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Acounting 1 ch 1
chapter 1
Term | Definition |
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Accounting | The process of planning, recording analyzing and interpreting financial information. |
Accounting system | A planned process designed to compile financial data and summarize the results in accounting records and reports. |
financial statements | Financial reports that summarize the financial condition and operations of a business. |
net worth statement | A formal report that shows what an individual owns, what an individual owes, and the difference between the two. |
asset | Anything of value that is owned |
liability | An amount owed |
personal net worth | The difference between personal assets and personal liabilities |
equity | The difference between assets and liability |
ethics | The principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making decisions |
business ethics | The use of ethics in making business decisions |
service business | A business that performs an activity for a fee |
proprietorship | A business owned by one person |
business plan | A formal written document that describes the nature of a business and how it will operate |
GAAP | Generally accepted accounting principals. The standards and rules that accountants follow while recording and reporting |
equities | Financial rights to to the assets of a business |
owners equity | The amount remaining after the value of all liabilities is subtracted from the value of all assests |
accounting equation | Equation showing relationships about assets, liabilities, and owners equity |
equities | Financials rights to the assets and liabilities |
owners equity | |
accounting equation | An equation showing the relationship among among assets, liabilities and owners equity |
transaction | Any business activity that changes assets, liabilities and owners equity. |
account | A record that summarizes all the transactions pertaining to the ccounting equation |
account title | The name given to an account |
account balance | Difference between increases and decreases. |
capital amount | Account used to summarize the owners equity in a business. |
creditor | A person or a business to whom a liability is owed. |
revenue | An increase in equality resulting from the sale of goods or services. |
sale on account | A sale for which payments will be received at a later date. |
expense | The cost of good or services used to operate a business |
withdrawals | assets taken from the business for the owners personal use. |