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2.2
Accounting
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accounting system | Designed to collect, documented, and report on financial transactions affecting business |
| manual accounting system | Processed by hand |
| Computerized accounting system | The financial information is recorded by entering it into a computer |
| GAAP | generally accepted accounting principles, rule report |
| Financial reports | summarized information about the financial status of a business |
| Financial accounting | Focuses on reporting information to external users |
| Management accounting | Which focuses on reporting information to management |
| Business entity | exsists independently of its owners personal holdings |
| Accounting period | is a period of time covered by an accounting report |
| going concern | A business that assumed to keep going |