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CLEP Financial Accounting Vocab

Subjects : clep, business-skills
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1. A place on the financial books to keep track of financial info that the owners want to know






2. Debts owned to people outside the company






3. Debts that must be paid within one year or one operating cycle - whichever is longer






4. The cost to the business of the goods that it sells






5. Modified accelerated cost recovery syste - for which IRS tables tell the rate by which to multiply an assets historical cost






6. A word that means a subtraction has occured






7. Calc cash flow from opeations that does not start with NI - but does show cash-in cash-out cat. `






8. An account that gets subtracted from its related account. Contra accounts always get reported as negative numbers.






9. That porition of the business the owner gets to keep after paying all creditors






10. Method of journalizing and posting accounts at the same time by recording transac vertically in columns






11. To sell a note to a bank that subtracts a discount - giving the seller the proceeds`






12. A financial statement that calculates an end-of-period balance of the owner's equity account






13. The official list of all business accounts






14. When money is changed into another asset that helps the business make money






15. Assets that help a business or person make money






16. Income-expenses






17. The financial report that shows the result of business operations over a period of time






18. Accounts that explain why assets went down from operations






19. Contra-asset account that accumulates all the deprec of long lived assets over the years






20. Income - Expenses = Net Income






21. Non-operating exp or revenues come from transactions that are not part of normal biz operations






22. The financial report that shows the result of biz operations over a period of time






23. A supply of items a business has on hand






24. The cost of business airplane fairs - trains and long-distance buses






25. Asset has not been sold but a gain or loss has occurred






26. Accounts that explain why assets went up from operations






27. Money is 'expensed' if it is gone forever - if there remains no useful assert as a result of the spending. THe opposite of capitalized. `






28. A depr method that results in higher depr exp in an assets early years






29. A financial statement analysis technique in which one number is assigned 100% and all other numbers are expressed as a percentage of the first number. In balance sheets. the key number is total assets. In income statements - the key # is sales.






30. The cost the the biz of the goods it sells






31. The inventory method that keeps track of merchandise costs in various purchases and contra-purchases accounts and then computes cost of goods sold on the income statement. Inventory on the books is adjusted only at year-end.






32. An income account that explains the increase in business assets as a result of selling goods






33. Money is 'expensed' if it is gone forever - if there remains no useful asset as a result of the spending. The opposite is CAPITALIZED






34. Economic resources that the business plans to use in the future to make money






35. The inventory system that averages the cost of all items in inventory and assigns that averaged cost the the items sold.






36. Where cash came from and where it went - Cash flow from operations - cash flow from investing activities - cash flow from financing activities - calculation of (1) net cash flow - and (2) cash - end of period






37. A note with an interest rate written on the face - whose face amount is the present value






38. Recorded the cost as an asset






39. The amount borrowed - or the principal. Interest-bearing notes show the present value as the face amount






40. The amount of the historical cost of an asset that gets allocated over the useful life of the asset






41. When numbers are 'netted' they combine so that the negative numbers get subtracted from the positive numbers






42. Money that the owner takes from the business or money in the business account that the owner spends on personal bills.






43. Outsders to whom the business owes money






44. The cost of living while away from home of business






45. The amount of long-lived assets used up during operations






46. The financial report that shows business assets - liabilities - and the owners equity on a particular day






47. The 12 month period a business used to report the results of its operatons






48. The inventory method that increases the inventory account with every purchase and lowers the inventory with every sale.






49. The contra-asset account that accumulates all the depreciation of long-lived assets over the years






50. A tool to keep track of the ops and downs in account. The ups go on one side of the T and the downs go on the other