Untitled Deck Flashcards
What is an Accountant?
An individual who has had specialized training in accounting procedures.
What is Accounting?
The process of keeping and interpreting financial records.
What is an Accounting department?
A special department responsible for the firm’s accounting needs.
What is an Accounting system?
The methods and procedures used in handling a business’s financial information.
What are Accounts receivable?
Monies owed to a business by its customers.
What is the Accrual accounting method?
A method of accounting that records transactions at the time they occur even if no money changes hands at the time.
What are Assets?
Anything of value that a business or individual owns.
What is a Balance sheet?
A financial statement that captures the financial condition of the business at that particular moment.
What is Bookkeeping?
The step in the accounting process that actually records the business’s financial information.
What is Cash?
Currency and coins.
What is the Cash accounting method?
An accounting method in which income and expenditures are recorded at the time the money changes hands.
What is the Cost of goods?
The amount of money a business pays for the products it sells or for the raw materials from which it produces goods to sell.
What is Credit?
The arrangement by which businesses or individuals can purchase now and pay later.
Who are Creditors?
Individuals or businesses to whom a business owes money or from whom it wants to borrow money.
What are Current liabilities?
Debts that must be paid within a year.
What are Debts?
Amounts of money businesses or individuals owe to others.
What is a Disbursement journal?
An accounting record for recording daily expenditures.
What is an Economic forecast?
A prediction of what may happen in the nation’s economy.
What are Expenses?
The monies that a business spends.
What is a Financial statement?
A summary of accounting information.
What are Fixed assets?
Items of value a business owns that are not expected to change (e.g., buildings).
What is Income?
Money received by a business or an individual from outside sources for supplying goods and services to customers.
What is an Income statement?
A financial summary that shows how much money the business has made or has lost; also called the profit-and-loss statement.
Who are Investors?
Those who invest their funds in a business, may be owners or stockholders.
What is a Journal?
A special book or computer program in which a business’s transactions are recorded in the order in which they occur.
What is a Ledger?
The accounting record for a specific department or area of the business.
What are Liabilities?
Debts that the business owes.
What are Long-term liabilities?
Debts that will take longer than a year to pay (e.g., mortgage).
Who are Managers?
Individuals whose jobs involve carrying out management functions.
What is Net worth?
The total value of the business.
What are Operating expenses?
All of the expenses involved in running a business.
What is Owner’s equity?
The amount an owner has invested in the business plus or minus profits and losses.
What is Posting?
Transferring accounting information from a daily journal to the appropriate ledger.
What is Product mix?
The particular assortment of goods and services that a business offers in order to meet the needs of its markets and its company goals.
What is Profit?
Monetary reward a business owner receives for taking the risk of investing in business; income left after all expenses are paid.
What is a Profit-and-loss statement?
Another name for an income statement.
What is Return on investment?
Income received from an investment in a business.
What is a Sales journal?
An accounting record used to record the business’s daily receipts.
What are Sales revenues?
Money that comes into the business from the sale of goods and services.
What are Sales trends?
The direction in which sales are moving, i.e., increasing or decreasing.
Who are Stockholders?
Owners of stock, also known as shareholders.
What is a Transaction?
A business activity such as a sale, a purchase, or a return.
What is a Benchmark?
Something that provides a basis for comparison or evaluation.
What is a Budget?
An estimate of income and expense for a specific period of time.
What is a Chamber of commerce?
A local organization of businesses and companies that make known to the government the recommendations of the business community on issues and problems affecting the local economy.
What is an Expense?
The money that a business spends.
What is a Fiscal Year?
The 12-month period chosen by a business as its operating year that may or may not coincide with the calendar year.
What is Income?
The money received by resource owners and by producers for supplying goods and services to customers.
What does Interrelated mean?
Having an effect on or depending upon one another.
What is a Manufacturer?
A type of product that changes the shapes or forms of materials so that they will be useful to consumers.
What is a Master budget?
The overall budget of a company, made up of information from specialized budgets that are generated by individual departments.
What is a Retailer?
A business that buys consumer goods or services and sells them to the ultimate consumer.
What is a Rolling budget?
Also called a continuous budget, this replaces each passing month with a new month added to the end of the budget, so that there is always a year-long budget in place.
What is a Sales forecast?
A prediction of future sales over a specific period of time.
What is a Service business?
A type of business that performs intangible activities that satisfy the wants of consumers or industrial users.
What is a Specialized budget?
A budget that reflects a particular department or activity of a company; interrelated, often relying on one another for estimates of future activity.
What is a Trade association?
A group of persons in the same industry or geographic area who form a society to serve their common interests.
What is the U.S. Department of Commerce?
A federal agency that works in partnership with businesses, universities, communities, and workers to promote job creation and economic growth.
What is the U.S. Small Business Administration?
A federal agency whose mission is to maintain and strengthen the nation’s economy by aiding, counseling, assisting, and protecting the interests of small businesses and by helping families and businesses recover from national disasters.
What is Variance?
The difference between a budgeted amount and an actual amount.
What is Zero-based budgeting?
A method of budgeting that requires a manager to demonstrate the need for every expense instead of relying on figures from a previous period; in effect, each new budget begins at zero.
What are Accounts payable?
All monies owed by the business to others.
What is Acquisition of funds?
Finance activity involving making decisions about financing.
What is Administration of assets?
Finance activity involving making decisions about a firm’s investment.
What is Capital budgeting?
A process in which a firm’s financial managers determine which projects should invest in.
What are Capital investment decisions?
Decisions that determine which projects a business will invest in; how the investments will be financed and whether or not to pay dividends to shareholders.
What is Capital structure?
A firm’s mix of financing, usually some combination of debt and equity.
What is the Cash conversion cycle?
A ratio that refers to the number of days between a company’s paying for raw materials and receiving cash from selling the products made from those raw materials.
What is a Dividend?
A sum of money paid to an investor or stockholder as earnings on an investment.
What is Equity?
Assets minus liabilities; also known as stockholders’ equity, book value, and net worth.
What is Finance?
In business, the function that involves all money and money management matters.
What is Financing?
Funding a business activity or project through debt, equity, or venture capital.
What is Return on capital?
A measure of how well a business generates cash flow in relation to the capital it has already invested into itself.
What is Venture capital?
Invested money used for new business opportunities.