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What is Business Entity?
Financial information is recorded and reported separately from the owner's personal financial information
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What is petty cash?
An amount of cash kept on hand for making small payments
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What is Supplies Expense Debit/Supplies Credit?
What accounts are affected and how when journalizing the Adjusting Entry for Supplies
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What is Cash Payments Journal?
Bought merchandise for cash with a trade discount
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What is Asset?
What kind of account is Cash
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What is Going Concern?
Financial statements are prepared with the expectation that a business will remain in operation indefinitely
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What is a worksheet?
A columnar accounting form used to summarize the general ledger information needed to prepare financial statement
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What is Supplies Debit/Accounts Payable Credit?
What accounts are affected and how when supplies are bought on account
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What is General Journal?
Bought supplies on account
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What is Revenue?
What kind of account is Sales
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What is Objective Evidence?
A source document is prepared for each transaction
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What is net loss?
The difference between total revenue and total expenses when total expenses is greater
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What is Cash Debit, Sales Credit, Sales Tax Payable Credit?
What accounts are affected and how when cash and credit sales are recorded plus sales tax
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What is Cash Receipts Journal?
Recorded cash and credit card sales plus sales tax
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What is an Expense?
What kind of account is Miscellaneous Expense
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What is Unit of Measurement?
Business transactions are stated in numbers, that have common values--dollars, pesos, etc
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What is fiscal period?
The length of time for which a business summarizes and reports financial information
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What is Purchases debit, Accounts Payable/Vendor Credit?
What accounts are affected and how when merchandise is bought on account
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What is Purchases Journal?
Bought merchandise on account
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What is an Asset?
What kind of account is Prepaid Insurance
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What is Consistent Reporting?
The same accounting procedures are followed in the same way in each accounting period
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What is closing entry?
Journal entries used to prepare temporary accounts for a new fiscal period
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What is Cash Credit, Supplies Debit, Misc. Expense Debit, Cash Short and Over Credit?
What accounts are affected and how when petty cash is replenished and there are receipts for supplies, miscellaneous expense, Cash over
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What is Sales Journal?
Sold merchandise on account plus sales tax
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What is a liability?
What kind of account is Accounts Payable
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