Accounting for managers
- Credits: 6
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 2P + 2C
- Semester: winter
- Year: 2
- Faculty of Economics and Finance
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
The main goal of the course is to teach the students to use the information from the financial statements, understand the economic factors which could affect them and the apply the accounting principles in the process of their preparation. The students will acquire information necessary for their compilation. In addition, the students acquire knowledge about the structure of the financial statements and the relation between its various parts, reflecting the requirements of the various frameworks for accounting. Based on the financial metrics derived of the financial statements, the students will be able to evaluate and present the financial position of the entity, assess its financial stability a to use the acquired information for their economics decisions.
Knowledge – acquire knowledge necessary for the compilation of the financial statements; skills – to determine the related financial metrics; competence – to assess the financial stability of an entity
Indicative content
Financial statements and its use in practice by leading international companies and in the SR. Factors which contribute to the results presented in the financial statements. Legal framework of accounting and its impact on the comparability of the accounting data. Financial analysis and the elements of the financial statements (assets, liability, equity, expenses, income, cash flows). Measurement of assets and liabilities. Description of the financial statements and its compilation. Accounting for selected transactions, events and and their compilation.
Support literature
1. Šlosárová, A. - Blahušiaková, M. 2020. Analýza účtovnej závierky. Bratislava : Wolters
Kluwer SR. ISBN 978-80-571-01666-6
2. Juhászová, Z. a kol. 2021. Účtovníctvo. Bratislava : Wolters Kluwer SR
3. Tumpach, M. - Gedeon, M. - Parajka, B. - Surovičová, A. 2023. Účtovníctvo pre manažérov a
pre podnikateľov. Zbierka príkladov. Bratislava : SKCÚ
Odporúčaná (aktuálne právne normy pre oblasť účtovníctva v SR):
1. Zákon č. 431/2002 Z. z. o účtovníctve v znení neskorších predpisov.
2. Opatrenie Ministerstva financií č. 23054/2002 –92 ktorým sa ustanovujú podrobnosti o postupoch účtovania a rámcovej účtovej osnove pre podnikateľov účtujúcich v sústave podvojného účtovníctva v znení neskorších predpisov.
3. Opatrenie Ministerstva financií Slovenskej republiky z 3. decembra 2014 č. MF/23377/2014-74, ktorým sa ustanovujú podrobnosti o individuálnej účtovnej závierke a rozsahu údajov určených z individuálnej účtovnej závierky na zverejnenie pre veľké účtovné jednotky a subjekty verejného záujmu v znení neskorších predpisov
3. LEO, Ken J John Sweeting, KNAPP Jeffrey, McGOWAN Susan: Company accounting. 10 th. Ed. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Australia 2015. 1392 pages ISBN 9781118608173
Syllabus
1. Accounting information for investors: financial statements of selected companies quoted at New York Stock Exchange and analysis of the scope of disclosed information. Register of the financial statements in the SR. 2. Economic and non-economic factors contributing to results presented in the financial statements (changes in the level of the production, provision of services and sales of goods and merchandise; changes of cost from operating and financing activities; fraudulent financial reporting). 3. Alternative ways of accounting for selected transactions, events and other conditions on the economic results of a company. Accounting regulation and its impact on comparability of accounting information. National and international (IFRS) legal framework of accounting. 4. Selected financial metrics and their relation to financial statements. Definitions and criteria for the recognition of the elements of the financial statements (assets, liabilities, expenses, income). 5. Measurement of assets and liabilities and its impact on the metrics of financial analysis. Historical costs, current value, and fair value. 6. Accounting records, books of accounting and their use in the process of the preparation of financial statements. 7. Accounting for funding of entities from the contribution of the owners, credits and loans. 8. Accounting for acquisition of assets and its use in the process of manufacturing, sale and / or provision of services. 9. Accounting for financial assets. 10. Stock-taking of assets and liabilities. Use of estimates in accounting. 11. Preparation and presentation of the Balance-sheet. 12. Preparation and presentation of the Income statements. 13. Preparation and presentation of the Cash flow statements.
Requirements to complete the course
26 hours of lectures
26 hours of seminars
26 hours of preparation for the seminars
24 hours of preparation for the interim concept check test (30 % of the overall grading)
54 hours of preparation for the exam,
- out of which 24 hours of the preparation for the exercises (30 % of the overall grading)
- out of which 30 hours of the preparation for the compilation and the analysis of the financial statements of a company (40 % of the overall grading
Language whose command is required to complete the course
slovak
Date of approval: 11.03.2024
Date of the latest change: 23.10.2023