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ACCT 2301 Ch 3 Terms
ACCT 2301 Chapter 3 Terms
Question | Answer |
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Account | An individual accounting record of increases and decreases in specific asset, liability, stockholder's equity, revenue or expense items. |
Accounting Information System | The system of collecting and processing transaction data and communicating financial information to decision-makers. |
Accounting Transactions | Events that require recording in the financial statements because they affect assets, liabilities, or stockholder's equity. |
Chart of Accounts | A list of a company's accounts. |
Credit | The right side of an account. |
Debit | The left side of an account. |
Double-Entry System | A system that records the two-sided effect of each transaction in appropriate accounts. |
General Journal | The most basic form of journal. |
General Ledger | A ledger that contains all asset, liability, stockholders' equity, revenue, and expense accounts. |
Journal | An accounting record in which transactions are initially recorded in chronological order. |
Journalizing | The procedure of entering transaction data in the journal. |
Ledger | The group of accounts maintained by a company. |
Posting | The procedure of transferring journal entry amounts to the ledger accounts. |
T-Account | The basic form of an account. |
Trial Balance | A list of accounts and their balances at a given time. |