What is the system of recording and summarizing financial transactions?
What is Accounting?
The current balance of all money owed to a company for goods and/or services it sold to its customers, but that haven’t yet been paid for by its customers.
What is Accounts Receivable?
a financial report detailing a company’s income and expenses over a reporting period
What is the Income Statement ?
What’s the first step in the accounting cycle?
What is identifying and analyzing transactions?
An entry on the left side of an account, usually meaning an increase to assets or expenses.
What is a debit?
What document is prepared after the ledger and before adjustments?
What is a Trial Balance?
A list of all account titles and account numbers used in a ledger.
What is the liabilities?
Why must the accounting equation stay balanced?
Because every transaction affects at least two accounts, maintaining balance
This is considered the normal balance of revenue
What is credit?
What’s the purpose of the journal?
What is to record the transaction in chronological order?
A multi-step process of identifying, analyzing, recording, and processing a company’s financial transactions over an accounting period.
What is the Accounting Cycle?
These are 2 components on a income statement.
What are revenue and expenses?
A cost incurred to provide products and services to customers and operate a business.
What is an expense?
this is the final step of the Accounting Cycle
What is preparing a post-closing trial balance?
What is the accounting method where transactions are recorded when they are earned or incurred, not when cash is exchanged?
What is Accrual-Based Accounting?
Revenue and expenses are closing entry accounts.
What are temporary accounts?
The function of accounting that helps an organization make well-informed decisions through the measurement, analysis, and communication of accounting information.
What is Managerial Accounting?