 WHAT IS GAAP OR GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES

After completing this chapter you should be able to: Explain the purpose and importance of accounting; identify users and uses of, and opportunities in, accounting; explain why ethics are crucial to accounting; explain generally accepted accounting principles and define and apply several accounting[r]

In this chapter, the learning objectives are: Identify the principles and components of accounting information systems, explain the goals and uses of special journals, describe the use of controlling accounts and subsidiary ledgers.

After completing this chapter you should be able to: Identify characteristics of corporations and their organization; explain characteristics of, and distribute dividends between, common and preferred stock; explain the items reported in retained earnings; compute earnings per share and describe its[r]

After completing this chapter you should be able to: Describe accounts receivable and how they occur and are recorded; describe a note receivable, the computation of its maturity date, and the recording of its existence; explain how receivables can be converted to cash before maturity.

Chapter 2 - Introducing supply and demand. After reading this chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions: What is demand? What is law of demand? What factors change demand? What is supply? What is law of supply? What factors change supply?

In this chapter, the learning objectives are: Discuss fraud and the principles of internal control, identify the basic concepts of an accounting information system, describe the nature and purpose of a subsidiary ledger, explain how companies use special journals in journalizing.

Chapter 5 - Policy analysis with supply and demand. After reading this chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions: What is a price floor? What is the effect of minimum wage on the market? What is a price ceiling? What is rent control? What is economics of a draft vs. voluntary enl[r]

In this chapter, the learning objectives are: Explain how to account for debt investments, explain how to account for stock investments, discuss how debt and stock investments are reported in financial statements.

After completing this chapter you should be able to: Identify the principles and components of accounting information systems, explain the goals and uses of special journals, describe the use of controlling accounts and subsidiary ledgers.

After studying this chapter, you should be able to: Explain how accounting makes it possible to use scarce resources more efficiently, explain the meaning of “stakeholder” and identify key stakeholders in financial reporting, explaining what is at stake for each one, identify the objective of financ[r]

[Mechanical Translation and Computational Linguistics, vol.11, nos.1 and 2, March and June 1968] Is the Generally Accepted Strategy of Machine-Translation Research Optimal?* by A. Ljudskanov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia This paper first presents a theoretical interpret[r]

In this chapter, the learning objectives are: Identify the features of managerial accounting and the functions of management, describe the classes of manufacturing costs and the differences between product and period costs, demonstrate how to compute cost of goods manufactured and prepare financial[r]

An oral presentation is generally a speech or vocal performance, occasionally accompanied by visually based presentations such as a slideshow.  An oral presentation is where you show your knowledge on a particular subject. You might be able to choose your topic, or maybe you have been given somethi[r]

In this chapter, the learning objectives are: Prepare a worksheet, explain the process of closing the books, describe the content and purpose of a post-closing trial balance, state the required steps in the accounting cycle.

In this chapter, the learning objectives are: Explain what an account is and how it helps in the recording process; define debits and credits and explain their use in recording business transactions, identify the basic steps in the recording process.

Lecture Principles of Microeconomics - Chapter 4: Elasticities. After reading this chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions: What is price elasticity of demand? What are categories of demand elasticity and what factors influence them? What is the relationship between demand elas[r]

MicroRNA (miR)-182 is frequently upregulated in cancers, has generally been viewed as an oncogene and is possibly connected to angiogenesis. We aimed to explore what impact miR-182 has in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and more explicitly its correlation with angiogenic markers.

Lecture Principles of Microeconomics - Chapter 7: Trade. After reading this chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions: How does trade affect society? How does trade create wealth? What is absolute advantage? What is comparative advantage? What are the effects of exports and impor[r]

Lecture Principles of Microeconomics - Chapter 8: Costs. After reading this chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions: What are different types of costs? What is diminishing marginal returns? Why do marginal costs increase? Why is the average total costs curve U-shaped? What is t[r]

One well-accepted strategy for optimising outcomes in mammographic breast cancer screening is to improve communication with women about screening. It is not always clear, however, what it is that communication should be expected to achieve, and why or how this is so. We investigated Australian exper[r]