FINANCIAL REPORTING AND CONTROL (ACCOUNTS)
Course Syllabus
- Introduction to accounting
- The conceptual framework
- Ethics in business and
accounting
- Review of the financial
statements
- Analyzing Transactions
- Double entry accounting
system
- Analyse and record
transactions in a journal
- Post the journal to ledger
accounts
- Prepare a trial balance
- Accrual Accounting,
Adjusting Entries, and Financial Statements
- Accrual system of
accounting versus cash basis
- The adjustment process
- Preparing financial
statements
- Internal Control
- Fraud and the Sarbanes
Oxley Act
Internal control objectives and procedures
- Bank reconciliation
- Control over cash
- Short-term Investments and
Receivables
- Short-term investments
- Accounts and notes
receivable
- Accounting for bad debts
- Current and quick ratios,
receivables ratios
Inventory
- Inventory costing methods;
FIFO, weighted average, LIFO
- Cost of goods sold and
lower of market and net realizable value
- Effect of inventory errors
- Long-term Assets
- Measuring the cost of
property, plant, and equipment
- Depreciation methods
including partial year depreciation and significant components
- Derecognition of assets
- IFRS revaluation model
- Accounting for intangibles
- Leases: operating and
financing
- Financial statement
presentation and disclosures for assets
- Liabilities
- Current liabilities and
contingencies
- Long-term liabilities
- Bonds payable
- Bond discounts and
premiums using the effective interest method
- Accrual of bond interest
- Operating leases
- Financing leases
- Shareholder’s Equity
- Forms of business
organization and advantages and disadvantages
- Shares and shareholder
rights including common and preferred
- Issuing shares
- Share repurchase
- Dividends; common and
preferred
- Cash dividends, stock
dividends
- Stock splits
- Concepts of book value,
fair value, earnings per share
- Statement of Cash Flows
- Statement of cash flows -
basic concepts
- Preparing the statement of
cash flows – indirect method
- Preparing the statement of
cash flows – direct method
- Free cash flow
- Financial Statement
Analysis
- Vertical and horizontal
analysis
- Revised May Page
- Financial statement ratios
and benchmarking
- Using ratios in decision
making