AIS
Transaction Processing
Readied for the next
fiscal period's entries
Closing entries
Temporary accounts are
transferred into retained
earnings
General-purpose
financial statements
Statement of cash flow
reports inflows and outflows
of cash for a specified period
Balance sheet
finacial psition of an
organization
at a specific point
assets, liabilities, and equity
Statement of changes
in schareholders' equity
reports changes in capital stock
and retained earnings accounts
Income Statment
reports revenues, expenses,
gains, and losses
accrual basis for a
specified period of time
Adjusting entries
are done to account for timing
differences in the flow of cash
After journalized and posted,
prepare an adjusted trial balance
Trial balance
organinzes the balances
from the general ledger
to show if the debits and credits
a equal in the ledger
Not always error prof
Journals
Recorded chronological
list of the transactions
post to the ledger to
the right accounts
Analysis
identify the accounts
Identify the effect
on the account
Which financial statement
does each account effect
determine if its a debit
or dredit entry
verify, debits equal
the credits
Coding Systems
Common coding systems
Sequential coding
Block coding
Hierarchical codes
Mnemonic codes
maintain a clear, logical
chart of accounts
Account normaly have both
a name and a number to identify
Informatin
Technology
Can generate reports with
the touch of a button aswell
including financial statement
Transactions can post automatically
or with the touch of a button
Cut down steps in the
accounting cycle
Human judgment
Estimating amounts and
interpreting accounting rules
Recognizing recordable
transactions
Designing source
documents