GAAP
Income Statement
Miscellaneous
Accounting Terms
100

A set of rules and practices, having substantial authoritative support, that the accounting profession recognizes as a general guide for financial reporting purposes.


Generally Acceptable Accounting Practice

100

A financial statement that presents the revenues and expenses and resulting net income or net loss of a company for a specific period of time.

What is the income statement?

100

What are the basic principles that govern behavior?

What is ethics?

100

The information system that identifies, records, and communicates the economic events of an organization to interested users.

What is accounting?

200

A category on the balance sheet that includes cash, accounts receivable, equipment, and inventory.

What are assets?

200

The difference between revenue and expenses.

What is net income?

200

GAAP

What is generally acceptable accounting procedures?

200

This part of the statement of cash flow reports the buying and selling of corporate assets.

What are investing activities?

300





300

A category on the income statement that represents the write off of uncollectible receivables.

What is bad debt?

300

an estimate of income and expenses

What is budget?

300

A type of accounting that prepares and reports financial data to internal users

What is a managerial accounting?

400
The amount of net income retained in the corporation.
What are retained earnings?
400

A rise in the allowance for doubtful accounts will result in a drop to this item on the income statement.

What is net income?

400

This company is under fire for not providing enough privacy for its members

What is Facebook?

400

A financial summary with estimates as to when, where, and how much money will go in and out of a business

Cash Flow Statement


500

The owners' claim to assets.

What is stockkholder's equity?

500

This item on the income statement is considered a noncash expense that is directly tied to fixed assets such as equipment, vehicles, or buildings.

What is depreciation?

500

Maintaining honest and open communication

What is Transparency

500
Transactions that are recorded to the accounting records in the periods in which the events occur, not when it's paid.
What is accrual basis accounting?