Vocabulary
Activator Questions
Receiving Cash
Paying Cash
Transaction on Account
100

What does General Accepted Accounting Principals mean? 

The standard and rules that accountants follow while recording and reporting financial activities are commonly referred to as Accepted Accounting Principals.

100

What are the three classifications used in the accounting equation?

What are Assets, Liabilities, and Owner's Equity?

100

Received cash from the owner as an investment.

Which account are affected?

What are 

Account Title 

Cash and Owner's Equity

100

Paid cash for supplies

Which accounts are affected?

What is 

Cash and Supplies

100

Bought supplies on account from Canyon Office Supplies

Which accounts are affected

What is 

Supplies and Accounts Payable Canyon Office Supplies

200

Owner's Equity

What you are worth after all liabilities and expenses are paid?

200

What is Accounting?

What is the process of planning, recording, analyzing and interpreting financial information?

200

Received cash from the owner as an investment.

How is each account classified?

What are 

Cash is an Asset

Capital is an Asset

200

Paid cash for supplies

How is each account classified?

What is 

Assets for both Cash and Supplies

200

Bought supplies on account from Canyon Office Supplies

How is each account classified?

What is

Supplies is Assets 

Accounts Payable - Canyon Office Supplies

300

Accounting Equation

What is Assets + Liabilities = Owner's Equity?

300

What is an Accounting System?

What is a planned process designed to compile financial data? 

300

Received cash from the owner as an investment.

How is each classification change?

What is 

Cash Increased

Capital Increased

300

Paid cash for supplies

How is each classification changed?

What is 

Cash is decreased

Supplies is increased

300

Bought supplies on account from Canyon Office Supplies

How is each classification changed

What is

Supplies Increase

Accounts Payable Canyon Office 

400

What is an Asset?

What are any items, products, or goods that you can convert into money?
400

What is a Sole Proprietor?

What is a single person who owns a business?

400

Received cash from the owner as an investment.

How is each amount entered in the account?

What are:

Assets (cash) is increased on the debit side

Owner's Equity is increased on the credit side

400

Paid cash for supplies

How is each amount entered in the account?

What is 

the amount entered in cash ($$) has decreased and the amount entered in supplies has increased

400

Bought supplies on account from Canyon Office Supplies

How is each amount entered in the account?

What is 

Assets increase on the debit side

Accounts Payable increase on the credit side

500

What is a Liability?

What is money you owe a person, business or corporation?

500

Give two examples of service businesses in your area.

What are: 

Nail Salon

Lawn Care Service

Mailperson 

Etc.  

500

What must be done if a transaction increases the left side of the equation?

What is the right side must also increase?

500

How can a transaction affect only one side of the equation?



What is if one account is increased, another on the same side of the equation must be decreased by the same amount?

500

What does the term on account mean?

What paying the invoice (Bill) at a later date

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