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Accounting Debit Credit Rules
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business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 16 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A debit decreases...
Grouping of accounts
Record of Transactions
Always a liability
Liabilities
2. Posting
Cost of operating. Decreases stockholder equity
Liabilities
Assets
Copying data from the journal to the ledger
3. A credit decreases...
Assets
Grouping of accounts
Always a liability
Record of Transactions
4. Expense
Assets
Cost of operating. Decreases stockholder equity
Grouping of accounts
Always a liability
5. Owners Equity
Assets
Record of Transactions
Liabilities
Assets- Liabilities
6. Credit
Liabilities
Assets- Liabilities
Grouping of accounts
Right side
7. A credit increases..
Record of Transactions
Cost of operating. Decreases stockholder equity
Revenues - Expenses
Liabilities
8. Receivable
Always an asset
Side of account where increases are recorded
Right side
Record of Transactions
9. A debit increases...
Liabilities
Revenues - Expenses
Assets
Copying data from the journal to the ledger
10. Revenue
Revenues - Expenses
Increases stockholder equity
Right side
Assets
11. Debit
Liabilities
Increases stockholder equity
Always a liability
Left side
12. Net Income
Assets
Copying data from the journal to the ledger
Revenues - Expenses
Always an asset
13. Journal
Record of Transactions
Liabilities
Always an asset
Cost of operating. Decreases stockholder equity
14. Normal Balance
Side of account where increases are recorded
Cost of operating. Decreases stockholder equity
Assets
Left side
15. Payable
Record of Transactions
Assets
Right side
Always a liability
16. Ledger
Assets- Liabilities
Left side
Side of account where increases are recorded
Grouping of accounts