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Accounting Chapter 2
Term | Definition |
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Accounting Period | The period of time covered by an accounting report. |
Accounting System | A system designed to collect, document, and report on business transactions. |
Business Entity | The accounting assumption that a business exists independently of its owner’s personal holdings. The accounting records and reports are maintained separately and contain financial information related only to the business. |
Charter | The legal permission, granted by a state, that gives a corporation certain rights and privileges and spells out the rules under which the corporation is to operate. |
Computerized Accounting System | A type of accounting system in which information is recorded by entering it into a computer. |
Corporation | A business organization recognized by law to have a life of its own. |
Entrepreneur | A person who transforms ideas for products or services into real-world businesses. |
Financial accounting | The type of accounting that focuses on reporting information to external users. |
Financial reports | Documents that present summarized information about the financial status of a business. |
Free enterprise system | A system in which individuals are free to produce the goods and services they choose. |
GAAP | Generally Accepted Accounting Principles |
Going concern | A business that is assumed will meet its financial obligations when they fall due. |
Management Accounting | The type of accounting that focuses on reporting information to management; often referred to as accounting for internal users of accounting information. |
Manual accounting system | A type of accounting system in which information is processed by hand. |
Manufacturing Business | A business that buys raw materials and transforms them into finished products by using labor and machinery. |
Merchandising Business | A business that buys finished goods and resells them to individuals or other businesses. |
Partnership | A business owned by two or more persons, called partners, who agree to operate the business as co-owners. |
Service business | A business that provides a needed service for a fee. |
Sole proprietorship | A business owned by one person. |