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Chapter 1: The Financial Statements Flashcards

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Financial Statements

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Are the business documents that companies use to report the results of their activities to various user groups

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Accounting

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Is an information system that measures business activities, processes data into reports, and communicates results to decision makers

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Why is accounting called the “language of business”?

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Because it produces financial statements, which report information about a business entity. The financial statements measure performance and communicate where a business stands in financial terms

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Why do individuals use accounting information?

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Accounting provides the necessary information to allow individuals to make decisions regarding personal bank accounts, renting a house, and budgeting monthly income

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Why do investors and creditors use accounting information?

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Investors want to know how much income they can expect to earn on an investment and creditors want to know when a corporation is going to pay them back

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Why do regulatory bodies use accounting information?

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The IRS and various state and local governments require businesses to pay taxes. The SEC requires companies whose stock is traded publicly to provide periodic financial reports

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Why do non-profit organizations use accounting information?

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Churches, hospitals, and charities base many of their operating decisions on accounting data

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Financial Accounting

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Provides information for decision makers outside the organization such as investors, creditors, government agencies, and the public. Information must be relevant for decision makers and represented faithfully depicting the entity’s current economic activities.

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Managerial Accounting

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Provides information for managers. Includes budgets, forecasts, and projections that are used in making strategic decisions of the entity

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Proprietorship

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Has a single owner and tend to be small retail stores or solo providers of professional services.

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Liability of a Proprietorship

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The proprietor is personally liable for all of the business’s debts.

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Should the business finances and personal finances be mixed?

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No

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Partnership

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Has 2 or more parties called co-owners and each owner is a partner. Income and loss flow through to the partners and they recognize it based on their agreed upon percentage interest in the business

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How do partnerships pay taxes?

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Each partner takes a proportionate share of the entity’s taxable income and pays according to that partner’s individual or corporate rate

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How are partnerships governed?

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Partnerships are governed by a contract between the partners

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Liability of Partnerships

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Unlimited liability where any partner can conduct business in the name of the entity and can make agreements that legally bind all partners without limits for the partnership’s debts

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Limited Liability Partnership

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A partnership where a partner cannot create a large liability for the other partners

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Liability of LLP

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Each partner is liable for partnership debts up to the extent of their investment plus their proportionate share of the liabilities

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What does a LLP need to have?

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An LLP must have one general partner with unlimited liability for all partnership debts

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Limited Liability Corporation

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Is one of which where the business is liable for the company’s debts

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What are owners of an LLC called?

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Members

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Liability of an LLC

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Members of an LLC do not have unlimited liability for the LLC’s debt

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Does an LLC pay income tax?

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They pay no business income tax

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How do members of an LLC pay income taxes?

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The LLC’s income flows through to the members and they pay income tax at their own tax rates just as if they were partners

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Corporation
Is a business owned by the stockholders who own stock representing shares of ownership in the corporation
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Advantages of Corporation
The ability to raise capital quickly by issuing stock to the public, the continuous life of a corporation, and the limited liability for stockholders
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Liability of a Corporation
Stockholders have no personal obligations for the corporation's debts. Therefore stockholders have limited liability of their investment
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How is a corporation formed?
Is formed under state law
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Double Taxation of Corporations
Corporations pay income taxes on profits and stockholders are taxed on their dividends
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What are the voting rights of stockholders?
Stockholders usually get one vote for each share they own
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What rights do stockholders have?
Stockholders elect a board of directors who set policy and appoint officers
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General Accepted Accounting Principles
Accountants follow professional guidelines for measurement and disclosure of financial information
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Financial Accounting Standards Board
In the United States they formulate GAAP
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International Accounting Standards Board
Sets global financial reporting standards
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Relevance
Information must be capable of making a difference to the decision maker. It must also be important enough to where if it was omitted it would make a difference in the user's decision
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Faithful Representation
The information must be complete, free from bias, and accurate. Makes the information relevant to users
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Comparability
Means that the accounting information for a company must be prepared in a way to be compared with information of other companies in the same period and consistent with similar information for that company in other periods
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Verifiability
Means that the information must be capable of being checked for completeness, accuracy, and reliability
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Timeliness
Means that the information must be made available early enough to help them make decisions
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Understandability
Means that the information must be sufficiently transparent so that it makes sense to reasonably informed users of the information
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The Entity Assumption
Any organization that stands apart as a separate economic unit. Sharp boundaries are drawn around each entity to not confuse its affairs with those of others
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The Continuity (Going-Concern) Assumption
The assumption that an entity will continue to operate long enough to use existing assets for its intended purpose
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The Historical Cost Principle
States that assets should be recorded at their actual cost measured on the date of purchase as the amount of cash paid plus the dollar value of all non-cash considerations also given in exchange
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The Stable Monetary Unit Assumption
Accountants assume that the dollar's purchasing power is stable over time. We ignore inflation and this allows us to add and subtract dollar amounts as if the dollar had consistent purchasing power.
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Accounting Equation
Assets= Liabilities + Owner's Equity
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Assets
Are economic resources that are expected to produce a future benefit
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Examples of Assets
Cash, inventory, Equipment
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Liabilities
Are outsider claims. They are debts that are paid to outsiders called creditors
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Examples of Liabilities
Loans, anything payable
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Owner's Equity
Also called capital, or stockholder's equity for a corporation. Represents the insider claims of a business. Equity means ownership in a business.
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Paid in Capital
Is the amount the stockholders have invested in the corporation.
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What is the basic component of paid in capital?
Common stock, which the corporation issues to the stockholders as evidence of ownership. All corporations have common stock
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Retained Earnings
Is the amount earned by income producing activities and kept for use in the business.
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What types of transactions that affect retained earnings?
Revenues, expenses, and dividends
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Revenues
Are inflows of resources that increase retained earnings by delivering goods or services to customers
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Expenses
Are resource outflows that decrease retained earnings due to operations. Represent the cost of doing business
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Examples of Expenses
Cost of goods sold, rent, salaries, and utility payments.
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Dividends
Decrease retained earnings because they are distributions to stockholder's generated by net income
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Net Income
Total revenues exceed total expenses
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Net Loss
Total expenses exceed total revenues
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Components of Retained Earnings
Beginning balance of retained earnings + net income or loss - dividends for the period = ending balance of retained earnings
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What happens to net income on the statement of retained earnings?
Retained earnings is the net income kept over a period of years. Net income flows from the income statement to retained earnings
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Current Assets
Are assets that are expected to be converted to cash, sold, or consumed during the next 12 months or within the business's operating cycle if longer than a year
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Examples of Current Assets
Cash and cash equivalents, short term investments, accounts and notes receivable, merchandise inventory, and prepaid expenses
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Short Term Investments
Includes stocks and bonds of other companies that they intend to sell within the years
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Accounts Receivable
Are amounts the company expects to collect from customers
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Long Term (Non-Current) Assets
Assets that will not be used up within 12 months
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Examples of Long Term Assets
Property, equipment, goodwill, and other large investments
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Property and Equipment
Includes a corporations land, buildings, computers, store fixtures, and equipment.
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How do corporations report property and equipment?
Corporations report property and equipment as net meaning their historical cost of the assets minus the accumulated depreciation
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Intangibles
Are assets with no physical form such as patents, trademarks, and goodwill
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Long Term Investmens
Are investments the company does not intend to sell within the next year
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Current Liabilities
Are debts payable within one year
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Examples of Current Liabilities
Accounts payable, accrued expenses, and federal income tax payable
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Current Maturities of Long Term Debt
Represent the portion of long term liabilities that the company will have to pay within a year
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Accounts Payable
Represents amounts owed to a company's vendors and suppliers for purchases of inventory
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Accrued Expenses
Interest payable on borrowed money, accrued liabilities for salaries, utilities, and other expenses a company has not yet paid
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Income Taxes Payable
Are tax debts owed to the government
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Common Stock
Represented by shares issued to stockholders. This amount represents the face amount of the stock
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Additional Paid in Capital
Represents amount of cash received on initial sale of the company's stock in excess of par value
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Treasury Stock
Represents the amount paid by the company to repurchase its own stock
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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
Represents items of gain or loss that are allowed by the FASB to bypass the income statement and be recorded directly into stockholders equity
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3 activities on the Statement of Cash Flows
Operating activities, financing activities, investing activities
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Operating Activities
Companies operate by selling goods and services to customers. Operating activities result in net income or net loss. And they either increase or decrease cash
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Investing Activities
Companies invest in long term assets. Both purchases and sales of long term assets are investing cash flows
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Financing Activities
Companies need money for financing. Includes issuing stock, paying dividends, borrowing, and repayments of borrowed funds
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Economic Factor
States the decision being made should maximize the economic benefits to the decision maker
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Legal Factor
Is based on the preposition that free societies are governed by laws. Laws are written to provide clarity and to prevent abuse of the rights of individuals or society
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Ethical Factor
Recognizes that while certain actions might be both economically profitable and legal, they may still not be right. Most companies have established standards for themselves to enforce a higher level of conduct than that imposed by law
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Ethics
Are shaped by our cultural, socioeconomic, and religious backgrounds. An ethical analysis is needed to guide judgement for making decisions
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What are total assets if total liabilities are $150,000 and stockholder's equity is $150,000?
Total Assets= $300,000
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What is total stockholder's equity if total assets is $280,000 and total liabilities are $110,000?
Stockholder's Equity = $170,000
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What is total liabilities if total assets are $210,000 and stockholder's equity is $160,000?
Total Liabilities = $50,000
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How should ethics be incorporated into making accounting judgements?
Should be incorporated by asking if the action is legal? Who will be affected by the decision? And how will the decision make me feel afterward?
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What forms of organizations would enable owners to limit the risks of loss to the amounts they have invested?
A corporation, limited liability partnership, or limited liability company
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What form of business organization would give an owner the most freedom to manage the business as they wish?
Proprietorship
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What form of business organization will give creditors the maximum protection in case a company fails and cannot pay their debts?
Partnership, because creditors can force the partners to pay the business debts from personal assets
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Which accounting assumption governs mixing personal and corporate finances?
The entity assumption because it would allow everyone to understand the financial understanding of the company
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If Wendy's sells a store location to Burger King how can Wendy's determine the actual sale price from the sale?
Historical cost principle, this principle states you report figures from when something is purchased and sold
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If a company wants to measuring its land values in inflation adjusted amounts what assumption would they use?
Stable monetary unit assumption states the purchasing power of a dollar would remain stable over a period of time
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General Motors wants to determine which division of the company is most profitable?
The entity assumption is used to determine the profits of different parts of the company
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If you buy a $1200 computer for $500 what is the accounting value for this computer?
$500
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How are assets and owner's equity different from each other?
Assets are economic resources that are expected to provide future benefit while owner's equity is the owner's interest in the assets
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How are liabilities and owner's equity similar and different?
Liabilities are outside claims to assets as they are obligations to pay creditors. Owner's equity are inside claims to show owner's interest in assets
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Accounts Payable
Liability
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Common Stock
Owner's equity
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Supplies
Assets
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Retained Earnings
Owner's equity
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Land
Assets
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Prepaid expenses
Assets
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Accounts receivable
Assets
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Long term debt
Liability
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Merchandise inventory
Asset
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Notes payable
Liability
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Accrued expenses payable
Liability
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Equipment
Asset
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Identify the two basic categories of items on an income statement
Revenues and expenses
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What do we call the bottom line of the income statement?
Net income or net loss
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What financial statements do dividends appear on?
Statement of retained earnings and statement of cash flows
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What financial statement does salary expense appear on?
Income statement
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What financial statement does inventory appear on?
Balance sheet
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What financial statement does sales revenue appear on?
Income statement
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What financial statement does retained earnings appear on?
Statement of retained earnings, balance sheet
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What financial statement does net cash provided by operating activities appear on?
Statement of cash flows
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What financial statement does net income appear on?
Income statement, statement of retained earnings, and statement of cash flows
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What financial statement does cash appear on?
Balance sheet, statement of cash flows
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What financial statement does net cash used for financing appear on?
Statement of cash flows
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What financial statement does accounts payable appear on?
Balance sheet
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What financial statement does common stock appear on?
Balance sheet
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What financial statement does interest revenue appear on?
Income statement
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What financial statement does long term debt appear on?
Balance sheet
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What financial statement does an increase/decrease in cash appear on?
Statement of cash flows
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How can a business earn large profits but have a small balance of retained earnings?
They could pay large dividends
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Give 2 reasons as to why a business could have steady net income but have a cash shortage?
Heavy investing and paying off debts could reduce cash
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If you could pick a single source of cash what would it be?
Collections from customers because it is the best way to get cash
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How can a business be unprofitable and still have cash?
Borrowing, issuing stock, and selling assets
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What financial statement does common stock appear on?
Balance sheet
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What financial statement does ending balance of retained earnings appear on?
Statement of retained earnings and balance sheet
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What financial statement does total assets appear on?
Balance sheet
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What financial statement does adjustments to net income appear on!
Statement of cash flows
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What financial statement does ending cash balance appear on?
Statement of cash flows and balance sheet

BUS 214: Financial Accounting (3 decks)

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