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What is Accounting?
Recording, Planning, Analyzing, and Interpreting Financial Information
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What are liabilities and owners' equity?
These are the two things that make one’s assets
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What is Journalizing?
This is the act of recording transactions in a journal
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What is a correcting entry?
This is an entry in the journal that corrects an error
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What is buying on account?
A Term for an Arrangement for One Business to buy now and pay later
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What is a T account?
An accounting device used to analyze transactions
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What is a source document?
This is a business paper from which information is obtained for a journal entry
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What is a ledger?
This is what a group of accounts is called
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What is a creditor
A person or business to whom a liability is owed
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What is a chart of accounts?
This is a list of accounts used by a business
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What is a check?
A business paper ordering a bank to pay cash from a bank account
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What is file maintenance?
This is the procedure for arranging accounts in a general ledger, assigning account numbers, and keeping records current.
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What are the Generally Accepted Accounting Principals? (GAAP)
This is the standards and rules that accountants follow
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What are accounts receivable?
Amounts to be received in the future due to the sale of goods or services is called this
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What is a sales invoice?
A source document for recording a sale on account
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What is opening an account?
Writing an account title and number on the heading of an account is called-
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What is a proprietorship?
A business run by one person
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What are accounts payable?
Amounts to be paid in the future for goods or services already acquired is known as-
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What is a receipt?
This is a business form giving written acknowledgment for cash received
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What is posting?
This is the act of transferring information from a journal entry to a ledger account
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