AFM123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Legal Personality, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, Chartered Professional Accountant

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1st - understand business reality (accounting is logical) business - sales / accounting / marketing (advertising, promotions) / hr / operations. Accounting and finance department both report to cfo. If you want to get money from somebody then you need to borrow it. What do you do with a bank? they give you a loan. They don"t give it to everyone who asks - they got to check your credit first. If you"re a business that"s losing money, you mostly likely won"t get the loan. ^ balance sheet: expenses - what they"re spending their money on, net income - what you make after paying the expenses, revenues - sales. Other financial statements: statement of shareholders" equity, statement of cash flows. Elements of financial statements: asset: properties/economic resource that"s owned by a company and provides future economic benefits (generally greater than 1 year - then over the years we begin to treat it as an expense)

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