Accounting and Inventory

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For this assignment week three Financial Accounting course, our class has been tasked with using what we have learned thus-far. Once we have created this spreadsheet we will apply the skills we have learned by applying what we know in this financial spreadsheet. This spreadsheet will be capable of tracking and accounting many different aspects of business transaction. As an example, there will be several types of transaction, but for example, the financial spreadsheet that will account for items such as for financial gains, accounts payable, and several types of financial adjustments to inventory.
The examples in our textbook generalized the types of gains and losses we are to financially account for in the spreadsheet. But to put this assignment in perspective of my previous experiences onboard a US Navy vessel, the changes made by inventory gains and losses are called “GBI's/LBI's”, which are Gains by Inventory and Losses by Inventory. The +/- changes to these these stock numbered items; mainly caused by human error., account for money that either goes back into stock for materials or cause monies spent to reorder items to bring storeroom materials up to optimum operating levels.
In my spreadsheet I have created I used similar textbook events to simulate some of the events that would take place as tracked business events. The business events tracked are simulating an already established business that is carrying over previous months balances. Using this procedure allowed me to understand the process better, being able to better relate how we perform our duties aboard ship in financial accounting and merging it with the procedures used in the civilian sector.
To begin I used a beginning balance of $100,000.00 to bett...

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