FINM7409 Tutorial 1
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FINM7409
Tutorial 1
1.1. What is the purpose of producing accounting information?
1.2. What type of accounting information is produced more frequently? Why?
1.3. Identify the similarities and differences between the three major external financial reports (statement of financial position, statement of financial performance and statement of cash flows).
1.4. Distinguish between ‘accounting entities’ and ‘legal entities’ as business structures. 1.5. As business changes, accounting must change. Do you agree?
1.7. Distinguish between ‘planning’ and ‘control’ .
1.9. How are annual budgets linked to the long-term plans of an organisation?
1.11. As an owner of a small business, what are three key financial attributes of the business you would wish to assess when you review financial reports?
1.12. Reconcile financial accounting with management accounting. Your textbook clearly distinguishes between them. What are the similarities?
1.13. What is meant by the ‘risk–return relationship’? Provide a non-accounting example of the trade- off between risk and return.
1.14. Describe two advantages for each type of business organisation.
1.15. In relation to recent corporate crashes, what have been the main lessons in relation to the accounting process (recording and reporting procedures)?
1.18. Financial accounting statements tend to reflect past events. In view of this, how can they help a user make a decision when decisions, by their very nature, can only be made about future actions?
1.19. However a business is organised, it must meet the needs or demands of various stakeholders.
What are the different types of business structure?
What is meant by the term ‘stakeholder’?
Who are the stakeholders for each type of business?
What are their needs or demands, and why should they be met?
Will stakeholder demands affect the choice of business structure?
1.20. The global financial crisis showed us that risk is bad. Do you agree?
1.21. “The statement of financial performance reflects the financial performance for the period and explains the changes in the statement of financial position.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why?
1.26. Do you think, from your own experience, that the ideas of stakeholder theory, as compared with the traditional search for profit, are gaining much ground, and if so in which areas and ways?
1.27. What kind of information might you collect if you thought that you needed to figure out how to create value, not just for investors, but for customers, suppliers, employees and communities?
2022-08-31