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Accounting terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accounting | process of tracking financial activities and summarizing them. |
| Accounting Cycle | begins with the collection of financial data and ends with reports |
| Journal entries | chronological record of financial activity stored in a book or original entry called general ledger |
| General Ledger | what accounts are stored in (assets, liabilities, equity, revenue and expenses) |
| Posting | the process of copying data from the general journal to each general ledger account |
| Why are adjusting journal entries at the end of a cycle? | Because some expenses have been estimated, and need to be corrected (taxes), while others are more efficiently recorded at the end of the cycle (depriciation) |
| Prepaid Advertisements is what | Assets |
| Unearned Revenue | Liability |
| Prepaid Insurance | Assets |