Introductory Financial Accounting Lecture Week 5 Receivables Summer Semester 2014 Greg Cusack www.fbe.unimelb.edu.au Learning Objectives At the end of the lecture‚ students should Be able to apply the revenue recognition principle to determine the accepted time to record sales revenue for typical retailers‚ wholesalers‚ manufacturers and service companies. To understand the recording and management implications of credit sales‚ including the offering of sales discounts and the
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specifically defined as a pleasurable (or unpleasurable) emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job‚ an affective reaction to one’s job‚ and an attitude towards one’s job. These definitions suggest that job satisfaction takes into account feelings‚ beliefs‚ and behaviors. History One of the biggest preludes to the study of job satisfaction was the Hawthorne studies. These studies (1924–1933)‚ primarily credited to Elton Mayo of the Harvard Business School‚
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Receivables Turnover Ratio interpretation Receivables Turnover Ratio is one of the efficiency ratios and measures the number of times receivables are collected‚ on average‚ during the fiscal year. Receivables Turnover Ratio formula is: Receivables Turnover Ratio formula Receivables turnover ratio measures company’s efficiency in collecting its sales on credit and collection policies. This ratio takes in consideration ONLY the credit sales. If the cash sales are included‚ the ratio will be
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and even the Irish Sailors had discovered and landed in Iceland even much earlier‚ but the proofs for the same are not available. The sole information source regarding the settlement of Iceland is the book of settlements Landnamabok‚ which was scripted in the 12th century. The book covers a comprehensive and a detailed account of the initial Iceland dwellers. As per the details covered in the book so far‚ the first setteler in the Iceland was Ingolfur Arnarson. He shifted with his family at Reykjavik
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to customers. A firm grants trade credit to protect its sales from the competitors and to attract the potential customers to buy its products at favourable terms. Trade credit creates accounts receivable or trade debtors that the firm is expected to collect in the near future. The customers from whom receivable or book debt have to be collected in the future are called trade debtors or simply as debtors and represent the firms claim or asset. A credit sale has three characteristics: First‚ it
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Case Chapter 7 Cash and Receivables 1. Petty Cash (10 min.) The petty cash fund of $200 for Walsh Company appeared as follows on December 31‚ 2008: Cash $93.60 Petty cash vouchers Freight in $21.40 Postage 40.00 Balloons for a special occasion 18.00 Meals 25.00 Instructions 1. Prepare the journal entries required to establish the petty cash fund. 2. Prepare in general journal form the entry to replenish the fund. 3. On December 31‚ the office manager gives instructions
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it will be recorded in the purchase journal‚ once it has been certified as a valid invoice. After the journal entries‚ the next step is to post the journal entries into account. Ledger Account also known as “T” Account and Account. Ledger accounts categorize these changes or debits and credits into specific accounts‚ so management can have useful information for budgeting and
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profit and unappropriated profit. what is the accumulated profit and why do accountants and bookkeepers use different names for the same thing? (6 marks) Accumulated profits is profits that are not paid as dividend but is transfered over to the accounts for the next year. Also can be used to reinvest in the core of the business to help pay off debts or to purchase a capital asset. The reasons why accountants and bookkeepers use different names for the same thing is because bookkeepers are the people
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1 Fourth History Test: How far did the Vienna Settlement contribute to maintaining the peace in Europe in the period 1815-1914? The Vienna Settlement refers to a series of agreements made by the European powers at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. As the peace terms with France had already been decided by the Treaty of Paris (signed earlier on May 30‚ 1814)‚ the Congress of Vienna was mainly concerned with solving the problems brought about by the Napoleonic wars. To solve these problems‚ the four
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Types of settlements We will be looking at the three major types of settlement patterns in Jamaica. These are: 1. Urban settlements 2. Suburban settlements 3. Rural settlements What is settlement? Settlement refers to an area where people become fixed for residential purposes. Urban Settlements An urban area is characterized by high population density and vast human features in comparison to surrounding areas. Urban areas are created and further developed through the process
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