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Accounts Test
Accounts test flash cards
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Accounting
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10/06/2005

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Accounting deals with:
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Recording Data, classifying and summarizing data, Communicating the data
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What is recording data? Businesses will keep records of all the money received and spent on things such as-
Definition
sales, assets, purchases, rent, wages etc.
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Classifying and summarizing data? Why is it important to classify and summarize data?
Definition
so you can calculate how much profit or loss has been made.
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what should Communicating the data do?
Definition
should be able to tell the business if it is performing well.
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What should happen to the communicated data?
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this info should be communicated to the managers and owners, they will then use this info to make the business more efficient.
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Name all the users of the accounts.
Definition
Managers, employees, customer, supplier, bank, government/tax inspectors, prospective investors, owners and shareholders.
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Resources in the business=
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resources supplied by the owner.
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Accounting Terminology=
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assets = capital+liabilities
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Capital=
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assets- liabilitie
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Liabilities =
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assets- capital
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what are assets? examples
Definition
items the business owns. examples, property of any kind, buildings premises, land, motor vehicles, machinery, equipment, fixtures and fittings, stock, money @ the bank, cashers, debtors
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what are debtors?
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in the assets collumn, money owed to us by customers.
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what are liabilities? examples
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items that the business owes or is in debt for. eg. Loans from the bank and individuals, creditors and mortgage.
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what are creditors?
Definition
money we owe to supply us.
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what is the capital?
Definition
this is the money the owner has invested into the business.
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