CHAPTER 1: Financial Statements and Business Decisions
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Focus Company: Le-Nature’s Inc.
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CHAPTER 2: Investing and Financing Decisions and the Accounting System
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Focus Company: Chipotle Mexican Grill
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CHAPTER 3: Operating Decisions and the Accounting System
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Focus Company: Chipotle Mexican Grill
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CHAPTER 4: Adjustments, Financial Statements, and the Closing Process
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Focus Company: Chipotle Mexican Grill
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CHAPTER 5: Communicating and Analyzing Accounting Information
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Focus Company: Apple Inc.
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CHAPTER 6: Reporting and Interpreting Sales Revenue, Receivables, and Cash
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Focus Company: Skechers U.S.A.
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CHAPTER 7: Reporting and Interpreting Cost of Goods Sold and Inventory
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Focus Company: Harley-Davidson, Inc.
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CHAPTER 8: Reporting and Interpreting Property, Plant, and Equipment; Intangibles; and Natural Reso
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urces
Focus Company: FedEx Corporation
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CHAPTER 9: Reporting and Interpreting Liabilities
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Focus Company: Starbucks
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CHAPTER 10: Reporting and Interpreting Bond Securities
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Focus Company: Amazon
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CHAPTER 11: Reporting and Interpreting Stockholders’ Equity
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Focus Company: Microsoft
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CHAPTER 12: Statement of Cash Flows
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Focus Company: National Beverage Corporation
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CHAPTER 13: Analyzing Financial Statements
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Focus Company: The Home Depot
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1. Accounting is a system that collects and processes (analyzes, measures, and recor
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ds) financial information about an organization and reports that information todecisi
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2. Financial accounting involves preparation of the four basic financial statements andr
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elated disclosures for external decision makers. Managerial accounting involves the
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preparation of detailed plans, budgets, forecasts, and performance reports for intern
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al decision makers.
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3. Financial reports are used by both internal and external groups and individuals. Thei
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nternal groups are comprised of the various managers of the entity. The external gro
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ups include the owners, investors, creditors, governmental agencies, other intereste
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d parties, and the public at large.
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4. Investors purchase all or part of a business and hope to gain by receiving part of wh
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at the company earns and/or selling their ownership interest in the company in the f
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uture at a higher price than they paid. Creditors lend money to a company fora spec
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ific length of time and hope to gain by charging interest on the loan.
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, 5. In a society, each organization can be defined as a separate accounting entity. An ac
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counting entity is the organization for which financial data are to be collected. Typical
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accounting entities are a business, a church, a governmental unit, a university and o
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ther nonprofit organizations such as a hospital and a welfare organization. A busines
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s typically is defined and treated as a separate entity because the owners, creditors, i
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nvestors, and other interested parties need to evaluate its performance and its poten
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tial separately from other entities and from itsowners.
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6. Name of Statement GJ GJ Alternative Title GJ
(a) Income Statement GJ (a) Statement of Earnings; Statement of
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Income; Statement of Operations GJ GJ GJ
(b) Balance Sheet GJ (b) Statement of Financial Position
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(c) Cash Flow Statement GJ GJ (c) Statement of Cash Flows
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7. The heading of each of the four required financial statements should include thef
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8. (a)
The purpose of the income statement is to present information about the rev
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enues, expenses, and the net income of an entity for a specified period oftime
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(b) The purpose of the balance sheet is to report the financial position of an entityat
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a given date, that is, to report information about the assets, liabilities and stock
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holders’ equity of the entity as of a specific date. GJ GJ GJ GJ GJ GJ GJ GJ GJ
(c) The purpose of the statement of cash flows is to present information about thefl
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ow of cash into the entity (sources), the flow of cash out of the entity (uses), and
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the net increase or decrease in cash during the period.
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(d) The statement of stockholders’ equity reports the changes in each of the comp
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any’s stockholders’ equity accounts during the accounting period, including iss
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ue and repurchase of stock and the way that net income and distribution of divi
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dends affected the retained earnings of the company duringthat period.
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9. The income statement and the statement of cash flows are dated ―For the Year E
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nded December 31‖ because they report the inflows and outflows of resources du
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ring a period of time. In contrast, the balance sheet is dated ―At December 31‖bec
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ause it represents the resources, obligations, and stockholders’ equity at a specifi
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c date.
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