Ch. 7 Flashcards
A receivable arising from the sale of goods or services with a verbal promise to pay.
Account receivable
A measure of the number of times accounts receivable is collected during the period.
Accounts receivable turnover ratio
A form used to categorize the various individual accounts receivable according to the length of time each has been outstanding.
Aging schedule
A contra-asset account used to reduce accounts receivable to its net realizable value.
Allowance for doubtful accounts
A method of estimating bad debts on the basis of either the net credit sales of the period or the accounts receivable at the end of the period.
Allowance method
The general ledger account that is supported by a subsidiary ledger.
Control account
A multiple-copy document used by a company that accepts a credit card for a sale.
Credit card draft
Securities issued by corporations and governmental bodies as a form of borrowing.
Debt securities
The recognition of bad debts expense at the point an account is written off as uncollectible.
Direct write-off method
The process of selling a promissory note.
Discounting
Securities issued by corporations as a form of ownership in the business.
Equity securities
These terms, with their definitions in the text, are important for your understanding.
Key terms for promissory notes
The party that agrees to repay the money for a promissory note at some future date.
Maker
A liability resulting from the signing of a promissory note.
Note payable
An asset resulting from the acceptance of a promissory note from another company.
Note receivable
A measure of how long it takes to collect receivables.
Number of days’ sales in receivables
The party that will receive the money from a promissory note at some future date.
Payee
A written promise to repay a definite sum of money on demand or at a fixed or determinable date in the future.
Promissory note
The detail for a number of individual items that collectively make up a single general ledger account.
Subsidiary ledger