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| 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 |
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| The system of collecting and processing transaction data and communicating financial information to interested parties |
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| A list of a company's accounts |
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| The right side of the account |
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| The left side of the account |
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| A system that records the dual effect of each transaction in appropriate accounts |
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| The most basic form of journal |
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| A ledger that contains all asset, liability, stockholders' equity, revenue, and expense accounts |
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| An accounting record in which transactions are initially recorded in chronological order |
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| The procedure of entering transaction data in the journal |
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| The group of accounts maintained by a company |
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| The procedure of transferring journal entry amounts to the ledger accounts |
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| The basic form of an account |
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| A list of accounts and their balances at a given time. |
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