Accounting Equation
Account Types
GAAP and Financial Statements
Adjusting Entries
Double-Entry Accounting
100

This equals liabilities plus equity

What are Assets?

100

Resources a company owns or controls that are expected to yield future benefits.

What are assets?

100

The rule that requires financial statements to assume that the business will continue operating instead of being closed or sold.

What is the Going-concern assumption?

100

These type of entries affect both income statement and balance sheet accounts.

What are adjusting entries?

100

An account linked with another account that has an opposite normal balance and is subtracted from the balance of the related account.

What is a contra account?

200

The difference between a company's assets and its liabilities, or net assets.

What is Equity?
200

What a company owes.

What are liabilities?

200

The following accounting principles prescribes that a company record its expenses incurred to generate the revenue reported.

What is the expense recognition (Matching) principle?

200

The difference between the cost of an asset and the accumulated depreciation for that asset.

What is the book value? (or net value)

200

A credit is used to record a decrease in which of the following accounts?

Accounts Payable

Sales Revenue

Salaries Receivable

What is Salaries Receivable?

300

Identify the impact on the accounting equation:

The company purchases office supplies on credit. 

Hint: two part answer

What is increases an asset & a liability?

300

Decreases in equity from costs of providing products or services to customers.

What are expenses?

300

The rule that requires revenue to be recognized when (1) goods or services are provided to customers and (2) at the amount expected to be received from the customer

What is the Revenue recognition principle?

300

The company has earned (but not recorded) $335 of interest revenue for the year ended December 31. The interest payment will be received 5 days after the year-end on January 5.  This is the credit.

What is Interest Revenue for 335?

Full entry:

Interest Receivable 335

   Interest Revenue        335

300

On 5/1, the company collected $2,100 cash for plumbing services billed on April 28.  This is the journal entry for 5/1.

What is:

Cash 2,100

Accounts Receivable 2,100

?

400

Identify the impact on the accounting equation:

The company purchases a company car for cash.

What is increases an asset & decreases an asset?

400

Assets created by selling goods and services on credit.

What are Accounts Receivable (AR)?

400

A company’s list of all ledger accounts with an identification number assigned to each account.

What is a chart of accounts?

400

Salaries of $4,200 are earned by workers but not paid as of March 31.  This is the debit.

What is Salaries Expense for $4,200?

Full entry:

Salaries Expense 4,200

   Salaries Payable       4,200


400

S. Reyes invested $25,000 cash in Dewey Shell Company.  This is the journal entry.

What is:

Cash 25,000

S. Reyes, Capital, 25,000

?

500

Identify the impact on the accounting equation:

The company provides plumbing services and sent an invoice for $200 to be received within 30 days. 

What is increases an asset & an equity?

500

One asset out of the following that is not depreciated:

Buildings

Land

Cars

Equipment

What is Land?

500

Financial statements are typically prepared in this order.

What is Income statement, statement of owner's equity, balance sheet.?

500

The Supplies account had a $250 debit balance at the beginning of the year. During the year, $500 of supplies are purchased. A physical count of supplies at December 31 shows $435 of supplies available.  This is the debit to record on December 31.

What is Supplies Expense for $315?

Full entry:

Supplies Expense   315

    Supplies                  315

500

The company paid $2,400 cash for a 24-month prepaid insurance policy on their building.

What is:

Prepaid Insurance 2,400

Cash                             2,400

?