Q. Explain about Manufacturing companies?
Manufacturing companies purchase materials convert them into products and then sell the products to other companies or else to the final consumers. Manufacturing companies comprise auto manufacturers, steel mills and clothing manufacturers.
All of these companies produce monetary statements as the final end product of their accounting process. These monetary statements provide relevant financial information both to those inside the company management and to those outside the company stockholders, creditors and other interested parties. The next segment introduces four common financial statements- the balance sheet, the income statement, the statement of retained earnings and the statement of cash flows.