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Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Accountancy

Stakeholder Needs and Financial Information

AB301 · Recording Financial Transactions — Week 2 of 16

CourseAB301
Week2 of 16
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This week’s topics

Stakeholder Needs and Financial Information

  1. Internal stakeholders including managers and owners
  2. External stakeholders including HMRC and lenders
  3. Trade creditors and suppliers
  4. Assessing organizational solvency and profitability
  5. Stakeholders | What is a Stakeholder?
  6. Key Concepts on Financial and Management Accounting

What you will be able to do

  • 1.2 Describe how the recording of financial transactions meets the needs of the organisation’s internal and external stakeholders.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: describe how the recording of financial transactions meets the needs of the organisation’s internal and external stakeholders.

Study materials

Videos

  • Stakeholders | What is a Stakeholder? · YouTube · Two Teachers · 11 min · for registered students
  • Key Concepts on Financial and Management Accounting · YouTube · Galton College · 10 min · for registered students
  • Stakeholders and Stakeholder Mapping · YouTube · tutor2u · 8 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Principles of Accounting Vol. 1, ch. 1.2: Users of accounting information · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 14–16 · for registered students
  • Financial Accounting, ch. 3: In What Form Is Financial Information Actually Delivered to Decision Makers Such as Investors and Creditors? · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 62–99 · for registered students
  • Introduction to Business 2e, ch. 14.7: Analysing financial statements · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 492–495 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Purpose of Recording Financial Transactions
  • Week 2: Stakeholder Needs and Financial Information
  • Week 3: Principal Source Documents
  • Week 4: Preparation of Business Source Documents
  • Week 5: Books of Prime Entry Overview
  • Week 6: Cash and Bank Prime Records
  • Week 7: Preparing Books of Prime Entry
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Capital and Revenue Classification
  • Week 10: Accounting Approaches for Capital and Revenue Items
  • Week 11: Evaluating Misclassification of Capital and Revenue
  • Week 12: Applying Recording Financial Transactions in practice: case…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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