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Accounting
Chapter 1
Question | Answer |
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Accounting | Planning, recording, analyzing, and interpreting financial information. |
Accounting system | A planned process fro provding financial information that will be useful to management. |
accounting records | Organized summaries of a business's finamcial activities. |
financial statements | Financial reports that summarize the financial condition and operations of a business. |
service business | A business that performs an activity for a fee. |
proprietorship | A business owned by one person. |
asset | Anything of value that is owned. |
equities | Financial rights to the assets of a business |
owner's equity | The amount remaining after the value of all liabilities is subtracted from the value of assets. |
accounting equation | An equation showing the relationship among asset, liabilities, and owner's equity. |
ethics | The principles of right and wrong the guide an individual in making decisions. |
business ethics | The use of ethics in making business decisions. |
transactions | A business activity that changes assets, liabilities, or owner's equity. |
account | A record summarizing all the information pertaining to a single item in the accountin equation. |
account title | The name given to an account. |
acccount balance | The amount in an account. |
capital | The account used to summarize the owner's equity ina business. |
revenue | An increase in owner's equity resulting from the operation of a business. |
sale on account | A sale for which cash will be recived at a later date. |
expense | A decrease in owner's equity resulting from the operation of a business. |
withdrawals | Assets taken out of a business for the owner's personal use. |