Business Transactions and Their Analysis
Business Transactions and Their Analysis
Business Transactions and Their Analysis
Analysis
Coverage of Discussion:
•Accounting Cycle
•Steps in Accouting Cycle
•Types of Events
•Journalizing
•Drills!
The Accounting Cycle
• Represents the steps or procedures used to
record transactions and prepared financial
statements.
• The accounting cycle implements the accounting
processes of identifying, recording and
communicating economic information.
Steps in the Accounting Cycle
• Identifying and analyzing business documents or
transactions
• Journalizing
• Posting Discussion
• Preparing the Unadjusted Trial Balance
• Preparing the adjusting entries
• Preparing the adjusted trial balance (or worksheet
preparation)
• Preparing the financial statements
• Closing the books
• Preparing the post-closing trial balance
• Recording of reversing entries
Identifying and analyzing transactions and
events
• It involves identifying a business transaction and
analyzing whether or not that transaction affects
the assets, liabilities, equity, income or
expenses of the business.
▫ Accountable events – needs to be recorded in the books
▫ Non-accountable events – not recorded
• Transactions are normally identified from
“source documents”
▫ Written evidence containing information about
transactions.
Illustration for Source Documents
• Sales invoice VS Official receipt
Rendering of
Sales of Goods
Services
Purchase order – used Delivery Receipt –
by the buyer to indicate document signed by the
the types, quantities and receiver of a shipment
agreed prices for products acknowledging the
or services. receipts of goods.
Bank Statement – report issued
Bank Deposit Slip – evidences a
by the bank that shows the deposits
deposit to a bank account.
and withdrawals during the period
and the cumulative balance of the
depositor’s bank account.
Check – an instrumnent
that orders a bank to pay
the person named on the
check or the bearer thereof
for a definite amount of
money from the drawer’s
bank account.
Statement of Account –
is a report a business send
to its customers listing the
transactions with the
customers during the perid.
Types of Events:
• External Events – transactions that involves the
business and another external entity.
• Internal Events – events that do not involve an
external party.
Journalizing
• After an accountable event is identified and analyzed,
the second step is to record it in the journal by means
of a journal entry. This recording process is called
journalizing.
Date Account Title to be debited P xx
Account title to be credited P xx
short desccription of the transaction
• Provide the journal entries to record the transactions and the effect on the accouting equation.