Course topics.

Try this with Accounting

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• The fourteen accounting concepts and conventions in action
• Accounting entity, legal entity and business ownership structures
• The accounting equation, duality and general journal / ledger recording
• The four accounting reports and the links between them
• Digital technologies, regulatory frameworks and stakeholder information needs
• Fully classified income statement for service and trading entities
• Classified balance sheet and statement of changes in equity for a sole trader
• Prepaid and accrued expenses and revenues: general journal and report extracts
• Depreciation: straight-line, diminishing-balance and units-of-use
• Perpetual inventory cards (FIFO and specific identification) and stock adjustments
• Inventory control: turnover, lower of cost or net realisable value and security
• Debtors ledger, control account, schedule of debtors and credit control
• Bad debts, allowance for doubtful debts, ageing analysis and debtor turnover
• Cash control and bank reconciliation statements
• Statement of cash flows: calculations and why profit is not cash
• Schedules of collections and cash budgets; budgeted final reports
• Breakeven analysis and cost behaviour
• Ratio analysis: return, liquidity and solvency, and converting turnover to days
• Sources of finance and ownership-structure advice
• Writing authentic accounting advice: letter, report or email with qualitative and quantitative factors