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accounting flash cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acoounting | planning, recording, analyzing, and interpreting finacial information |
| accounting system | a planned process for providing finacial information that will be useful to management |
| accounting records | organized summerize of a business finacial activities |
| service business | a business that preforms an activity for a fee |
| proprietorship | a business shop owed by one person |
| asset | anything of value that is owned |
| equities | finacial right to the assets of a business |
| liabilty | an account owned by a business |
| owners equity | the amount remaining after the value of all liabilites is subtracted from the value of all assets |
| accounting equation | an equation showing the relationship amung assets, liabilites, and owners equity |
| transaction | a business activity that changes assets, liabilites, or owners equity |
| account | a record summerizing all the info pertaining to a single item in the accounting equation |
| account title | name given to an account |
| account balance | the ammount in the account |
| capital | the account used to summerize the owners equity in a business |
| balance sheet | a finacial statment that reports assets, liabilites, and owners equity on specific date |
| withdrawl | assets taken out of a business for the owners personal use |
| expenses | a decrease in owners equity resulting from the operation of a business |
| sale on account | a sale for which cash will be recieved out o later date |
| revenue | an increase in owners equity resulting from the operation of a business |
| chart of account | a list accounts used by a business |
| normal balance | the side of the accoun tthat is increased |
| credit | an ammount recorded on the right side |
| debit | an ammount recorded on the left side |
| t-account | an accounting device used to analyze transaction |
| proving cash | delermining that the amount of cash agrees with the accounting records |
| memurandom | a form on which a f=brief message is written decribing a transaction |
| receipt | a business form giving written acknowelegement for cash received |
| sales invoice | an invoice used as a source document for recording a sale on account |
| invoice | a form describing the goods or service sold, the amountity and the price |
| check | a business form ordering a bank to pay cash from a bank account |
| source document | a business paper from which information is cbtained for a journal entry |
| double-entry accounting | the recording of debit and credits parts of a transaction |
| general ammount colum | a journal ammount colum that is not headed with an account title |