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Financial Statements

17 August, 2015 - 09:49
LO4 – Identify and explain the uses of the four financial statements.
 

Recall that financial accounting focuses on communicating information to external users. That information is communicated using financialstatements. There are four financial statements: the income statement, statement of changes in equity, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Each of these is briefly introduced in the following sections using an example based on a fictitious corporate organization called Big Dog Carworks Corp. (“Corp.” is the abbreviated form of “Corporation”.)