Vocabulary
Chart of Accounts
Debit or Credit?
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Posting Problems
100

Assets = Liabilities + Equity 

What is the Accounting Equation?

100

There is this number of general ledger divisions 

What is 5?

100

When debits in an account exceed credits, the account is balance is a ___

What is debit? 

100

This is the process of transferring data from the journal to the ledger

What is posting?

100

This is the first step when making a journal entry

What is the date?

200

A list of account titles and numbers showing the location of each account in a ledger 

What is chart of accounts?

200

This is a permanent account

What is accounts payable/receivable? 
200

Entry made on the right side of the account 

What is a credit?

200

Any business activity that changes assets, liabilities or owner's equity 

What are transactions? 
200

When you journal an incorrect entry, this is the first step

What is draw a line through the entire entry?

300

This is a temporary account that decreases owner's equity

What is withdrawals?

300

J. Smith withdrawing $3,000 results in a credit to this account 

What is withdrawals? 

300

Entry made on the left side of the account 

What is a debit? 

300

The process of planning, recording, analyzing, and interpreting financial information

Accounting 

300

This is the last step in posting 

What is writing the account number in the Post. Ref.? 

400

Accounts used by a business can be kept on pages or cards which are kept together in a book or file are called this

What is a ledger?

400

This is a temporary account 

What is sales? 

400

An increase in assets

What is debit? 

400

Financial rights to the assets of a business 

What are equities?

400

If an account error is found this is prepared as the source document describing the correction to be made

What is a memorandum? 

500

This is an example of a source document 

What is a receipt?

What is a check?

What is a memo? 

What are sales invoices? 

What are calculator tapes? 


500

Cash would be found in this chart of accounts division 

What is 1. assets? 

500

When revenues are involved the account is 

What is credited? 

500

Financial reports that summarize the results in accounting records an reports 

What are financial statements?

500

A check mark is written in the Post Ref when this happens 

What is no amounts are individually posted? 

What is sales? 

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