Solution Manual For Fundamental Accounting Principles with Best Buy Annual Report, 19th Edition

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Chapter 1

Accounting in Business

QUESTIONS

1. The purpose of accounting is to provide decision makers with relevant and reliable
information to help them make better decisions. Examples include information for
people making investments, loans, and business plans.

2. Technology reduces the time, effort, and cost of recordkeeping. There is still a
demand for people who can design accounting systems, supervise their operation,
analyze complex transactions, and interpret reports. Demand also exists for people
who can effectively use computers to prepare and analyze accounting reports.
Technology will never substitute for qualified people with abilities to prepare, use,
analyze, and interpret accounting information.

3. External users and their uses of accounting information include: (a) lenders, to
measure the risk and return of loans; (b) shareholders, to assess whether to buy,
sell, or hold their shares; (c) directors, to oversee their interests in the organization;
(d) employees and labor unions, to judge the fairness of wages and assess future
employment opportunities; and (e) regulators, to determine whether the organization
is complying with regulations. Other users are voters, legislators, government
officials, contributors to nonprofits, suppliers and customers.

4. Business owners and managers use accounting information to help answer
questions such as: What resources does an organization own? What debts are
owed? How much income is earned? Are expenses reasonable for the level of
sales? Are customers’ accounts being promptly collected?

5. Service businesses include: Standard and Poor’s, Dun & Bradstreet, Merrill Lynch,
Southwest Airlines, CitiCorp, Humana, Charles Schwab, and Prudential. Businesses
offering products include Nike, Reebok, Gap, Apple Computer, Ford Motor Co.,
Philip Morris, Coca-Cola, Best Buy, and Circuit City.

6. The internal role of accounting is to serve the organization’s internal operating
functions. It does this by providing useful information for internal users in
completing their tasks more effectively and efficiently. By providing this information,
accounting helps the organization reach its overall goals.

7. Accounting professionals offer many services including auditing, management
advice, tax planning, business valuation, and money management.

8. Marketing managers are likely interested in information such as sales volume,
advertising costs, promotion costs, salaries of sales personnel, and sales
commissions.

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