Foundations of Accounting
Key Terms
Recording Entries
Rules of Entries
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100

The 2 ways to express the Accounting Equation.

Assets = Liabilities + Equity

Assets - Liabilities = Equity

100

A form for recording transactions in chronological order

Journal

100

Buying Supplies with Cash.

What do you Debit and what do you Credit? 

Debit Supplies. Credit Cash.

100

what must you do to the account title on the 2nd line of an entry?

indent 1 cm

200

What tool can you use to help record an entry in the General Journal?

Draw T-Accounts

200

Recording transactions in a journal

Journalizing

200

Sold Services on Account.

What is debited and what is credited?

Credit Sales. Debit Accounts Receivable.

200

What column do you record the Source Document?

Doc. No.

300

A business paper from which information is obtained for a journal entry

Source Document

300

The source document for daily sales

Calculator Tape

300

What must you include after the Account Title "Accounts Payable" and "Accounts Receivable"?

The specific vendor they are buying/selling 

400

Information for each transaction recorded in a journal

Entry

400

What is the title of your favorite Accounting song?

100 point bonus to sing/dance in front of the class.

The Debit Credit Theory

500

The 4 questions you must ask in order to record entries:

1. what are the 2 accounts affected?

2. how is each account classified?

3. how is each account affected?

4. how do you enter the debit/credit parts into the t-accounts

500

The recording of debit and credit parts of a transaction

Double-Entry Accounting

500

When is Mr. Miller's Birthday?

Halloween

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