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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
Accounting 211
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Accounting
Undergraduate 2
06/24/2011

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Term
Business Entity
Definition
Every buisness must be accounted for separately and distinctively from its owner.
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Objectivity
Definition
Information in financial statements must be supported by evidence other than someone's imagination or opinion.
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Cost
Definition
Financial Statements should present information based on costs incurred in a transaction.
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Going-Concern
Definition
Prepare financial statements under the assumption that the business will continue operating instead of being put up for sale or closed.
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Monetary Unit
Definition
The expression of transactions and events is in money units.
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Revenue Recognition
Definition
Revenue should be reported when it is earned and not before, the inflow of assets associated with revenue does not have to be in the form of cash, amound of revenue should be measured as the cash recieved plus the cash equivalent of any noncash assets recieved in exchange for goods or services.
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Time Period
Definition
Assumes that a business's activities can be divided into specific time periods such as motnhs, quarters or years.
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Matching
Definition
Expenses must be reported in the same accounting period as the revenues that were earned as a result of the expense.
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Consistency
Definition
A company m ust use the same accounting methods period after period so that financial statements of succeeding periods are comparable.
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Conservatism
Definition
Select the less optimistic estimate when two estimates of amounts to be received or paid are about equally likely.
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Materiality
Definition
An accounting principle can be ignored if the effect on the financial statements is unimportant to their users.
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Full-disclosure
Definition
Financial statements including footnotes must contain all the relevant information about the operations and financial position of the entity, it must be presented in an understandable manner.
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