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Accounting Vocabulary

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    Accounting and finance terms
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  • Everything that a company owns. This might include cars, money, buildings and machines.
    Ownership
    Equipment
    Assets
    Liabilities
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  • Money which a company owes to another company or person
    Assets
    Budget
    Expenditures
    Liabilities
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  • Financial Statement which lists all the assets and all the liabilities of a company on one particular day, which is very often 31st December. It’s like a photograph because it’s at one moment in time.
    Overdraft
    Balance Sheet
    Statement
    Income statement
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  • A Financial Statement which shows all the company’s sales and all of its costs, for a period of time.
    Double entry
    Balance Sheet
    Current Assets
    Income Statement
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  • The accounting system used all over the world which records every transaction twice, as a Debit and a Credit.
    Double Entry
    Bank Overdraft
    Fixtures and fittings
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  • These are often shown in a shorter form as Dr. and Cr. They are the two sides used in Double Entry.
    Freehold Premises
    Debit and Credit
    Plant and equipment
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  • The job of recording all the entries of a business in its records.
    Accruals
    Bookkeeping
    Inventory
    Overheads
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  • Things which a company owns that have a long-term value. Examples are buildings, motor vehicles, and machines.
    Current Liabilities
    Prepayments
    Fixed Assets
    Freehold premises
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  • ______________ means a building (or a number of buildings) that are owned by a company.
    Sites
    Freehold Premises
    Assets
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  • ____________ are monies owed TO a business BY its customers.
    Inventory
    Cash loan
    Accounts Receivable
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  • A _______________ is when a company pays for something, but doesn’t use it for a while. Because it doesn’t use it, it keeps its value and so it is a Current Asset.
    advance
    expenditure
    prepayment
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  • _____ is where a company has a negative amount of money in its bank account. Usually, this is agreed with the bank in advance and there is a limit to the amount. This overdraft is a Current Liability.
    Bank statement
    Bank Overdraft
    Bank Loan
    Bank turnover
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  • _____ is shown in the Income Statement as the calculation of Sales minus Cost of Sales. Clearly, every business needs its Sales to be greater than its Cost of Sales.
    Gross Revenue
    Overall Liability
    Gross Profit
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  • ____________are the extra costs of running a business. Examples; insurance, power costs, bank interest payable, administration wages
    Overdraft
    Ledger
    Overheads
    Prepayments
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  • The _____ of famous sports agency Zamora PLC were published today and made headline news.
    Assets
    Overdraft
    Financial Statements
    Bookkeeping
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  • Turnover was up by 12% to £14.5m and ___________ rose by 17% to £4.6m.
    Double entry
    Assets
    Net profit
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