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What is accounting the language of?

Bussines

What are the 3 ways businesses make money?

Provide a service, sell products, or both

How is a bussines owned

Single proprietorship, partnership, corporation

What are the 3 financial statements

Income statement, statement of retained earnings, balance sheet

Single proprietorship

Owned by one person

Partnership

2 or more people are owners

Corporation

A single legal being created in the law

Corporation advantages

Limited liability. Meaning bussines and corporation can be sued but not the owner (LLC)

Single proprietorship advantages

Easy to start, bussines pays no income tax

Single proprietorship disadvantage

Unlimited liability

Partnership advantage

Bussines pays no income tax, you can pull resources

Partnership disadvantage

Unlimited liability

Corporation disadvantages

Pays fees to start up and annual fees, has to file with state, double taxation

How do you communicate financial information about a company?

With financial statements

What does an income statement tell you?

How much profit a company made within a year

What is a balance sheet?

It tells you the financial condition of a company. Also known as statement of financial condition/position

Assests

Everything a company owns

Liability

Debt a company may have

What is the accounting equation?

Assests = Liability + Networth

IPO

Initial public offering

Liquidate

A company decides to go out of business,voluntarily or invitatory. They sell all assets and pay off liability’s,owners get whatever is left

Networth

The owners share of the company.whatever is left after the company liquidates

Equity

Share of

Mortgage

Money borrowed from the bank

What are the 2 ways to get equity

Invest and profit

Capitolstock

How much owner invested

How does a company make profit?

If they take more money ey than they put in

Stockholders

Owners of a corporation

Dividen

The profit is given to the owner

Retained earnings

A profit a company made that's has not been given to the owner YET

Accounts receivable

Money owed to the company from their customers

Note

A legal document

Note receivable

Money owed to the company through a legal document

Accounts payable

Money the company owes to the supplier

Notes payable

Money owed signed by a legal document

Purchase

Total amount of merchandise bought

purchase return

Merchandise that was returned

Net purchase

Amount of money spent on merchandise that was kept

Sales discount

Amount of money a customer saves

Sales Return

Merchandise customer send back

Net sales

Amount of money we collected on the merchandise the customer kept

net purchase

Amount of money spent on merchandise we kept

Three steps to finding ending inventory

1. Count merchandise


2. Determine cost


3. Apply lower of cost or Market rule

Gross profit

Total revenue minus the cost of goods sold