Financial Statements
Business Ownership
The Accounting Cycle
Debit or Credit?
Profit & Loss
100

This statement shows a company’s assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity.

Balance sheet

100

A business owned by one person.

Proprietorship

100

A record of a business transaction. 

Source Document

100

his side of a T-account increases assets.

Debit

100

Money earned from sales

Revenue

200

This report shows revenues and expenses over a period of time.

Income statement

200

A business owned by two or more people.

Partnership

200

Transferring information from a journal entry to a ledger account.

Posting

200

This side of a T-account increases liabilities.

Credit

200

Money spent on operating a business.

Expense

300

This statement shows inflows and outflows of cash.

Cash flow statement

300

A business owned by stockholders.

Corporation

300

An entry that records a business transaction in the journal. 

Journal Entry

300

The tool shaped like a “T” that accountants use to analyze transactions. 

T-Account

300

The amount left after subtracting expenses from revenue when positive.

Profit

400

Another name for an income statement, often used in business.

Operating statement

400

The value of an owner’s claim to the business after liabilities are subtracted.

Owner's equity

400

A list of all accounts and their balances at a particular date.

Trial balance

400

This increases revenue.

Credit

400

When expenses are greater than revenue.

Loss

500

A spreadsheet used to organize trial balances before financial statements.

Worksheet

500

A period of time covered by an accounting report.

Accounting period

500

The process of analyzing, recording, summarizing, and reporting financial information. 

Accounting Cycle

500

This decreases owner’s equity when an owner takes money out.

Withdrawal (debit)

500

The basic equation showing the relationship among assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity.

Accounting Equation

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