All About Accounting

All About Accounting (eBook)

Table of contents:

Part 1

1 What Is Accounting Anyway?

2 Basic Accounting Principles

3 Accounting Principles

4 Bookkeeping

5 Careers

6 Profit and Loss

7 Bookkeeping Basics

8 Personal Accounting

9 Making a Profit

10 Assets and Liabilities

Part2

11 Gains and Losses

12 Balance sheet

13 Revenue and receivables

14 Inventory and expenses

15 Depreciation

16 Depreciation reporting

17 Investing and financing

18 Building Cash Reserves

19 Quasar software

20 Managing the Bottom Line

Part3

21 What is the FASB?

22 What are auditors?

23 What is forensic accounting?

24 Who uses forensic accountants?

25 What is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?

26 What happened at Enron?

27 What happened in corporate accounting scandals?

28 Disclosure

29 What is financial window dressing?

30 What is a corporation?

Part4

31 What are partnerships and limited liability companies?

32 What is a sole proprietorship?

33 Budgeting

34 About GAAP

35 Types of Costs

36 Measuring Costs

37 Parts of an Income Statement, part 1

38 Parts of an Income Statement, Part 2

39 Parts of an Income Statement, Part 3

40 How to analyze a financial statement

Part 5

41 What is earnings per share

42 What is price/earnings ratio

43 What's the difference between private and public company reporting

44 What are other ratios used in financial reporting

45 What is acid test ratio and ROA ratio?

46 What are independent auditors?

47 What is accounting fraud?

48 What does an audit do?

49 What does an audit report contain?

50 How is accounting used in business?