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accounting flash cards
Question | Answer |
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acoounting | planning, recording, analyzing, and interpreting finacial information |
accounting system | a planned process for providing finacial information that will be useful to management |
accounting records | organized summerize of a business finacial activities |
service business | a business that preforms an activity for a fee |
proprietorship | a business shop owed by one person |
asset | anything of value that is owned |
equities | finacial right to the assets of a business |
liabilty | an account owned by a business |
owners equity | the amount remaining after the value of all liabilites is subtracted from the value of all assets |
accounting equation | an equation showing the relationship amung assets, liabilites, and owners equity |
transaction | a business activity that changes assets, liabilites, or owners equity |
account | a record summerizing all the info pertaining to a single item in the accounting equation |
account title | name given to an account |
account balance | the ammount in the account |
capital | the account used to summerize the owners equity in a business |
balance sheet | a finacial statment that reports assets, liabilites, and owners equity on specific date |
withdrawl | assets taken out of a business for the owners personal use |
expenses | a decrease in owners equity resulting from the operation of a business |
sale on account | a sale for which cash will be recieved out o later date |
revenue | an increase in owners equity resulting from the operation of a business |
chart of account | a list accounts used by a business |
normal balance | the side of the accoun tthat is increased |
credit | an ammount recorded on the right side |
debit | an ammount recorded on the left side |
t-account | an accounting device used to analyze transaction |
proving cash | delermining that the amount of cash agrees with the accounting records |
memurandom | a form on which a f=brief message is written decribing a transaction |
receipt | a business form giving written acknowelegement for cash received |
sales invoice | an invoice used as a source document for recording a sale on account |
invoice | a form describing the goods or service sold, the amountity and the price |
check | a business form ordering a bank to pay cash from a bank account |
source document | a business paper from which information is cbtained for a journal entry |
double-entry accounting | the recording of debit and credits parts of a transaction |
general ammount colum | a journal ammount colum that is not headed with an account title |