplies on account from Supply Depot, $
Transaction 5 August 11. Paid cash on account to Supply Depot, $

16. Audit Your Understanding
What must be done if a transaction increases the left side of the accounting equation?
How can a transaction affect only one side of the accounting equation?
To what does the phrase on account refer?

17. Lesson 1-3
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LESSON 1-3
How Transactions Change Owner’s Equity in an Accounting Equation

18. Revenue Transactions
Revenue is an increase in owner’s equity resulting from the operation of the business
Sale on account (charge sale) is a sale for which cash will be received at a later date

19. REVENUE TRANSACTIONS
Transaction 6 August 12. Received cash from sales, $
Transaction 7 August 12. Sold services on account to Oakdale School, $

20. Expense/Other Transactions
Expense is a decrease in owner’s equity resulting from the operation of the business
Withdrawal is when assets are taken out of a business for the owner’s personal use

21. EXPENSE TRANSACTIONS
Transaction 8 August 12. Paid cash for rent, $
Transaction 9 August 12. Paid cash for telephone bill, $40.00.

22. OTHER CASH TRANSACTIONS
Transaction 10 August 12. Received cash on account from Oakdale School, $
Transaction 11 August 12. Paid cash to owner for personal use, $

23. Audit Your Understanding
How is owner’s equity affected when cash is received from sales?
How is owner’s affected when services are sold on account?
How is owner’s equity affected when cash is paid for expenses?