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1 Balance Sheeet
1 Balance Sheeet
• Liability
• Liabilities are obligations to transfer assets or provide services to outside
parties arising from events that have already happened
• Ex. Loan, advances taken and service is yet to be made
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Shareholders Equity
The owners’ equity section of the balance sheet shows the amount the owners
have invested in the entity, it is also labelled as shareholders’ equity or
stockholders’ equity.
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Classification of Assets
• Current Assets
Assets that can be converted into cash within one year/ or in a business cycle (either
sold/ consumed)
Examples : Cash, Inventory, marketable securities, Accounts receivables etc.,
• Non-Current Assets
• Fixed Assets
• Intangible Assets
• Long term investments
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• Fixed Assets
Refer to long- term tangible assets and intended to have useful life of more than an
year
Example: Land, Building, Machinery etc.,
• Intangible Assets
Non Physical Asset or non-monetary assets
Example: Patent, trademarks etc.,
• Long-Term Debt
Financial obligations that needs to be paid in the future (more than an year)
Example: Loans, Bonds etc.,
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• Basic concepts related to B/S
1. Money measurement
• A record of any transaction will be made on the B/S on when it can be expressed in
monetary terms.
• Truck –value of it has to be on B/S.
• If you have tell about the value of a company it would be easy if all the assets and
liabilities can be expressed in monetary terms.
1. Entity
• Accounts are kept for entity not for the persons who own the entity
• Owners expenses are different from the company’s expense
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3. Going concern
• We assume that it will continue to operate for an indefinitely long period in the future
3. Cost
• Asset is entered initially in the accounting records at the price paid to acquire it—at its
cost
• Fair market value is different from the cost at which the asset was acquired
• Rationale??
3. Dual aspect
• Assets of the entity are sourced either through liabilities or through owner’s equity
• At any point of time the value of assets is equal to sum of liabilities and owner’s equity
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Balance Sheet Equation
At any point of time the following equation holds