Course detail

Accounting

FP-BucePAcad. year: 2021/2022

The subject is focused on the bases and basic principles of accounting, i.e. stress is placed on construction of the balance sheet, on changes in the balance sheet, on recognition of costs and revenues, on creation of profit/loss accounts and on cash-flow in an enterprise.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Zuzana Křížová, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Finances (ÚF)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will understand the basic principles of accounting and interconnection in accounting operations and in financial statements. Students will gain the skills of identification of accounting operations and their influence on the items of financial statements, and skills of preparation of financial statements.

Prerequisites

Basic general knowledge of business economics.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course contain one two-hour lecture per week that explains the basic principles, problems and methodology of the discipline, and a two-hour seminar per week promoting practical knowledge and applications of the material presented in the lectures.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Credit:
Credit written test (at the end of the semester). Pass mark 50 %.
Examination:
Written test with closed questions. Pass mark 50 %.
The credit will have a 40 % weighting in the overall course mark while the examination will account for 60 %.

Course curriculum

The course is focused on the fundamentals and basic principles of accountancy in the sense of putting together a balance sheet, changes in the balance sheet, the creation of costs and revenues and producing the profit and loss account.
Contents of the course
1. Characteristics of double-entry bookkeeping, legal treatment of bookkeeping in the Czech Republic, bookkeeping outputs.
2. Balance sheet, balance sheet changes.
3. Cost and revenues, profit or loss, profit and loss statement.
4. Fundamentals of bookkeeping, methodological instruments.
5. Basic accounting procedures for current and long-term assets, equity and liabilities.
6. Overview of costs and revenues, closing procedures of accounts.
7. Annual financial statements, their publishing and audit.
8. History of accounting, information and communication technology in accounting.
9. Regulation and harmonization of accounting, international reporting systems.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The objective of the subject is to educate students in the basic principles of accounting and in the primary interconnections in financial statements that are the key to an understanding of any accounting system.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Student´s participation on seminar is monitored.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BŘEZINOVÁ, H. Rozumíme účetní závěrce podnikatelů. 2. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2017. ISBN 978-80-7552-603-8.
České účetní standardy pro účetní jednotky č. 001 až 024, které účtují podle vyhlášky č. 500/2002 Sb., ve znění pozdějších předpisů.
Vyhláška č. 500/2002 Sb., kterou se provádějí některá ustanovení zákona č. 563/1991 Sb., o účetnictví, ve znění pozdějších předpisů, pro účetní jednotky, které jsou podnikateli účtujícími v soustavě podvojného účetnictví.
Zákon č. 563/1991 Sb., o účetnictví, ve znění pozdějších předpisů.

Recommended reading

BŘEZINOVÁ, H. Rozumíme účetní závěrce podnikatelů. 4. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2020. ISBN 978-80-7598-913-0
MALBURG, C. R. Accounting for the New Business. Adams Media Corporation Avon, Massachutsetts. ISBN 1-55850-759-0.
STROUHAL, J. a kol. Meritum - Účetnictví podnikatelů. Praha: Wolter Kluwer, 2017. ISBN 978-80-7552-518-5.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BAK-MIn Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme BAK-PM Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Zuzana Křížová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Contents of the lectures
1. Basic terms and concepts of accounting, legislation and annual financial statements in the Czech Republic
2. Balance sheet, for main balance sheet changes.
3. Cost and revenues, profit and loss, statement
4. Fundamental rules of bookkeeping, methodological instruments.
5. Basic double-entry procedures of current assets (financial accounts and inventory)
6. Basic double-entry procedures of accounts receivables and payables
7. Basic double-entry procedures of fixed assets
8. Basic double-entry procedures of equity and long-term liabilities
9. Overview of costs and revenues, closing procedures of accounts
10. Annual financial statements, their making public and audit
11. History of accounting, information technology in bookkeeping
12. Regulation of accounting, national and international reporting systems
13. Harmonization of accounting across the world

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Zuzana Křížová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Content of the seminars
1. Characteristics of double entry accounting, legal treatment of
bookkeeping in the Czech Republic, bookkeeping outputs
2. Balance sheet, balance sheet changes
3. Profit and loss account, creation of profit
4. Fundamentals of bookkeeping, methodological instruments
5. Financial accounts (characteristics, evaluation and accounting for money,
short-term loans and short-term securities)
6. Current assets – inventory (characteristics, valuation, accounting)
7. Clearing relations - receivables (especially trade receivables)
8. Clearing relations - payables (especially trade payables and for employees
and shareholders)
9. Fixed assets (acquisition, depreciation, elimination)
10. Equity, long-term outside sources (accounting for profit and long-term
loans)
11. Costs and revenues (operational and financial)
12. Written test
13. Discussion test results