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Vocab chapter 1
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Accounting
12th Grade
09/11/2012

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accounting
Definition
planning, recording, analyzing and interpreting financial info
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accounting system
Definition
planned process for providing financial info that will be useful to management
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accounting records
Definition
organized summaries of a buisness's financial activities
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service buisness
Definition
buisness's that perform an activity for a fee
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proprietorship
Definition
buisness 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 assests of a buisness
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liability
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an amount owned by a buisness
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owners equity
Definition
amount remaning after the value of all liabilities is subtracted from the value of all assets
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accounting equation
Definition
an equation showing the relationship among assets, liabilities and owners equity
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transaction
Definition
a buisness activity that changes assets, liabilites or owners equity
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capital
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the account used to summarize the owners equity in a buisness
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account
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a record summarizing all the info pertaining to a single item in the accounting equation
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balance sheet
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a financial statement that reports assets, liabilities and owners equity on a specific date
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