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Accounting
21century
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Accounting
12th Grade
09/11/2008

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Term
accounting
Definition
planning, recording, analyzing, and interpreting financial information.
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accounting system
Definition
a planned process for providing financial information that will be useful to management is called accounting system
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accounting records
Definition
organized summaries of a business's financial activities are called...
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service business
Definition
a business that performs an activity for a fee is called a service business
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proprietorship
Definition
a business owned by one person
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asset
Definition
anything of value 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 all assets
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accounting equation
Definition
assets = liabilities + owner's equity
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transaction
Definition
a business activity that changes 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. the capital account is an owner's equity account.
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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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