Purchases
Cash Payments
Posting
Vocab Terms 1
Vocab Terms 2
100

The purchases column of a Purchases Journal will end up getting _______________.

What is Debited?

100

Cash will always be _________ in a cash payments journal.

What is Credited?

100

Each account has this so you know what order in the ledger it falls under.

What is Account Number?

100

This is something of value that you own.

What is Asset? 

100

This is something that you owe a creditor or lender.

What is Liability?

200

We will not end up using the ___________ account when journalizing in the Purchases journal.

What is Cash?

200

This account in the special column will get a debit in the cash payments journal.

What is Accounts Payable?

200

You must update this in each account after making a posting to that account.

What is Account Balance?

200

These are financial papers that you will use when journalizing transactions.

What are Source Documents? 

200

This type of journal is used to record many different kinds of transactions.

What is General Journal?

300

The accounts payable column of a Purchases Journal will end up being ______________.

What is Credited?

300

The main source document we will use in a Cash Payments Journal is a ____________.

What is Check?

300

This ledger is used when you have to post to accounts payable and purchases account. 

What is General Ledger?

300

This type of journal is used to record one kind of specific transaction.

What is Special Journal?

300

This is the process of transferring information from a journal, to an account in the appropriate ledger.

What is Posting?

400

If we make a purchases return, these two accounts will get debited.

What is Accounts Payable and Vender account?

400

You will not end up posting the total of this column in the cash payments journal.

What is General Column?

400

This subsidiary ledger is used when it comes to purchases and cash payments.

What is Accounts Payable Ledger?

400

This is an account that is used to keep a small amount of cash on hand.

What is Petty Cash?

400

This type of journal is used when you are making a purchase, and promise to pay back that company at a later date.

What is Purchases Journal?

500

You will use this account when you need to make a return of merchandise.

What is Purchases Returns and Allowances?

500

The general column of a Cash Payments Journal will be used when paying for _____________.

What is Expenses?

500

This is the only column in the cash payments journal that you will not post the total.

What is General Column? 

500

A deduction that a vendor allows on the invoice amount to encourage prompt payment:

What is Cash Discount?

500

When a company that has purchased merchandise on account takes a cash discount

What is Purchases Discount?