Explain the Terms for the Following Retained Earnings in Accounting Flashcards

Chapters 1,2,3,4

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The accumulated net income earned since the inception of the corporation and not yet paid to shareholders is referred to as:
Retained Earnings
Measuring business activities and reporting those measurements to external parties is the function of:
financial accounting
Profits that have accumulated in the company over time are called:
retained earnings
The following are financial statements:
-Income statement
-Statement of stockholders' equity
-Balance sheet
The form a business organization where an entity is legally separate from its owners and issues shares of stock is a:
Corporation
1. Statement of Cash Flows
2. Income Statement
3. Balance sheet
1. Operating, investing, and financing activities.
2. Revenues and expenses.
3. Assets, liabilities, and stockholders' equity.
The classifications on the statement of cash flows are cash flows from:
-Investing activities
-Financing activities
-Operating activities
True or false:
The fundamental activities of a business are selling activities and marketing activities.
False
______ is earned by selling goods or services to customers.
Revenue
The financial statement that displays a firm's financial position on a particular date is the
Balance sheet
The financial statement that provides information about cash receipts and cash disbursements for the period is the:
statement of cash flows
What are the two primary functions of accounting?
-Communicate useful information to decision makers.
-Provide a system of maintaining records of a company's operations
The three most common forms of a business organization are:
sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation.
An advantage of the corporate form of organization is that a corporation:
has limited liability.
What items are found on a balance sheet?
-assets
-stockholders' equity
-liabilities