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What is an Endorsement?
A signature or stamp on the back of a check transferring ownership
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What is a Fiscal Period?
The length of time for which a business summarizes its financial information and reports its financial performance
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What is Financial Ratio?
The comparison between two components of financial information
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What are Closing Entries?
Journal entries used to prepare temporary accounts for a new fiscal period
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What is a Dishonored Check?
A check that a bank refuses to pay
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What is a Worksheet?
Summarize general ledger account balances to prove that debits equal credits
Plan needed changes to general ledger accounts to bring account balances up to date Separate general ledger account balances according to the financial statements to be prepared Calculate the amount of net income or net loss for a fiscal period These are all reasons for accountants to use this |
What is a Statement of Owners' Equity?
The name of the company, Date of the report, and name of the report are all things needed to prepare this; obtained from the worksheet
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What is the Accounting Cycle?
The series of accounting activities included in recording financial information for a fiscal period
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What is a Debit Card?
A bank card that automatically deducts the amount of purchase from the checking account
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What is pre-paid insurance?
Cash paid for an expense in one fiscal period that is not used until a later period
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What is Current Capital?
Capital Account Balance – Net loss – Drawing Account Balance = this
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What are Permanent Accounts?
Accounts used to accumulate information from one fiscal period to the next
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What is a Petty Cash Slip?
A form showing proof of a petty cash payment
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What is the Accrual basis of Accounting?
Reporting income when it is earned and expenses when they are incurred; GAAP requires the use of this
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What is Financial Accounting?
The area of accounting that focuses on reporting information to external users
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What is the Post-closing Trial Balance
A trial balance prepared after the closing entries are posted
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What is an Electronic Funds Transfer? (EFT)
A computerized cash payment system that transfers funds without the use of checks, currency, or other paper documents
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What is Account Title?
This is the area that Cash and Supplies appear on the worksheet
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What is Managerial Accounting?
The area of accounting that focuses on reporting information to internal users
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What is Cash?
The account holder debits insurance expense, they will likely credit this.
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