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Accounting Ch3 & Ch4

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Account   An individual accounting record of increases and decreases in specific asset, liability, stockholders' equity, revenue or expense items  
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Accounting Information System   the system of collecting and processing transaction data and communicating financial information to decision makers  
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Accounting Transactions   events that require recording in the financial statements because they affect asset, liabilities, or stockholders' equity  
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Chart of Accounts   a list of a company's accounts  
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Credit   the right side of an account  
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Debit   the left side of an account  
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Double-entry System   a system that records the two-side effect of each transaction inappropriate accounts  
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General Journal   the most basic form of journal  
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General Ledger   a ledger that contains all asset, liability, stockholders' equity, revenue, and expense accounts  
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Journal   an accounting record in which transactions are initially recorded in chronological order  
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Journalizing   the procedure of entering transaction data in the journal  
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Ledger   the group of accounts maintained by a company  
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Posting   the procedure of transferring journal entry amounts to the ledger accounts  
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T account   the basic form of an account  
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trial balance   a list of accounts and their balances at a given time  
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