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Accounting Review

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Data about cash flows from financing activities   Financial Statements  
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Descriptions of the company's significant accounting policies   Notes to the financial statement  
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Management's analysis of Changes in income from operations for the current year versus the prior year   Management's discussion and analysis  
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Saless and net income for the current and two prior years   Financial Statements  
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Detailed information about the company's long-term liabilities, such ass years due and interest rates   Notes to the financial statement  
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A statement about whether or not the statements are presented fairly in accordance wih generally accepted accounting principles   Auditors reports  
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The proces of identifying, recording, and communicating the economic events of a business to interested users of the information   Accounting  
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Debts and obligations of a business   Liabilities  
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Resources owned by a business   Assets  
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The amount by which revenues exceed expenses   Net Income  
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A business organized as a seperate legal entity having ownership divided into transferable shares of stock   Corporation  
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The amount of net income kept in the corporation for future use, not distributed to stockholders as dividends   Retained Earnings  
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Assets=Liabilities + Stockholders' Equity   Accounting equation  
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Distributions of cash or other assets from an incorporated business to its shareholders   Dividends  
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The cost of assets consumed or services used in the process of ongoing operations to generate revenues   Expenses  
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A financial statement that reports the financial postion of a business at a specific date   Balance Sheet  
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This is not a characteristic of sole proprietorsip   It's a seperate legal entity  
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This is not a characteristic of a corportation   Owners have unlimited liability  
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Corporations may issue several classes of stock, but the stock representing the primary ownership interest is   Common stock  
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Resources owned by a buisness and used in carrying out its operating activities are   Assets  
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Acquiring long-term assets necessary to operate e business is called a(n)   Investing activity  
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Debt securities sold to investors and due to be repaid at a particular date some years in the future are called   Bonds Payable  
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The term used to discribe the total assets that Starbucks receives in exchange for its coffee is   Revenue  
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The financial statement which presents a picture at a point in time of what a business owns and owes is a(n)   Balance Sheet  
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Net Income shown on the income statement is added to the beginning balance of retained earnings in the   Retained earnings statement  
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To report the success or failure fo the company's operations during the period is the purpose of the   Income statement  
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The Group of accountss maintained by a company   Ledger  
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A list of a company's accounts   Chart of accounts  
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Events that require recording in the financial statements because they affect assets, liabilities, or stockholders' equity   Accounting Transactions  
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An accounting record in which transactions are initially recorded in chronological order   Journal  
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An individual accounting record of increases and decreases in a specific asset, liability or stockholders' equity item   Account  
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A system that records the dual effect of each transaction in appopriate accounts   Double-Entry System  
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The procedure of transferring journal entries to the ledger accounts   Posting  
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The left side of an account   Debit  
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A list of accounts and their balances at a given time   Trial balance  
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The process of identifying the specific effects of economic events on the accounting equation is referred to as   Transaction Analysis  
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When cash is recieved before services have been preformed which accounts are increased   Cash & Unearned service revenue  
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Dividends are   Decreases on the retained earnings statement  
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Items such as a sales slip, a check, a bill, or a cash registertape are examples of   source documents  
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The process of entering transaction data into the journal is called   Journalizing  
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This is not in the general journal   The determination of net income  
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The basic steps in the recording process are   Analyze the transaction, enter the transactions in the journal, and transfer the information to the general ledger  
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This account does not have debit balances   Unearned service revenue  
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This account does not have credit balances   Dividends  
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This following mitake wil be detected by a trial balance   a devit balance is recorded as a credit balance  
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The journal entry to record the completion of a service for which payment has not been recieved is a   Debit accounts recivable and credit service revenue  
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Expenses paid in cash and recorded as assets before they are used or consumed   Prepaid Expenses  
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Entries at the end of an accounting period to transfer the balances of temporary accounts to a permanent stockholders' equity account, Retained earnings   Closing entries  
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The process of allocating the cost of a long-lived asset to epense over its useful life   Depreciation  
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Cash recieved before a compan earns revenues and recorded as a liability until earned   Unearned Service Revenue  
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The principle that delicates that expensess be matched with revenues in the period when efforts are expended to generate revenue   Expenses Recognition (Match Principle)  
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Accounting basis in which companies record, in the periods in which the events occur, transactions that change a company's financial statements, rather than in the periods in which the copany receives or pays cash   Accrual basis accounting  
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The principle that revenue be recognized in the accounting periods in which the events occur, transactions that change a company's financial statementss, rahter than in the periods in which the company receives or pays cash   Revenue recognition principle  
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Entries made at the end of an accounting period to ensure that the recenue and expense recognition principles are followed   Adjusting Entries  
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An account that is offset against an asset account on the balance sheet   Contra Asset Account  
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Expenses Incurred but not yet receibed in cash or recorded   Accrued xpenses  
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Accountants have developed two principles to use as guidelines in determining the amount of revenues and expenses to be reported in a given period. These principles are the   Revenue recognition principle, expense recgonition (matching) principle  
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In order for the revenue to be recorded in the period in which they re earned and for expenses to be recognized in the period in which they are incurred   Adjusting entries are amde  
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Unearned revenues are   Prepayments & Liabilities  
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Depreciations is   The process of allocating the cost of a long-lived asset to expense over its useful life  
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Accumulated depreciation is a   Contra Asset Account  
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Adjusting Entries for accruals   Are required in order to record revenues earned and expenses incurred in the current accounting period that have not been recognized through daily entries and thus are not yet reflected in the accounts  
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