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Accounting
12th Grade
10/12/2006

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Term
Accounting
Definition
Planning, recording, analying, and interpreting financial information.
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Accounting System
Definition
A planned process for providing financial information that will be useful to management.
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Accounting Records
Definition
Organized summaries of a business's financial activities.
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Service Business
Definition
A business that performs an activity for fee.
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Proprietorship
Definition
A business owned by one person.
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Asset
Definition
Anything of vlue that is owned.
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Equities
Definition
Financial rights to the assets of a business.
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Liability
Definition
An amount owed by a business.
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Owner's Equity
Definition
The amount remaining after the value of all liabilities is subtracted from the value of assets.
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Accounting Equation
Definition
An equation showing the relationship among assets, liabilities, and owner's equity.
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Transaction
Definition
A business activity that change assets, liabilities, or owner's equity.
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Account
Definition
A record summarizing all the information pertaining to a single item in the accounting equation.
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Account Title
Definition
The name given to an account.
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Account Balance
Definition
The amount in an account.
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Capital
Definition
The account used to summarize the owner's equity in a business.
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Balance Sheet
Definition
A financial statement that reports assets, liabilities, and owner's equity on a specific date.
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Revenue
Definition
An increase in owner's equity resulting from the operation of a business.
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Sale On Account
Definition
A sale for which cash will be received at a later date.
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Expense
Definition
A decrease in owner's equity resulting from the operation of a business.
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Withdrawals
Definition
Assets taken out of a business for the owner's personal use.
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T account
Definition
An accounting device used to analyze transactions.
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Debit
Definition
An amount recorded on the left side.
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Credit
Definition
An amount recorded on the right side.
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Charts of accounts
Definition
A list of accounts used by a business.
Term
Journal
Definition
A form for recording transactions in chronological order.
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Journalizing
Definition
Recording transactions in a journal.
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Special amount column
Definition
A journal amount column that is not headed with an account title.
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General amount column
Definition
A journal amount column that is not headed with an account title.
Term
Entry
Definition
Information for each transaction recorded in a journal.
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Double-entry accounting
Definition
The recording of debit and credit parts of a transaction.
Term
Source document
Definition
A business paper from which information is obtained for a journal entry.
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Invoice
Definition
A form describing the goods or services sold, the quantity, and the price.
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Sales Invoice
Definition
An invoice used as a source document for recording a sale on account.
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Receipt
Definition
A busuness from giving written acknowledgement for cash received.
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Memorandum
Definition
A form on which a brief message is written describing a transaction.
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Proving cash
Definition
Determining that the amount of cash agrees with the accounting records.
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Ledger
Definition
A group of accounts.
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General ledger
Definition
A ledger that contains all accounts needed to prepare financial statements.
Term
Account number
Definition
The number assigned to an account.
Term
File Maintenance
Definition
The procedure for arranging account numbers, and keeping records current.
Term
Opening an account
Definition
Writing an account title and nmber on the heading of an account.
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Posting
Definition
Tranferring information from a journal entry to ledger account.
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Correcting entry
Definition
A journal entry made to correct an error in the ledger.
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Normal balance
Definition
The side of the account that is increased.
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Check
Definition
A business form ordering a bank to pay cash from a bank account.
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