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Accounting Chapter 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 | A type of accounting system in which information is recorded by entering it into a computer. |
| accounting system | A system designed to collect, document, and report on business transactions. |
| 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 | Documents that present summarized information about the financial status of a business. |
| going concern | The accounting assumption that a business is expected to operate indefinitely. |
| management | The type of accounting that focuses on reporting information to management; often referred to as accounting for internal users of accounting information. |
| accounting | Activities performed in an accounting period that help the business keep its records in an orderly fashion. |
| manual accounting | A type of accounting system in which information is processed by hand. |
| system | a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network. |
| manufacturing | A business that buys raw materials and transforms them into finished products by using labor and machinery. |
| business | a person's regular occupation, profession, or trade. |
| merchandising | 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. |