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Chapter 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the accounting equation? | Assets=Liabilities+Equity |
| What is cash? | A business's money. Includes banks balances, bills, coins, and checks. |
| Accounts Receivable | A customer's promise to pay in the future for services or goods sold. Often described as "On Account". |
| Notes Receivable | Written promises to pay money and interest by a certain date. Example: performing services and having to pay before a certain time period. |
| Prepaid Expense | Expenses paid in advanced |
| What are some assets | Land, building, equipment, furniture, and fixtures |
| Accounts payable | A promise made by the business to pay a debt in the future |
| Notes Payable | A written promise made by the business to pay a debt, usually involving interest, in the future. |
| Accrued Liability | An amount owed but not paid. A specific type of payable such as Taxes payable, Rent Payable, and salaries payable |
| Unearned Revenue | Occurs when a company receives cash from a customer but has not provided the product or services. The promise to provide the product or services. |
| Common stock | Reps the net contribution of the stockholders in the businesses, increases equity. |
| Dividends | Distribution of cash or other assets to the stockholders. Decreases equity. |
| Revenues | Earning that results from delivering goods or services to customers. |
| Expenses | The cost of selling goods or services. Decreases equity. Rent expense, salaries expense, and utilities expense |
| Chart of Accounts | Is used to organize a company's account. |
| Ledger | A record holding all the accounts of the business, the changes in those accounts, and their balances |
| What kind of system does accounting use to record the dual effects of transaction? | Double entry system |