A promise to pay for goods or services provided by an individual or organization at a later date.
Purchase On Account
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 summary-level report used to convey the financial position and performance of an organization within a specific time period.
What is the Financial Statement ?
A report provided by a bank that outlines and summarizes an account holder’s bank account transactions that occurred during a specific month.
What are bank statements?
A physical or electronic paper trail that verifies the occurrence and details of a transaction.
What is a source document?
In addition to an owner, these people also have claims against a company's assets.
Who are creditors?
A list of all account titles and account numbers used in a ledger.
What is the Chart of Accounts?
Revenues and expenses are recognized and recorded at the time they are earned or incurred.
What is the accrual method?
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?
The value of a company, calculated by multiplying the number of outstanding shares by the current stock price.
What is Market Capitalization?
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?