Financial Accounting Lectures (Tutorials)

  • Introduction to Accounting

    Accounting, accounting information and double-entry bookkeeping; financial and managerial accounting; basic financial statements (income statement, statement of cash flows, statement of changes in owners' equity and balance sheet); permanent (real) and temporary (nominal) accounts; four types of accounting transactions.
  • Accounting for Accruals

    Accruals and accrual accounting; accounts receivable and salary payable; interest receivable, interest revenue, interest payable, and interest expense.
  • Accounting for Deferrals

    Deferrals and accounting allocation; unearned revenue and revenue recognition; historical cost, book (carrying) value of fixed asset, depreciation expense; prepayments (prepaid expenses).
  • Double-entry Accounting System

    T-account, debit, credit, and account balance; double entry bookkeeping system; general journals, ledgers, posting process; closing entries.
  • Accounting in Merchandising Companies

    Cost of goods available for sale, cost of goods sold (COGS), gross margin, inventory; selling and administrative expenses; multi-step income statement and single-step income statement.
  • Accounting for Advanced Accruals

    Accounts receivable, notes receivable, and notes payable; allowance for bad debt, bad debt expense, and net realizable value; direct write off method; warranties; interest-bearing notes, discount notes, discount amortization, and discount on notes payable.
  • Accounting for Inventories

    Lower of cost or market (LCM) rule; inventory cost flow methods (specific identification, first in first out (FIFO), last in first out (LIFO), weighted average); cost flow and physical flow of inventory.
  • Accounting for Long-term Assets

    Property, plan and equipment and depreciation; intangible assets and amortization; natural resources and depletion; historical cost.

Managerial Accounting Lectures (Tutorials)

  • Accounting Cost Behavior

    Cost drivers; variable, fixed, step variable and mixed costs; relevant range; methods to estimate total product costs: the high-low method, a scatter-graph, and least-squares regression.
  • Accounting Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis

    Cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis; equation technique and contribution margin technique; break-even point and sales for desired income; multiple product companies; graphical interpretation of CVP analysis; margin of safety and limitations of CVP analysis.
  • Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Costs

    Manufacturing (direct materials, direct labor, factory overhead) and non-manufacturing costs; product and period costs; raw materials, work-in-process and finished goods; cost of goods manufactured and cost of goods sold; cost accounting cycle.
  • Activity-Based Costing (ABC)

    Activity-based costing (ABC), volume-based traditional costing; job costing, process costing; actual costing, normal costing, standard costing; steps of ABC; advantages and disadvantages of ABC.

Advanced Accounting Lectures & Articles

  • Bank Account Reconciliation

    Account reconciliation process and two types of reconciliations; bank reconciliations in detail; an example of a bank reconciliation with step by step instructions.
  • General Ledger to Sub-ledger Reconciliation Subscription Content

    Process for the general ledger to sub-ledger reconciliation; an example of this reconciliation type with step by step instructions.
  • Physical Inventory Procedures

    Physical inventory and its purposes; three phases: planning and preparation, execution, and analysis of results; methods of conducting a physical inventory such as bar-code readers, count cards, and count sheets.
  • Activity-Based Management (ABM) Subscription Content

    Activity-based management (ABM); operational ABM, strategic ABM; customer profitability analysis, customer cost analysis, customer life-time value (CLV).

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