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sole proprietorship
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Accounting
11th Grade
10/06/2006

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Term
Accountiting
Definition
Planning, recording, analyzing, and interpreting finacial information.
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Accounting system
Definition
A planned process for providing financial information that will be used 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 acitvity for a fee.
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Proprietorship
Definition
A business owned byh one person.
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Asset
Definition
Anything of vaule because they can be used to acquire other asset or be used ot operate a business.
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Equities
Definition
Finanacial 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 vaule of all assets.
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Accounting Equation
Definition
An equation showing the relationship among assets, liabilitiess, and owner's equity.
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Transaction
Definition
A business activities change the amounts in the accounting equation.
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Transaction
Definition
A business activities change the amounts in the accounting equation.
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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 charge sale.
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Expense
Definition
A decrease in owner's equity resulting form the operation of a business.
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Withdrawals
Definition
Assets taken out 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 anount on the right side.
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Normal balance
Definition
The side of the account that is increase.
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Chart of account
Definition
A list of account used by a business.
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Journal
Definition
A form for recording transaction in chronological order.
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Jouralizing
Definition
Recording transactions a journal.
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Special amount column
Definition
A journal amount column headed with an account title
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General amount column
Definition
A joural amount column that is not headed with an account title.
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Entry
Definition
Infromation 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.
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Source document
Definition
A business paper form which information is obtained for a journal.
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Check
Definition
A business form odering a bank to pay cash form a bank account.
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Invoice
Definition
A form decribing 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 business form giving written acknowlwdgement for cash received.
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Memorandum
Definition
A form on which a breif 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 perpare financial statements.
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Account number
Definition
The number assigned to an account.
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File mainteneance
Definition
The procedure for arranging accounts in a general ledger, assigning account numbers. and keeping records current.
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Opening an account
Definition
Writing an account title and number on the heading of an account.
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Posting
Definition
Tranferring information form a journal entry to a ledger account.
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Correcting records
Definition
In such a case, the incorrect journal entry should be corrected with an additional journal entry.
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Checking account
Definition
A bank account form which payments can be ordered by a depositor.
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Endorsement
Definition
A signature or stamp on the back of a check tranferring ownership.
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blank endorsement
Definition
An endorsement consisting only of the endorser's sinature.
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Special endorsement
Definition
An endorsement inidicating a new owner of a check.
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Restrictive endorsement
Definition
An endorsement restricting further tranfer of a check ownership.
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Postdated check
Definition
A check with a future date on it.
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Bank statement
Definition
A report of deposits, withdrawls, and bank balances sent to a depositors by a bank.
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Dishonored Check
Definition
A check that a bank refuses to pay.
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Electronic Transfer
Definition
A compuerized cash payments system that uses electronic inpulses to transfer funds.
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Debit card
Definition
A bank card that, when making purchases automatically deducts the amount of the purhcase from the checking account of the cardholder.
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Petty cash
Definition
An amount of cash kept on hand and used for making small payments.
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Petty cash slip
Definition
A from showing proof of a petty cash payment.
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