{"id":92,"date":"2018-04-16T19:06:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T19:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=92"},"modified":"2024-04-26T22:12:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T22:12:35","slug":"accounting-principles-overview","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/chapter\/accounting-principles-overview\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Accounting Principles","rendered":"Introduction to Accounting Principles"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do:\u00a0Explore the fundamentals of accounting<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright  wp-image-3291\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3795\/2018\/04\/09233829\/376143268_8655d3fbef_b.jpg\" alt=\"A store front with a large sign in black and white that says &quot;going out of business&quot;.\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" \/>The primary objective of financial accounting reporting is to provide useful, relevant information to lenders and investors. That is why the FASB has constructed the conceptual framework of accounting rules called Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Underlying the conceptual framework is the notion that in order for the information to be useful, it has to be complete, neutral, and free from material error.\r\n\r\nIn this section, we\u2019ll describe the concept of the economic accounting entity and the importance of the going concern concept; define consistency, full disclosure, materiality, verifiability, and importance of making conservative choices in accounting policies; and explain the accrual basis of accounting and how it is different than the cash basis that you are probably more familiar with.","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do:\u00a0Explore the fundamentals of accounting<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3291\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3795\/2018\/04\/09233829\/376143268_8655d3fbef_b.jpg\" alt=\"A store front with a large sign in black and white that says &quot;going out of business&quot;.\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" \/>The primary objective of financial accounting reporting is to provide useful, relevant information to lenders and investors. That is why the FASB has constructed the conceptual framework of accounting rules called Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Underlying the conceptual framework is the notion that in order for the information to be useful, it has to be complete, neutral, and free from material error.<\/p>\n<p>In this section, we\u2019ll describe the concept of the economic accounting entity and the importance of the going concern concept; define consistency, full disclosure, materiality, verifiability, and importance of making conservative choices in accounting policies; and explain the accrual basis of accounting and how it is different than the cash basis that you are probably more familiar with.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-92\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Accounting Principles. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Joe Cooke. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>going out of business. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: timetrax23. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/zeQhL\">https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/zeQhL<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":62559,"menu_order":11,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"going out of business\",\"author\":\"timetrax23\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/zeQhL\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Accounting Principles\",\"author\":\"Joe Cooke\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"8625104f-cb04-434e-8b44-e0317d7a30e1","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-92","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":28,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62559"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/92\/revisions\/3255"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/28"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/92\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}