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Accounting
Chapter 1 Facts
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Business
10th Grade
09/07/2006

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What is the accounting equation most often stated as?
Definition
Assets = Liabilities + Owner's Equity
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What is accounting?
Definition
Planning, recording, analyzing, and interpreting financial information.
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What is an accounting system?
Definition
A planned process for providing financial information that will be useful to management.
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What are accounting records?
Definition
Organized summaries of a business's financial activities.
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What often contributes to business failures or bankruptcy?
Definition
Inaccurate accounting records.
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What is a service business?
Definition
A business that performs a job actively for a fee.
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What is a proprietorship?
Definition
A business owned by one person.
Term
What does Encore Music do?
Definition
They rent office space and instruments used to teach music lessons.
Term
What is an asset?
Definition
Anything of value that is owned?
Term
What are some examples of some assets?
Definition
Cash of supplies?
Term
What are equities?
Definition
Financial rights to the assets of a business.
Term
What is liability?
Definition
An amount owned by a business.
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What is owner's equity?
Definition
The amount remaining after the value of all assets.
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Draw the the accounting equation model.
Definition
Assets = Liabilities + Owner's Equity
Left side amount Right side amount
$0 $0
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What is a transaction?
Definition
A business activity that changes assets, liabilities, or owner's equity.
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What is an account?
Definition
A record summarizing all the information pertaining to a single item.
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What is an account title?
Definition
The name given to an account.
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What is an account balance?
Definition
The amount in an account.
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What is a Cash account?
Definition
Is used to summarize info. About the amount of money the business has available. The amount in an account.
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What is a capital?
Definition
Account used to summarize the owner's equity in a business.
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What is a balance sheet?
Definition
A financial statement that reports assets, liabilities, and owner's equity on a specific date.
Term
What are the three major sections of a balance sheet?
Definition
1.] Assets are on the left side of the accounting equation.
2.] Liabilities are on the right side of the accounting equation.
3.] Owner's equity is also on the right side of the accounting equation.
Term
What is an Unit of Measurment?
Definition
Applied when business transactions are recorded is cedis.
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Whats a business entity?
Definition
its applied when a business's financial information is recorded and recorded separately from someone's personal info.
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What is the accounting concept going conern?
Definition
Is applied when financial statements are prepared with the expectation that a business will remain in operation indefinitely.
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