Chapter 2 Flashcards
What are external events?
External events involve an exchange between the company and another entity.
What are internal events?
Internal events do not involve an exchange transaction but do affect the company’s financial position.
What is the accounting equation?
Assets = Liabilities - Owner’s Equity
What is a transaction?
Each even, or transaction, has a dual effect on the accounting equation.
What is owner’s equity?
AKA Shareholder’s equity, is classified by source as either paid-in capital or retained earnings.
What is a double-entry system?
The double-entry system is used to process transactions.
What is a general ledger?
A general ledger is a collection of storage areas, called accounts, used to keep track of increases and decreases in financial position elements.
What is a T-account?
In the double-entry system, debit means left side of an account and credit means right side of an account?
Asset increases are entered on the _________ side of accounts and decreases are entered on the __________ side.
Debit
Credit
Liability and equity account increases are __________ and decreases are __________.
Credits
Debits
What are permanent accounts?
Permanent accounts represent the basic financial position elements of the accounting equation.
What are temporary accounts?
Temporary accounts keep track of the changes in the retained earnings component of shareholder’s equity.
What are the steps of the accounting processing cycle during the accounting period?
- Obtain information about external transactions from source documents.
- Analyze the transaction.
- Record the transaction in a journal.
- Post from the journal to the general ledger accounts.
What are the steps of the accounting processing cycle at the end of the accounting period?
- Prepare an unadjusted trial balance
- Record adjusting entries and post to the general ledger accounts
- Prepare an adjusted trial balance
- Prepare financial statements
What are the steps of the accounting processing cycle at the end of the year?
- Close the temporary accounts to retained earnings
10. Prepare a post-closing trial balance.
A __________ is an example of a special journal used to record a repetitive type of transaction.
sales journal
How do we record the borrowing of cash and signing of a note payable?
Debit: Cash
Credit: Note payable
How do we record the issuance of common stock?
Debit: Cash
Credit: Common Stock
How do we record the borrowing of cash and the signing of notes payable?
Debit: Cash
Credit: Notes payable
How do we record the payment of one year’s rent in advance?
Debit: Prepaid rent
Credit: Cash
How to record the purchase of furniture and fixtures?
Debit: Furniture and fixtures
Credit: Cash
How to record the purchase of merchandise inventory?
Debit: Inventory
Credit: Accounts payable
How do we record the purchase of supplies?
Debit: Supplies
Credit: Cash
How do we record the month’s cash sales and the cost of those sales?
Debit: Cash
Credit: Sales revenue
Debit: COGS
Credit: Inventory
How do we record a credit sales and the cost of that sale?
Debit: Accounts receivable
Credit: Sales revenue
Debit: COGS
Credit: Inventory
How do we record the receipt of rent in advance?
Debit: Cash
Credit: Unearned rent revenue (liability)
How do we record the payment of accounts payable?
Debit: Accounts payable
Credit: Cash
How do we record the payment of salaries for the first half of the month?
Debit: Salaries Expense
Credit: Cash