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The Business of Business
The Government's Business
Accounting 101
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People and Terms
100

A financial establishment that invests money deposited by customers, pays it out when required, makes loans at interest, and exchanges currency.

What is a bank?

100

Money you owe a person or a business

What is debt?

100

The money used to build, run, or grow a business

What is capital?

100

A mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs of general government services, goods, and activities

What is a tax?
100

A general increase in the value of an asset or property

What is a gain?

100

To be obligated to pay or repay money to a person, bank, or business in exchange for something received

What is to owe?

100

The person or entity that you legally designate to receive the benefits from your financial products

What is a beneficiary?

200

A contract by which an institution holds funds on behalf of a client or supplies goods or services to the client on credit.

What is an account?

200

The initial amount of money that is borrowed, invested, or lent

What is principal?

200

The money generated from normal business operations

What is revenue?

200

A tax imposed by one country on the goods and services imported from another country to influence it, raise revenues, or protect competitive advantages

What is a tariff?

200

A decrease in net income that is outside the normal operations of the business

What is a loss?

200

The ability of the consumer to acquire goods or services prior to payment with the faith that the payment will be made in the future

What is credit?

200

The movement of assets, funds, or ownership rights from one place to another

What is a transfer?
300

The practice of making one's living by engaging in commerce.

What is business?

300

The price you pay to borrow money or the return earned on an investment

What is interest?

300

The cost of operations that a company incurs to generate revenue

What is expense/expenditure?

300

A commercial document that a seller issues to a buyer to record a transaction and request payment for goods or services

What is an invoice?

300

Any resource owned or controlled by a business or an economic entity

What is an asset?

300

an accounting entry that creates a decrease in liabilities or an increase in assets.

What is debit?

300

An approved plan to spend a certain amount of money in a given fiscal year or project period

What is a budget?

400

The money set aside for future use and not spent immediately.

What is savings?

400

When a financial institution, or lender, gives money to a borrower, usually in exchange for interest

What is to lend/lending?

400

The leftover money in your business account after paying all expenses.

What is profit?

400

A measure of the rate at which prices increase over a period of time, such as the overall increase in prices or the cost of living in a country

What is inflation?

400

Debts or obligations a person or company owes to someone else.

What are liabilities?

400

An asset of value that a borrower pledges as a guarantee that a loan will be repaid

What is collateral?

400

The ease and speed at which a financial asset or security can be converted to cash without losing significant value

What is liquidity?

500

A share in the ownership of a company, including a claim on the company's earnings and assets

What is stock?

500

A sum of money that one or more individuals or companies borrow from banks or other financial institutions

What is a loan?

500

Money for profit or material result.

What is investment?

500

Investment security where an investor lends money to a company or a government for a set period of time, in exchange for regular interest payments

What is a bond?

500

The degree to which financial statements and records precisely reflect a company's financial position

What is accuracy?

500

A deceptive or illegal practice that deprives someone of money or harms their financial health

What is a scam?

500

A guarantee by a seller to a buyer that if a product requires repair or remedy of a problem within a certain period after its purchase, the seller will repair the problem at no cost to the buyer

What is a warranty?

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