Financial Accounting 11th Edition
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by Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel Chapters
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1 - 13 | Complete
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Chapter 1. Accounting in Action Chapt
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er 2. The Recording Process Chapter 3. A
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djusting the Accounts xq xq
Chapter 4. Completing the Accounting Cycle
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Chapter 5. Accounting for Merchandising Operations Ch
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apter 6. Inventories
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Chapter 7. Fraud, Internal Control and Cash Cha
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pter 8. Accounting for Receivables
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Chapter 9. PlantAssets, Natural Resources and Intangible Assets C
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hapter 10. Liabilities
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Chapter 11. Corporations: Organisations, Stock Transactions and Stockholders’ Eq u
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Chapter 12. Statement of Cash Flows
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Chapter 13. Financial Analysis: The Big Picture
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Accounting in Action xq xq
ASSIGNMENT CLASSIFICATION TABLE xq xq
Brief Exerci
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Learning Objectives
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1. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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Identify the activities an xq xq xq
d users associated with a
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co unting: ethics, principles,an
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3. 11, 12, 13, 14.
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State the accounting e
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Analyze the effects of busine
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s s transactions on theaccoun
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tin g equation.
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5. 17, 19, 20, 21,
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ements and how they areprep
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1. True. Virtually every organization and person in our society uses accounting information. Businesses, i
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nve stors, creditors, government agencies, and not-for-
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profit organizations must use accounting information to operate effectively.
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2. Accounting is the process of identifying, recording, and communicating the economic events of an o
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rgan ization to interested users of the information. The first activity of the accounting process is to id
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entify eco nomic events that are relevant to a particular business. Once identified and measured, the
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qevents are rec orded to provide a history of the financial activities of the organization. Recording co
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nsists of keeping a c hronological diary of these measured events in anorderly and systematic manne
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r. The information is com municated through the preparation and distribution of accounting reports,
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the most common of whic h are called financial statements.A vital element in the communicat
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ion process is the accountant’s ability and responsibility to analyze and interpret the reported inform
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ation.
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3. (a) Internal users are those who plan, organize, and run the business and therefore are officers and o
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(b) To assist management, accounting provides internal reports. Examples include financial compari
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son s of operating alternatives, projections of income from new sales campaigns,and forecasts
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of cash needs for the next year.
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4. (a) Investors (owners) use accounting information to make decisions to buy, hold, or sell stock.
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(b) Creditors2use accounting information to evaluate the risks of granting credit or lending money.
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5. False. Bookkeeping usually involves only the recording of economic events and therefore is just one p
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art of the entire accounting process. Accounting, on the other hand, involves the entire process of ide
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ntifying
, recording, and communicating economic events.
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6. Harper Travel Agency should report the land at $85,000 on its December 31, 2022 balance sheet. T
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his is true not only at the time the land is purchased, but also over the time the land is held. In dete
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rmining whi ch measurement principle to use (historical cost or fair value) companies weigh the factu
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al nature of cost figures versus the relevance of fair value. In general, companies use historical cost.
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Only in situations whe re assets are actively traded do companies apply the fair value principle.
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7. The monetary unit assumption requires that only transaction data capable of being expressed in ter
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ms of money be included in the accounting records. This assumption enables accounting to quantify
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