From the course: Advanced Bookkeeping Techniques

Advancing your bookkeeping skills

From the course: Advanced Bookkeeping Techniques

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Advancing your bookkeeping skills

- Google's online advertising revenue accumulates second by second as you and I do Google searches and glimpse Google-sponsored ads. - So what bookkeeping process ensures that the revenues reported in Google's income statement is all of the company's revenue for the year? - Now let's think about Walmart. From its beginning in 1962, Walmart has generated worldwide sales of over 8 trillion dollars. - [Jim] What bookkeeping process ensures that the sales we see reported in Walmart's income statement is just this year's sales amount instead of the company's cumulative lifetime sales? - [Kay] How did the correction of an accounting error knock about $17 billion off the value of Groupon's IPO? - Hi, I'm Jim Stice. I'm a professor of accounting at Brigham Young University. This is my brother, Kay. - I'm also a professor of accounting at Brigham Young University. - Come, join us on LinkedIn Learning as we discuss higher level bookkeeping practices, such as adjusting entries, error corrections and closing entries.

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