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chelaye's chapter 1 fact
chapter 1.1 facts
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Accounting
10th Grade
09/06/2006

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What is accounting
Definition
recording analyzing interpreting financial data
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What is an accounting system
Definition
a planned process for providing financial data.
Term
what are accountings records
Definition
3organized summaries of business
financial activities
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What often contributes to business failures or bankruptcy
Definition
inaccurate accounting records
Term
What is service business
Definition
they rent office space and the istruments
Term
What is service business
Definition
they rent office space and the istruments
Term
5What does encore music do?
Definition
instruments used to teach music
lesson
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Assets= liabilities+ owners equity
Definition
Assets= liabilities+ owners equity
Term
what's an assets
Definition
anything of value that is owned
Term
What are some examples of an assets?
Definition
Cash and supplies
Term
What is a liability?
Definition
An amount owned by a business
Term
what are equites
Definition
Finical rights to the assets of business
Term
What is important about the accounting equation?
Definition
Equal the total of accounts on the right side.
Term
what is accounting
Definition
Accounting planning recording analyzing and interpreting data
Term
What is a balance sheet?
Definition
A financial statement that reports assets, liability
and owner equity on a specific date.
Term
What are the major sections of a balance sheet?
Definition
Assets-located on the left side of the accounting equation
Which means that assets are also listed on the right side.
Owner equity located on the right side of the balance sheet.
Liabilities in the middle.
Term
What are the steps to preparing a balance sheet?
Definition
Write the heading centered in the on the top of the page word asset
On the wide column under the heading write the owner equity account title. Prepare liability section center word liabilities on the first of the wide
Column on the under this heading put liability. Prepare the owner's equity
Section center words Owner's equity next to liability section under the section write owner equity. All assets accounts. Add the liability and owner's equity amounts if total equal balance sheet is right. A rule the single line across amount that means that the line is added or subtracted.
Rule double line that it is correct.
Term
What is transaction?
Definition
A transaction is a business activity that changes assets, liability or owner's equity.
Term
What is an account ?
Definition
an is a record summarizing all the information pertaining to a single item in the accounting equation.
Term
What is an account title?
Definition
The name given to the account.
Term
What is the cash account for?
Definition
The Cash account is used to summarized information about the amount of money the business has available. The cash account is in assets account.
Term
What is the account balance?
Definition
The amount in the account.
Term
What is capitol?
Definition
The account used to summarize the owner's equity in a business.
Term
What is business equity?
Definition
business entity- is applied when a business is record and reported separately from the owner's personal financial information.
Term
what is a unit of measurement?
Definition
unit of measurement is applied when business
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What is going concerns
Definition
Going concerns that financial stamens are prepared with the expirations that a business will remain operation indefinitely.
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