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Accounting chapter 1 terms

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Accounting   System that identifies success and failures.  
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Bookkeeping   Recording Transactions and events manually or electronically.  
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Financial Accounting(Public accounting)   Highest level is CPA(Certified public accountant)  
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Managerial accounting   Serves as the decision  
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Ethics   Beliefs that distinguish right from wrong.  
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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles(GAAP)   Rules that govern how accountants measure process, and communicate financial info.  
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Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)   A private sector group that sets both broad and specific principles.  
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Entity Concept   Keep track of the business separate than the owners.  
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Reliability Principle(Objectivity)   Account for transactions and events using measurable data.  
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Cost Principle   Actual historical amount cost is measurable.  
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Going Concern Concept   In operation for foreseeable future.  
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Stable/Monetary   unity concept (Stable $) Assume purchasing power is relatively stable.  
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Realization Principle (Revenue Recognition)   Record revenue as u earn it, not when cash comes in. Record expenses as the benefit is used up, not when the cash is paid.  
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Proprietorship   A single owner  
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Partnership   A business owned by 2 or more people.  
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Mutually Agency   1 partner can in debit all of the debt.  
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Corporation   owned by stockholders  
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Assets   Things that have future value that a company owns or controls.  
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Accounts Recievalbe   The right to recieve money in the future b/c of something thats already been done.  
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Liabilities   The obligation to do something or pay somebody in the future for something already recieved.  
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Accounts payable   Obligation to pay someone in the future.  
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Accounting Equation   Assets= Liabilities+ Equity  
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Unearned Revenue   Obligation to do something.  
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Audit   Examines whether financial statements are prepared using GAAP. It does not attest to absolute accuracy of the statements.  
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Auditiors   Verify effectiveness of internal controls.  
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Balance Sheet   describes a companys financital postion types, and amounts of assets, liablities and equity at a point in time.  
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Business Equity Assumption   A buesiness is accounted for separately from other business entities including its owner.  
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Common Stock (Capital Stock)   When a corporation issues only one class of stock.  
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Conceptual framework and covergence   guide toward standard setting consist of: Objectives,Qualitative Characteristics, Elements,Recognition and measurement  
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Objectives   Provide infor useful to investors, creditors and others  
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Equity   The owner's claim on assets  
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Events   Happenings that affect the accounting equation and are reliable measured.  
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Expanded Accounting Equation   Assets=Liabilities + Owner capital,subt Owner withdrawals, +Revenues subt Expenses  
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Expense recognition principle ( Matching principle)   A company record the expenses it incurred to generate the revenue reported.  
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Expenses   Cost necessary to earn revenues (Ex: cost of staffing, advertising, insurance services, use of supplies and utilites).  
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External transactions   Exchange of value between to entities, which yeild changes in the accounting equation. (Ex: Sale of Ad space by facebook).  
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Internal transactions   Exchanges w/in an entity, which may or may not affect the accounting equation. (Ex: facebook use of suppiles  
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External users   Shareholders(investors), lenders, directors, customers supplies, regulators, lawyers, brokers, and the press. Users of accounting info not directly involved wit the running organization.  
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Full disclosure principle   A company reports the details behind financial statements that would impact user decisions.  
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Income Statement   Describes a company's Revenues, & Expenses along with the resulting Net income or loss over a period of time due to earning activities.  
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Internal users   Those directly involved in managing & operating an organization.  
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International Accounting Standards   An independent group (consisting of individuals from many countries), issues International Financial Reporting Standards.  
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International Financial Reporting Standards   Identify perferred accounting practices.  
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Material Constraints   Only information that would influence the decsions of a reasonable person need to be disclosed.  
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Measurement/Cost principle   Accounting info is based on actual cost.  
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Monetary unit assumption   We can express transactons & events in monetary, or money/units.  
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Net Income   When revenues exceeds expenses.  
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Net loss   Occurs when expenses exceed revenues which decreases equity.  
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Owner Capital   Owner investments.  
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Owner investments   Assets an owner puts into the company & are included under the general account Owner Capital.  
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Owner Withdrawls   Assets an owner takes from the company for personal use.  
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Partnership   A business owned by 2 or more people.  
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Proprietorship   A business owned by one person.  
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Recordkeeping   The recording of transactions & events, either manually or electronical.  
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Return   Monies recieved from an investment; often in percent forms.  
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Return on total assets   Ratio reflecting operating effiency, defined as net income divided by average total assets for the period.  
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Return recognition principle   Prescribing that revenue is recognized when earned.  
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Revenues   Gross increase in equity from a company's business activities that earn income also called sales.  
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Risk   Uncertainity about an expected return.  
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Sarbanes Oxley Act(SOX)   Created public company accounting oversight board, regulates analyst conflicts, imposes corporate goverance requirements, enhances accounting & control disclosures, impacts insider transactions & executive loans, establishes new types of criminal conduct.  
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Securities & exchange   Federal agency congress has charged to set reporting rules for organization that sell ownerships shares to the public.  
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Shareholders   Owners of a corporation.  
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Shares   Equity of a corporation divided into ownership units.  
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Sole Propretorship   Business owned by 1 person.  
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Statement of Cash flows   A financial statement that lists cash in flows recipts & cash outlaws during a period arranged by operating , investing & financing.  
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Statement of Owner's equity   Report of changes in equity over a period. Adjusted for increases (owner investment & net income) & for decreases, withdrawls, and net loss.  
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Time period Assumption   Assumption that an organizations activitie can be divided into specific time periods such as months, quarters or years.  
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Withdrawls   Payment of cash or other assets from a proprietorship or partnership to its owner or owners.  
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Objectives   Provide info useful to investors, creditors and others.  
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