Double-Entry Accounting
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Chart of Accounts
100

It's what Assets equal in the accounting equation

What is Liabilities + Shareholder's Equity?

100

Purchase credit memos have this normal balance

What is debit?

100

To an accountant, P&L is this

What is profit & loss?

100

This is a numbered list of the accounts that comprise a company's general ledger

What is the chart of accounts?

200

It's the account you debit when you credit AR

What is cash?

200

This increases the balance of the AR account

What is a debit?

200

In accounting, ROA is a "return on" these

What are assets?

200

This is the number that liability accounts begin with, like the PB account

What is 2?

300

When we sell supplies, we debit this account and credit this account

What are AR and AP?

300

You do this to an IC account when transferring supply invoices from their customer account

What is debit?

300

In referring to the shifting of money or paperwork, the accounting term FIFO means this

What is First in, First out?

300

The G/L MISC INC-PERF DEPOSITS begins with this number

What is 8?

400

Paying contractors credits this account and debits this account

What are Cash and AP?

400

This is the normal balance of the PB account

What is credit? 

400

Accelerated & straight-line are the 2 types of this, cost allocation for a major purchase as it wears down

What is depreciation? 

400

Account orientation fees, G/L 43100, are posted to this type of account

What is revenue?

500

It's the account you are debiting when a customer has a bounced check

What is AR?

500

The G/L for WC ins lapses is this type of account and therefore has this normal balance

What are liability and credit?

500

Uncle Sam tells business accountants that to be this, an expense must be ordinary & necessary

What is deductible?

500

These are both listed on the balance sheet

What are assets and liabilities?