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Accounting and financial statements
© Consider the aifferent types of accounting and financial
statements
(© Discuss a company’s financial results
Lead-in
+ Whats accounting?
What skills do you think accountants need?
+ Doyou think you have these skills? (What are: your assets
and liabilities?)
«+ Ifyou have not yet chosen a career, could itbe accountancy?
Vocabulary -petnaps we could a way 0 rdotine oft”
+ Which basic accounting words are defined below? ee
"all the money received irom business activities during given period
Aassets Biincorne transactions
2 ee ney that a business spends on goods or services during a given Period
Adebis Bexpenditure liabilities
4 cfnancial operating plan showing expected income and expenditure
account Budget C financial statement
4s aything owned by a business ~ cash, buildings, mactines,equpment ee
Aasset Bincome Crevenue
5 ca the money that a company will have to pay to someone ese nthe futures
including debts, taxes and interest payments
A debits Bexpenditure liabilities
6 anentry in an account, recording @ payment macle
Acredit Bdebt debit
7 anentry in an account, recording a payment received
Acredit Bdebit income
adjective describing something without a material existence, ‘which you can’t touch
Acurrent B intangible C tangible
«9 adjective describing aliabilty which has been incurred but not yet invoiced to the
company
accrued Badeterred C receivable
10 delayed or postponed until a later time
A deferred B payable C retained
2 How well do you know the different types of accounting and the diferent
em anes of the accounting (or accountancy) profession? Match the terms
‘with the definitions in the box below.
accounting auditing bookkeeping _cost accounting
acotive eecounting’ managerial or management accounting ‘6% accounting
+ calelatingallthe expenses involved in producing something, including materi
labour, and all other expenses
‘Acoounting and financial statements Unit 1@ 952 calculating how much an individual or a company will have to pay to the local and
national governments (and trying to reduce this to a minimum)
3 inspecting and reporting on accounts and financial records
4 preparing financial statements showing income and expenditure, assets and
liabilities
5 providing information that will allow a business to make decisions, plan future
operations and develop business strategies
6 using all available accounting procedures and tricks to disguise the true financtal
position of a company
7 writing down the details of transactions (debits and credits)
* Which of these areas of accounting do you find the most interest
3 Match up the names of the financial statements with the definitions below.
- ——__
1 Balance sheet (or 2 Cash flow statement |3 income statement (or
Statement of financial Statement of income, Profit
position) and loss statement, or
Profit and loss account)
A asstatement giving details of money coming into and leaving the business, divided
into day-to-day operations, investing and financing
B astatement showing the difference between the revenues and expenses of a period
€ astatement showing the value ofa business's assets, its lablties, and its capital or
shareholders’ equity (money the business has that belongs to its owners)
‘4 Make common word combinations with the verbs and nouns below.
calculate
assets ]
expenditure
income
liabilities
records |
taxes
transactions
Reading 1: Google Inc. Balance sheet
Look at the balance sheet opposite, and answer these questions,
1 Which lines on the balance sheet do the defritions 4 tthe 2008 balance sheet date, which s greater,
below it refer to? (Two have been done as the amount of capital the shareholders have paid
examples.) into the company, or the amount of profit that has
2 Which two figures have to be the same (to balance), not been spent?
by definition? 5 At the 2008 balance sheet date, which total is
3 How much money had the company already paid in higher the money Google currently owes, or the
advance for goods and services, on the date of the money that tis owed?
2008 balance sheet?
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10 the ifference between the urct
tangible assets
17 the total amount
fase price of acquired companies, and their net
of money owed that the company wil have to pay out
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