Training—Accounting Tools and Practices

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Training—Accounting Tools and Practices. Develop either a training deck (12-15 slides) or training
manual (3-4 pages) to ensure new hires have a solid understanding of income statements, balance sheets, and the elements that go into them.

Introduction

This portfolio work project will help you to not only better understand commonly used accounting tools, but it will also give you the opportunity to use your skills and experience by preparing training materials to train someone else.

Scenario

You work for an organization that is seeking growth and recently has hired new district managers to assist in this growth. In talking to other regional managers, you have heard that some district managers do not have a thorough understanding of commonly used accounting tools including an income statement and balance sheet.

You have a new district manager hire, John, and see the need to do some training
with him so he has a solid understanding of income statements, balance sheets, and the elements that go into them, including  advertising costs, Web development costs, and store opening costs. In
preparing to train your new hire, you have determined that the use of examples (a picture is worth a thousand words) can be a great approach to use. So you have decided to gather some examples from the
company’s summary of significant accounting policies from its  latest financial statements. You may apply this scenario to either Option 1 or Option 2, described in Requirements below. Your Role You
are a regional manager for Urban Outfitters or your selected organization and oversee a number of districts. You have recently brought a new district manager on board and want to ensure he has the
knowledge and tools needed to effectively do his job.

Requirements

Training—Accounting Tools and Practices

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Option 1:

The organization you work for is Urban Outfitters. Use the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission website to find the Urban Outfitter’s 2016–2017 financial statement’s summary of
significant accounting policies. Look at the data for 2015, 2016, and 2017 for the following examples of essential elements you need to  cover with John and ensure his understanding.

Advertising. Examine
the criteria used to expense and capitalize advertising costs and where these costs appear in the financial statement.

Store opening costs. Examine how store opening and organization costs were handled
and where these costs appear in the financial statement.

Website development costs. Examine the approaches taken during the application and infrastructure development stage and the planning and
operating stage.

Option2:

Use a firm or scenario of your choosing. Before choosing a company, read the assessment thoroughly to ensure: The company fits the assessment requirements. You have access to the financial
statement’s summary of significant accounting policies and the Note disclosures from which you are drawing your materials. Include this information in the appendix for reference.

You
can distribute the data without disclosing confidential company
information. Training Materials As you prepare your training
materials for John, use the examples you collected from the company’s
Notes to financial documents to illustrate how you address the
following items:

Explain
how one or more of the following costs are captured:

Advertising.
Store opening. If store opening costs were capitalized, over what time period would you amortize them?

Explain
why you selected this time period. Website development. Analyze the importance of Notes to financial statements in interpreting financial statements.

Explain
how the accounting method the company uses affects the financial statements.

Explain
how the financial statements would differ if another method were used to capture the costs.

If
you have a preference for capitalizing or expensing these costs, explain why it is your preferenc