Vocabulary
Business Entities
Debit/Credit
Normal Balance
Definitions
100

____ is the financial record keeping system in which each business transaction affects at least 2 accounts.

What is Double-entry accounting?

100

Only has one owner.

What a sole proprietorship? 

100

The ____ side is the side in which a credit placed on the T-account for assets.

What is the Right?

100

The Normal Balance is always on the ___ ___ of the T-account.

What is increase side?

100

Primary purpose of accounting is to ____ business activities and ____ those _____ to external users to make decisions.

What is measure, communicate and measurements? 

200

The _____ is a list of all the accounts a business uses.

What is chart of accounts?

200

Owned by two or more individuals.

What is a partnership?

200

The increase side of an asset is a ____?

What is Debit?

200

Debit is the _____ side in an asset.

What is increase?

200

To record revenue in the period in which the business provides the goods or services?

What is the revenue recognition principle?

300

Transactions that primarily involve the purchase and sale of long term assets.

What are investing activities?

300

The most advantageous reason to incorporate a business. 

What is limited liability? 

300

A liability increases with a ___ and decreases with a ____.

What is credit and debit?

300

Accounts payable normal balance is on the ____ side.

What is right/credit?

300

The day to day activities of a business.

What are operating activities?

400

Trained individuals hired by a company as an independent third party to express a professional opinion of the conformity of that company's financial statements with GAAP.

Who are auditors?

400

A separate legal entity from it's owners.

What is a corporation?

400

The normal balance is always the ____ side.

What is Increase?

400

Accounts Receivable normal balance is on the ____ side

What is debit/left?

400

Transactions that primarily involve external sources of funding a business.

What are financing activities ? 

500

Receiving cash from customers before providing any goods or services.

What are deferred revenues?

500

The assumption that a business will continue to operate indefinitely. 

What is Going Concern?

500

In Owner's Equity, ____ is the increase side.

What is credit?

500

The Normal Balance for Office Equipment is on the __ side.

What is debit/left?

500

Disadvantage of a corporation in which the company's earnings are taxed multiple times.

What is double taxation?

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