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Chapter 3

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Term
Definition
Journal   A form for recording transactions in chronological order.  
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Journalizing   Recording transactions in a journal.  
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Check   A business form ordering a bank to pay cash from a bank account.  
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Entry   Information for each transaction recorded in a journal.  
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Invoice   A form describing the goods or services sold, the quantity, the price, and the terms of sale.  
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Double-entry accounting   The recording of debit and credit parts of a transaction.  
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Source document   A business paper from which information is obtained for a journal entry.  
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Proving cash   determining that the amount of cash equals the accounting records.  
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Sales invoice   An invoice used for as a source document for recording a sale on account.  
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Receipt   A business form giving written acknowledgement for cash received.  
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Memorandum   A form on which a brief message is written to describe a transaction.  
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FYI – Latin meaning journal   Diurnalis  
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FYI – Objective Evidence   When a source document is prepared for each transaction.  
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FYI – Timeframe on transactions   Year, month, day  
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FYI – Another name for company journal   "Book of original entry"  
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FYI – 4 parts of journal entry   Date, Debit, Credit, Source Document.  
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FYI – General Debit/Credit columns   Used for any account other than cash or sales.  
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FYI – Even dollar entry   00 added to the cents column.  
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Proving a Journal   1.Add each amount columns. 2.Add debit column totals, then credit. 3.Verify they are equal.  
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Single Rule   Under last entry to indicate that the columns are to be totaled.  
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Double Rule   indicates debits equal credits.  
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FYI – Carried Forward   All column totals brought and added.  
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FYI – Brought Forward   Last column totals brought to next page.  
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FYI – 5 steps to ruling a journal   1.Rule a single line under the last entry. 2.Next line enter date. 3.Write Carried forward. 4.Write each column total 5.double rule underneath.  
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FYI – Correcting errors   Do not erase, mark out.  
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