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Advanced Accounting
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Accounting
11th Grade
09/16/2014

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Term
Business Entity Concept
Definition
The concept that requires an accounting system to reflect only information about economic events that pertain to a perticular entity.
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Cash Basis Accounting
Definition
a system in which income is measured as the difference between the cash recieved from customers and the cash paid to employees and other suppliers of goods and services.
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Corporation
Definition
A business entity that is legally separate and distinct from its owners
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Debt to Equity
Definition
A measure of company solvency and its ability to meet its long term needs
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Going Concern Concept
Definition
The concept that assume that absent any information to the contrary, the business entity will continue into the foreseeable future
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Monetary unit Concept
Definition
The concept that asserts money is the common measurement unit of economic activity
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Income Statement
Definition
The financial statement designed to show the net income of the company for a period of time
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Limited Partnership
Definition
A partnership composed of one or more general partners and one or more limited partners; only the general partners' personal possessions are at the risk if the business should fail
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Manufacturing Firm
Definition
A business organized to convert raw materials into finished goods
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Partnership
Definition
A business owned by two or more individuals whose personal possessions are at risk if the business fails
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Periodicity Concept
Definition
the concept that requires that the success or failure of the business be determined at regular intervals
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S Corporation
Definition
A small business corporation owned by no more than 75 individuals; its profits are taxed at the individual level rather than the corporate level
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Production and operation functions
Definition
The function that is responsible for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling the operations of the business
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Service firm
Definition
A business that exits to provide services such as loaning money, finding investors, and other services for which it charges fees
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Sole Partnership
Definition
A business owned by one person whose personal possessions are at risk if the business fails
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Statement of cash flows
Definition
The financial statement designed to show the cash inflows and cash outflows for the period of covered by the income statement
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Statement of owner's equity
Definition
The financial statement designed to show the changes that occurred in owner's equity during the period of time covered by the income statemnt
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