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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
    Liabilities
    Assets
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  • Money which a company owes to another company or person
    Expenditures
    Budget
    Assets
    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.
    Income statement
    Statement
    Overdraft
    Balance Sheet
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  • A Financial Statement which shows all the company’s sales and all of its costs, for a period of time.
    Income Statement
    Double entry
    Balance Sheet
    Current Assets
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  • The accounting system used all over the world which records every transaction twice, as a Debit and a Credit.
    Fixtures and fittings
    Bank Overdraft
    Double Entry
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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.
    Inventory
    Overheads
    Bookkeeping
    Accruals
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  • Things which a company owns that have a long-term value. Examples are buildings, motor vehicles, and machines.
    Prepayments
    Freehold premises
    Fixed Assets
    Current Liabilities
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  • ______________ means a building (or a number of buildings) that are owned by a company.
    Assets
    Sites
    Freehold Premises
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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.
    expenditure
    prepayment
    advance
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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 Profit
    Gross Revenue
    Overall Liability
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  • ____________are the extra costs of running a business. Examples; insurance, power costs, bank interest payable, administration wages
    Overheads
    Ledger
    Overdraft
    Prepayments
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  • The _____ of famous sports agency Zamora PLC were published today and made headline news.
    Financial Statements
    Assets
    Overdraft
    Bookkeeping
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  • Turnover was up by 12% to £14.5m and ___________ rose by 17% to £4.6m.
    Double entry
    Net profit
    Assets
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