Accounting Terms
What am I?
100

A report on the revenues and expenses over a period of time

What is the Income Statement?

100

Examples are: Cash, A/R, Vehicles, or Kitchen Equipment

What is an asset?

200

The money generated from normal business operations

What is Revenue?

200

Legal obligations that a company has to others at a given point in time. Examples include Accounts Payable (A/R), Loans from a bank, or wages payable to employees.

What are Liabilities?

300

A statement of what a company has and what it owes.

What is the Balance Sheet?

300

The net worth of a company or business. Assets minus liabilities.

What is Equity?

400

This statement identifies where cash comes from and where cash goes.

What is the Statement of Cash Flows?

400
This is a summary of expenditures by account code.

What is the Journal or Journal Sheets?

500

The operational cost that is paid to earn business revenues. It means the outflow of cash in return for goods or services.

What is Expense?
500

This results when expenses are subtracted from revenue.

What is Profit or Operating Income?

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