Accounting II

Overview

Accounting II expands on what students learned in Accounting I, changing the focus to corporate accounting. Lesson topics include how corporations are formed and structured, with an emphasis on corporate characteristics. It offers an in-depth look at managerial accounting.

Course Text

Wild, John J., Kermit D. Larson, and Barbara Chiappetta. Fundamental Accounting Principles, Volume 2 (Chapters 12-25), 18th edition. McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2007. ISBN: 9780073286624

Course Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the accounting techniques used in corporations, including accounting for stock transactions.
  • Discuss the various types of corporate investments, differentiating between influential and non-influential investments.
  • Apply the tools of financial analysis to perform horizontal and vertical analysis.
  • Calculate and interpret various financial ratios.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of, and ability to prepare, a statement of cash flows.
  • Define managerial accounting and understand the techniques used in cost accounting.
  • Demonstrate the ability to prepare financial statements for a manufacturing company.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of process cost accounting systems, including the use of equivalent units of production.
  • Use various allocation methods to allocate overhead and indirect costs.
  • Compute break-even and cost-revenue analysis values and understand how to interpret the results.
  • Define a master budget and how it is used in a business.
  • Discuss a flexible budget and the role of standard costs in the budgeting process.
  • Describe a capital budget and discuss the role of the time value of money in the budgeting process.

Course Prerequisites

You must have taken Accounting I or its equivalent to be eligible for enrollment in this course.

Course Evaluation Criteria

StraighterLine does not apply letter grades. Students earn a score as a percentage of 100%. A passing percentage is 70% or higher.

If you have chosen a Partner College to award credit for this course, your final grade will be based upon that college's grading scale. Only passing scores will be considered by Partner Colleges for an award of credit.

There are a total of 1000 points in the course.

Topic Assessment Points Available
1 Graded Quiz A 30
2 Graded Quiz B 30
3 Graded Quiz C 30
3 Graded Exam #1 150
4 Graded Quiz D 30
5 Graded Quiz E 30
6 Graded Quiz F 20
7
 Graded Quiz G 20
7 Graded Exam #2 150
8 Graded Quiz H 30
9
 Graded Quiz I 30
10
 Graded Quiz J 30
11 Graded Quiz K 30
11 Graded Exam #3 150
12 Graded Quiz L 30
13 Graded Quiz M 30
14 Graded Quiz N
 30
14 Graded Exam #4 150

Course Topics and Objectives

Topic Lesson Topic Subtopics Objectives
1 Accounting for Corporations
  • Forming a Corporation
  • Types of Stock and Dividends
  • Recording Stock Transactions
  • Reporting Earnings and Equity
  • Define the term corporation and explain how corporations are structured and formed.
  • Differentiate between common stock, preferred stock and treasury stock and explain how dividends work.
  • Demonstrate the ability to record stock transactions
  • Describe the various procedures for reporting earnings and equity.
2 Accounting for Corporate Bonds
  • Types of Bonds and Accounting for Dividends
  • Issuance of Bonds
  • Bond Retirement
  • Notes payable as a financing option
  • Explain the types of bonds and describe the procedures relating to dividends.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of bond issuance procedures.
  • Discuss the bond retirement process.
  • Describe the use of notes payable as a financing option for corporations.
3 Corporate Investments
  • Types and class of investments
  • Accounting for non-influential investments
  • Influential investments
  • Explain a corporation's motivation for purchasing investments.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the accounting procedures for influential investments.
  • Describe the various types and classes of investments.
  • Discuss the procedures to account for non-influential investments.
4 Corporate Financial Statement Analysis
  • Analysis Overview
  • Vertical Analysis
  • Horizontal Analysis
  • Ratio Analysis
  • Describe the purpose and basic tools of financial statement analysis.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of vertical analysis.
  • Explain vertical analysis procedures.
  • Calculate financial statement ratios including ratios on profit, liquidity, and financial strength.
5 Statement of Cash Flows
  • Purpose and importance of Statement of Cash Flows
  • Cash Flows from Operations
  • Cash Flows from Investments
  • Cash Flows from Financing
  • Explain the importance and purpose of a statement of cash flows.
  • Demonstrate the ability to prepare a statement of cash flows.
  • Distinguish between cash flows from operations, investments, and financing.
6 Managerial Accounting
  • Purpose and Nature of Managerial Accounting
  • Managerial Costs Concepts
  • Profit and Cost Centers
  • Departmental Operations and Income Statements
  • Explain the purpose and nature of Managerial Accounting.
  • Discuss managerial accounting concepts, including cost classifications.
  • Describe the use of profit and cost centers in managerial accounting.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of departmental accounting operations, including preparation of departmental financial statements.
7 Manufacturing Accounting
  • Cost of Goods Manufactured Statement
  • Manufacturing Income Statement
  • Balance Sheet for Manufacturing Company
  • Manufacturing Business's Accounting Cycle
  • Explain the purpose and usefulness of a statement of cost of goods manufactured.
  • Demonstrate the ability to prepare a manufacturing company's income statement.
  • Demonstrate the ability to prepare a manufacturing company's balance sheet.
  • Discuss the procedures involved in a manufacturing company's accounting cycle.
8 Job Order Accounting
  • Process Cost Accounting System
  • Process Operations
  • Accounting for Job Orders
  • Equivalent Units of Production
  • Define the term process cost accounting.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the process operations of a company.
  • Explain the importance of process inventory in process cost accounting.
  • Discuss the term equivalent units of production and its role in process cost accounting.
9 Process Cost Accounting
  • Process Cost Accounting System
  • Process Operations
  • Accounting for Job Orders
  • Equivalent Units of Production
  • Define the term process accounting.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the process operations of a company.
  • Explain the importance of process inventory in process cost accounting.
  • Discuss the term equivalent units of production and its role in process cost accounting.
10 Cost Allocation
  • Allocating Overhead Costs
  • Departmental Accounting with Cost Allocation.
  • Allocating Indirect Expenses
  • Responsibility Accounting
  • Explain how overhead is allocated under the two-stage and activity-based allocation methods.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of how indirect expenses are allocated.
  • Discuss departmental accounting allocation of expenses.
  • Describe a responsibility accounting system and the key components of that system.
11 Cost Analysis
  • Cost Behaviors
  • Measuring Costs Behaviors
  • Break-Even Analysis
  • Cost-Revenue Analysis
  • Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
  • Discuss various costs behaviors, including fixed, variable and mixed costs.
  • Explain the procedure for measuring cost behaviors.
  • Describe the benefits of using a break-even analysis.
  • Demonstrate the ability to do cost-volume-profit analysis.
  • Discuss cost-revenue analysis.
12 Master Budgets
  • Budgeting Process
  • Administrative Procedures Regarding Budgets
  • Master Budgets
  • Describe the budgeting process.
  • Discuss the uses of budgets as a management tool.
  • Explain the purpose of a master budget.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of budget management procedures and administration.
13 Flexible Budgets and Standard Costs
  • Cost Behaviors in the Budgeting Process
  • Fixed Budget
  • Standard Costs
  • Standard Costs as a Management Tool
  • Flexible Budgets
  • Discuss the cost behaviors of variable and fixed costs.
  • Explain the prepa of a fixed budget.
  • Describe the use of standard costs in the budgeting process.
14 Capital Budgets and Managerial Decisions
  • Capital Budgeting Without Accounting for Time Value of Money
  • Capital Budgeting Factoring in the Time Value of Money
  • Managerial Decision Making
  • Define the term capital budget and explain how capital budgets are usedby managers.
  • Differentiate between a capital budget that accounts for the time value of money and one that does not.
  • Discuss how management uses accounting information to make decisions.
15 Review
  • Accounting for Corporate Bonds
  • Corporate Investments
  • Corporate Financial Statement Analysis
  • Statement of Cash Flows
  • Managerial Accounting
  • Manufacturing Accounting
  • Job Order Accounting
  • Process Cost Accounting
  • Cost Allocation
  • Cost Analysis
  • Master Budgets
  • Flexible Budgets and Standard Costs
  • Capital Budgets and Managerial Decisions
  • None

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