AC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Retained Earnings, Income Statement, Accrual

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Operating activities are the day-to-day functions involved in running a business include buying goods and services from suppliers and employees and selling goods and services to customers and collecting cash from them. Operating activities are the primary source of revenues and expenses. Can determine whether a company earns a profit (or incurs a loss) Summarizes the financial impact of operating activities undertaken by the company during the accounting period. Revenues: increases in assets or settlements of liabilities arising from ongoing operations reported when the company transfers control of a good or service to a customer, regardless of when the company is paid by the customer. Expenses: decreases in assets or increases in liabilities from ongoing operations, incurred to generate revenues during the current period. Whenever a business uses up its resources to generate revenues during the period, it reports an expense, regardless of when the company pays for the resources. Recorded in the body of the i/s.

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