Endorsements
Firm Checking Account
Vocabulary
Time Entries
Accounting
100

This is done before a check is deposited and is done in ink across the reverse left end within the space indicated

What is endorse?

100

A recorded amount on the left side of the account

What is a debit?

100

A check issued by a bank that reduces the drawers account by the amount of the check

What is a Certified Check?

100

Community work without being compensated

What is Pro Bono work?

100
The fundamental accounting equation

What is assets=liabilities + equity?

200

Simple signature of the payee, which makes the check payable to the bearer and should be cashed immediately

What is Endorsement in Blank?

200

A recorded amount on the right side of the account

What is credit?
200

Party who pays the specified sum specified by the bill of exchange

Who is Drawee?

200

A fee that is a percentage of the amount obtained in negotiation or litigation with another party

What is Contingency fee?
200

Assets are expenses are considered this

What are debit accounts?

300

States to whom the check is paid and requires the designated person's endorsement but is still negotiable

What is Special (Full) endorsement?

300

The difference between the total debits and credits posted to an account

What is a balance?
300

An individual piece of legal work given to a client, allows different projects to be billed separately

What are Matters?

300

Time frame in which attorney bill for their time

What is every 6 minutes or tenth of an hour?

300

The process of analyzing, recording, classifying, summarizing, reporting and interpreting financial transactions and events

What is accounting?

400

Limits the further purpose of use of the check

What is Restrictive Endorsement?

400

Check issued by a bank upon its fund in another bank, usually located in another city

What is a bank draft?

400

A small amount of company cash, often kept on hand to pay for minor or indicental expenses

What is Petty Cash?

400

Time that is accounted for even when it is not directly billable

What is Nonbillable time?

400

Under the ethical rules governing legal representation, the lawyer must have a separate account in which to deposit and maintain client funds that have been entrusted to them

What is a trust account?


500

Endorser assumes no legal responsibility for payment should the drawer have insufficient funds to honor the check

What is Qualified Endorsement?

500

The person to whom the check is written

Who is drawee?

500

A type of compensation agreement with lawyers either for reserving their employment or as compensation for future services 

Retainer
500

Lawyers must remain competitive to hang onto its customers and bring new ones in by doing this

What is discounting time?

500

Assets, liabilities, equity, revenues and expenses are known as

What are the 5 basic accounting elements?

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