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Accounting Final
Question | Answer | |||||||
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Accounting | planning , recording, analyzing, and interpreting financial information | |||||||
Balance Sheet | financial statement that reports assets, liabilities, and owner's equity | permanent accounts | ||||||
Closing Entries | journal entries used to prepare temporary accounts for a new fiscal period | |||||||
Proving Cash | determines that the amount of cash agrees with the accounting record | |||||||
Income Statement | financial statement showing the revenue and expenses for a fiscal period | temporary accounts | ||||||
Adjusting Entries | journal entries recorded to update general ledger accounts at the end of a fiscal period | |||||||
Income Summary | used at the end of the fiscal period to help prepare other accounts for a new fiscal period | |||||||
Contra Account | an account that reduces a related account on a financial statement | Sales Returns & Allowances | ||||||
Payroll Register | business form used to record payroll information | |||||||
Employee Earnings Record | business form used to record details affecting payments made to an employee | |||||||
Subsidiary Ledger | ledger summarized in a single general ledge account | Accounts payable/receivable | ||||||
equities | financial rights to the assets of a business | |||||||
Debit | On the left side | |||||||
Credit | On the right side | |||||||
Assets | Debit | |||||||
Owner, Drawing | Credit | |||||||
Purchases Returns & Allowances/Discount | Credit | |||||||
Income | Credit | |||||||
Cost of Merchandise Sold | Debit | |||||||
Expense | Debit | |||||||
Sales Returns & Allowances/Discount | Debit | |||||||
Basic Accounting Equation | Assets = Liabilities + Owner's Equity | Liabilites - Owner's Equity = Assets | Owner's Equity = Assets+ Liabilities | |||||
Net Income Equation | Sales - Cost of Merchandise = Gross Profit - Expenses = net income | |||||||
What is recorded in cash receipts? | cash received | |||||||
What is recorded in cash payments? | cash paid | |||||||
Four closing entries | Sales ---> Income Summary | Expenses ---> Income Summary | Income Summary ---> Capital | Drawing ---> Capital | ||||
Nine steps in the accounting cycle | Analyze source documents | Journalize transaction information | Post journal entries | Prepare schedules of accounts payable and accounts receivable | Prepare work sheet | Prepare financial statements | journalize adjusting and closing entries | Post adjusting and closing entries Post - closing trial balance |
What account titles are used when replenishing petty cash? | cash | expenses | ||||||
What is the usual order of chart of accounts | 100 - Assets | 200 - Liablities | 300 - Owner's Equity | 400 - Revenue | 500 - Cost of Merchandise | 600 - Expenses | ||
Temporary Accounts | close at the end of fiscal period | |||||||
Permanent Accounts | there for the life of the business | |||||||
Depreciation | Decrease in assets over a period of time | |||||||
Straight line Depreciation | goes down the same amount each year | |||||||
Equation for straight line depreciation | original cost - estimated salvage value/useful life = total depreciation | |||||||
Original cost | Amount first paid for | |||||||
Estimated Salvage Value | value after useful life | |||||||
Double Declining | multiplying the book value by a constant depreciation rate | |||||||
Equation for Double Declining | 1/useful life convert to percentage * 2 | |||||||
Book Value | What its currently worth | |||||||
Lifo | Last in First Out | |||||||
Fifo | First in first out | |||||||
Weighted average | average price of units purchased | |||||||
Liabilities | Credit | |||||||
Owner, Capital | Credit | |||||||
Equation for Cost of Merchandise Sold | Beginning Inventory + Purchases = Merchandise available for sale - ending inventory | |||||||
What columns in a journal are posted individually? | General | Accounts Receivable | Accounts Payable | |||||
What columns in a journal are posted in total | Sales | Cash | Everything, but general | |||||
What is recorded in Sales? | items sold | sales on account | ||||||
What is recorded in Purchases | items bought | Purchase of merchandise on account |