A, L, & OE
History of Accounting
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Vocabulary
Caldwell's Accounting Program
100

These are items owned that have a monetary value. 

 What are assets?

100

The first civilization that references accounting.

What is Mesopotamia?

100

The practice of recording, storing, retrieving, keeping, and analyzing the financial records of a company.

What is bookkeeping?

100

Used to record a business transaction in the accounting records of a business.

What is a journal entry?

100

Department Chair for Business

Who is Professor Rich?

200

A company's total assets are equal to the sum of its liabilities and its shareholders' equity.

What is the accounting equation?

200

The holiday that accountants celebrate.

What is Tax Day? 

200

The on-site verification activity, such as inspection or examination, of a process or quality system, to ensure compliance to requirements.

What is auditing?


200

An account or record used to store bookkeeping entries for balance-sheet and income-statement transactions. (Hint: After the journal entry) 

What is a ledger?


200

Allows you to take 2 graduate courses for an undergraduate price, and you can get your MBA 

What is the 5-year program?

300

Any debts your company has

What are liabilities?

300

Father of Modern Accounting 

Who is Luca Pacioli?

300

The subsector of accounting that deals with the preparations of tax returns and tax payments.

What is a tax accountant?

300

How individuals file a federal income tax return with the IRS

What is a 1040?


300

Best Advisor and Best Accounting Teacher (Hint: She supervises the Accounting Club

Who is Professor Callahan?

400

This is the difference between total assets and total liabilities.  

 What is Owner's Equity?

400

First accounting software founded in 1981

What is Peachtree?

400

Investigates incidents of fraud, bribery, money laundering and embezzlement by analyzing financial records and transactions, tracing assets, and more

What is forensic accounting?


400

Tax form for U.S. Income Tax Return for Estates and Trusts

What is a 1041?

400

Name two adjunct Accounting Professors

Who is

* Saint Fort 

* Dunlow 

* Mahoney 

500

The term used to explain how quickly a company can convert assets into cash.  

 What is liquidity?

500

The dog breed invented to protect tax collectors

What is the Doberman?

500

Top financial position in an organization. They are responsible for tracking cash flow and financial planning and analyzing the company's financial strengths and weaknesses and proposing strategic directions.

What is a CFO?

500

 The form that an employer summaries the total wages and income tax withholdings

What is a W-2?

500

CPA review course offered to Caldwell Students for a discount

Becker CPA Review 

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