Accounting-Vocabulary

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Chapter 1

  • accounting
  • accounting system
  • accounting records
  • service business
  • proprietorship
  • asset
  • equities
  • liability
  • owner’s equity
  • accounting equation
  • Concept: Business Entity – page 6
  • Concept Unit of Measurement – page 9
  • transaction
  • account
  • account title
  • account balance
  • capital
  • Concept: Going Concern – page 13
  • balance sheet

 


Chapter 2

  • revenue
  • sale on account
  • expense
  • withdrawals

Chapter 3

  • T account
  • Debit
  • Credit
  • Normal balance
  • Chart of accounts

 


Chapter 4

  • Journal
  • Journalizing
  • Special amount column
  • General amount column
  • Entry
  • double-entry accounting
  • Source document
  • Check
  • Invoice
  • Sales invoice
  • Receipt memorandum
  • proving cash

 


Chapter 5

  • Ledger
  • General ledger
  • Account number
  • File maintenance
  • Opening an account
  • Posting
  • Correcting entry

 


Chapter 6

  • Checking account
  • Endorsement
  • Blank endorsement
  • Restrictive endorsement
  • Postdated check
  • Bank statement
  • Dishonored check
  • Electronic funds transfer
  • Debit card petty cash
  • Petty cash slip

 


Chapter 7

  • Fiscal period
  • Work sheet
  • Trial balance
  • Adjustments
  • Income statement
  • Net income
  • Net loss

 


Chapter 8

  • Component
  • Percentage

 


Chapter 9

  • Adjusting entries
  • Permanent accounts
  • Temporary accounts
  • Closing entries
  • Post-closing trial balance
  • Accounting cycle

 


Chapter 10

  • Partnership partner
  • Merchandising business
  • Retail merchandising business
  • Merchandise
  • Wholesale merchandising business
  • Markip
  • Vendor
  • Purchase invoice
  • Terms of sale

 


Chapter 11

  • Customer
  • Sales tax
  • Cash sale
  • Credit card sale

 


Chapter 12

  • Subsidiary ledger
  • Accounts payable ledger
  • Accounts receivable ledger
  • Controlling account
  • Schedule of accounts payable
  • Schedule of accounts receivable

 


Chapter 13

  • Salary
  • Pay period
  • Payroll
  • Total earnings
  • Payroll taxes
  • Withholding allowance
  • Social security tax
  • Medicare tax
  • Tax base
  • Payroll register
  • Net pay
  • Employee earnings record

 


Chapter 14

  • Federal unemployment tax
  • State unemployment tax

 


Chapter 15

  • Inventory
  • Merchandise inventory

 


Chapter 16

  • Cost of merchandise sold
  • Gross profit on sales
  • Distribution of net income statement
  • Owner’s’ equity statement
  • Supporting schedule

 


Chapter 17
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Chapter 18

  • Corporation
  • Share of stock
  • Capital stock
  • Special journal
  • Purchases journal
  • Cash payments journal
  • List price
  • Trade discount
  • Cash discount purchases discount
  • Purchases discount
  • Contra account
  • Cash short
  • Cash over
  • General journal
  • Purchases return
  • Purchases allowance
  • Debit memorandum

 


Chapter 19

  • Sales journal
  • Cash receipts journal
  • Sales discount
  • Sales return
  • Sales allowance
  • Memorandum exports
  • Imports
  • Contract of sale
  • Letter of credit
  • Bill of lading commercial invoice
  • Draft
  • Sight draft
  • Time draft
  • Trade acceptance

 


Chapter 20

  • Uncollectable accounts
  • Allowance method of recording losses from uncollectible accounts
  • Book value
  • Book value of accounts receivable
  • Writing off an account