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Created by Shannon Anderson-Rush
over 11 years ago
 
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| Question | Answer | 
| Account balance | amount in an account | 
| Account title | name given to an account | 
| Account | record summarizing all the info pertaining to a single item in the accounting equation | 
| Accounting equation | shows relationship among assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity | 
| Accounting records | summaries of a business’s financial activities | 
| Accounting system | planned process for providing financial information that will be useful to management | 
| Accounting | planning recording, analyzing, and interpreting financial information | 
| Asset | anything of value that is owned or controlled | 
| Business ethics | use of ethics in making business decisions | 
| Capital | account used to summarize the owner’s equity | 
| Equities | financial rights to the assets of a business | 
| Ethics | principles of right and wrong | 
| Expense | decrease in owner’s equity resulting from the operation of a business | 
| Financial statements | reports that summarize the financial condition and operations of a business | 
| Liability | amount of money owed to the creditors of a business | 
| Owner’s equity | amount remaining after the value of all liabilities is subtracted from the value of all assets | 
| Proprietorship | business owned by one person | 
| Revenue | increase in owner’s equity resulting from the operation of a business | 
| Transaction | business activity that changes assets, liabilities, or owner’s equity | 
| Withdrawals | assets taken out of a business for the owner’s personal use | 
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