Describe These Financial Accounting Terms Flashcards

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Communication of economic events is the part of the accounting process that involves...
Preparing accounting reports
The accounting process is correctly sequenced as...
Identification, recording, communication
Which of the following would not be considered an external user of accounting data for the GHI company?
Management
Generally accepted accounting principles are...
Standards that indicate how to report economic events
Which of the following is not an advantage of the corporate form of business organization?
Unlimited personal liability for stockholders
Retained earning at the end of the period is equal to...
Retained earnings at the beginning of the period plus net income minus dividends
Net income results when...
Revenues > Expenses
All of the financial statements are for a period of time except the...
Balance sheet
The double-entry system requires that each transaction must be recorded...
In at least two different accounts
Expanded basic accounting equation:
Assets+dividends+Expenses=Liabilities+Common Stock+Retained Earnings+Revenues
The usual sequence of steps in the recording process is to analyze each transaction, enter the transaction in the...
Journal, and transfer the information to the ledger accounts.
Transactions in a journal are recorded in...
Chronological order
The usual order of accounts in the general ledger is:
Assets, liabilities, common stock, retained earnings, dividends, revenues, and expenses
After journal entries are posted, the reference column...
Of the general ledger will show journal page numbers.
A trial balance may balance even when each of the following occurs except when...
A transposition error is made.