Financial Statements | Account Categories | Accounts and Transactions |
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What is a Balance Sheet?
A statement that presents the financial position of a company on a particular date.
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What is a Liability?
This account category answers the question, "What does the company owe?"
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What are Notes Payable?
The liability account that increases when a company borrows money.
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What is an Equity Statement?
Consisting of Common Stock and Dividends, this statement summarizes the changes in stockholder's equity over an interval of time.
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What is an Asset?
Unlike dating, this account category has "future economic benefit".
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What is Cash?
Your company is afraid of debt, but you need to buy a truck. This asset decreases when you purchase the truck.
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What is an Income Statement?
This financial statement has Revenues and Expense (you don't want the result to be negative).
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What is Revenue?
Known as "the top line" of an Income Statement.
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What are Rent Expense and Rent Payable?
When a company receives a bill for rent, but doesn't pay immediately, these two accounts are affected.
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What is a Balance Sheet?
The "E" in the Accounting Equation is located on this financial statement.
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What is Equity?
"A" - "L" = ?? in the Accounting Equation
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What are Service Revenue and Accounts Receivable?
The two accounts impacted when a company sells $1,000 of services, but the client is slow to pay.
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What is a Cash Flow Statement?
This financial statement takes you from "accrual" world, to greener pastures.
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What are Dividends?
This account category also has an expense account on the Income Statement and reduces the ending value of the Equity Statement.
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What are Cash and Rent Payable?
Remember the rent bill the company received? Well, it finally got paid and these two accounts decreased.
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