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ACCT Ch 1 & 2
Introduction to Financial accounting and balance sheet
Question | Answer |
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Dividends | Receive a portion of the company's earnings in cash |
Auditing | conduct an official financial examination |
four basic financial statements | STATEMENT OF CASH FLOW : shows how cash entered and exited a company BALANCE SHEET: assets, liabilities, and shareholder quity INCOME STATEMENT: financial report company's income and expenses STATEMENT OF SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY: balance sheet over time |
Balance sheet equation | assets=liabilities +shareholders' equity |
Assets | cash, account receivable, inventory, property, land |
Liabilites | account payable, notes payable |
Shareholders' equity | Common stock, retained earrings |
revenues | sales revenues |
expenses | cost of goods sold, selling, general, and administrative expenses, interest expense, income tax expense |
net income equation | net income= revenues- expenses |
retained earnings | beginning retained earnings, net income, dividends, ending retained earnings |
statement of shareholders' equity equation | beginning retained earnings + net income- dividends= ending retained earnings |
Balance sheet- key ration analysis | current ration = current assets/current liabilities |
current ratio | current assets to current liabilities |
transaction analysis equation | assets= liabilities +stockholder ' equity |
T- account | debit (dr)=left credit (cr)= right |
For assets debit increases and | credit decreases |
for liabilities debit decreases and | credit increase |
for equities debit decrease and | credit increase |
journal entries | formal way to record results |
each T account has | the account title; a beginning balance; the debits and credits; and the ending balance. |