Wednesday 20 May 2015

Accounting Equation in Accounting.

The accounting equation, also called the basic accounting equation, forms the foundation for all accounting systems. In fact, the entire double entry accounting concept is based on the basic accounting equation. This simple equation illustrates two facts about a company: what it owns and what it owes.


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Accounting Equation

Basic of Financial Accounting.

Accounting in general deals with identifying business activities, like sales to customers, recording these activities, like journalizing, and communicating these activities with people outside the organization with financial statements.




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Financial Accounting

Sunday 11 January 2015

What is Segment reporting ?

All businesses are not created equally. Apple and Google have massive operations in multiple geographic regions across the world, while a small manufacturing company might only own a single factory in Michigan. Should these three companies produce the exact same financial statements? In this article, we’ll look at how diversified companies are required to report operating segment results.

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Segment reporting 

Equity investment accounting methods

Owning a share of stock in a company might earn you a few dollars, but you don’t get to do a whole lot of decision-making as such a small investor. Corporations, on the other hand, invest in equity securities on a much larger scale. In this article, we’ll look at three different methods of accounting for stock investments.

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Equity investment accounting methods 

Saturday 10 January 2015

Accounting for business-owned life insurance policies

What would happen to a corporation if the long-term CEO were to die? Some businesses carry life insurance policies for just such an event because of potential operation disruptions. In this article we’ll discuss briefly the journal entries for business-owned life insurance (BOLI) policies.

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Accounting for business-owned life insurance policies