Accounting for Non Accountants

Code

765

Start Date

2025-11-09

End Date

2025-11-13

City

San Francisco

Price

6950 $

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1-15

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Hotel Meeting Room

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INTRODUCTION

This training introduces the role of accounting in supporting and informing all business decisions throughout the organization. It is designed for those who access, use, and rely upon accounting information, but do not have accounting training or background. This training seminar will give you access to the world of accounting, from basic principles, using plain language.Those who attend this Accounting for Non-Accountants training will gain a clear understanding of the structures of the accounting system, the information it contains, and how it can be accessed. You will learn, from numerous practical examples and illustrations, how the information on business transactions and activities, input to the accounting system is used throughout the organization. You will understand how accounting provides essential support to routine operations, decision-making, and effective business control.

Target Audience

Managers, supervisors and staff from any function including the accounting department who need to improve their understanding, application and techniques of the language of numbers.

Target Competencies

Accounting for business transactions
Preparing income statements
Interpreting balance sheets
Analyzing cash flow statements
- Preparing adjustment entries
- Using debits and credits
- Applying international financial reporting standards

Course Outline:

Introducing accounting and financial statements
- Definition of accounting
- Users of accounting information
- Basic financial statements
- The corporation defined
- Presentation of accounting information by different business entities
International financial reporting standards
- The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
- Introduction to IFRS
- Main differences between IFRS and US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
Double-entry accounting
- The accounting equation
- Traditional double-entry bookkeeping
- Your asset is his liability
- The chart of accounts
- The general journal
- The general ledger
- The trial balance
- Modern bookkeeping: automating transactions
Income statements
- Defining the income statement
- Defining revenue and its recognition
- Defining expenditures and their classifications
- Calculating profit
- Gross profit
- Operating profit
- Net profit
- The income statement illustrated
Net equity
- Defining capital stock
- Dividends are not an expense
- Cash dividends, stock dividends and stock split
- Definition of treasury stock
- Retained earnings - not the same as cash
The balance sheet and its components
- Defining the balance sheet
- Assets
- Liabilities
- Equity
- Current versus non-current assets and liabilities
- The balance sheet illustrated
Cash flow statement
- Defining the statement of cash flows
- Cash and cash equivalents
- Classification of cash flows
  - Operating activities
  - Investing activities
  - Financing activities
- The cash flow statement illustrated
Adjustments to financial statements
- The accrual concepts
- Accruals and prepayments
- Depreciation
- Bad debts
- Provisions for contingencies

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