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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.
    Liabilities
    Equipment
    Ownership
    Assets
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  • Money which a company owes to another company or person
    Expenditures
    Assets
    Liabilities
    Budget
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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.
    Statement
    Income 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
    Balance Sheet
    Current Assets
    Double entry
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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
    Double Entry
    Bank Overdraft
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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.
    Debit and Credit
    Plant and equipment
    Freehold Premises
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  • The job of recording all the entries of a business in its records.
    Inventory
    Bookkeeping
    Accruals
    Overheads
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  • Things which a company owns that have a long-term value. Examples are buildings, motor vehicles, and machines.
    Prepayments
    Current Liabilities
    Fixed Assets
    Freehold premises
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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.
    Cash loan
    Accounts Receivable
    Inventory
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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.
    prepayment
    advance
    expenditure
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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 turnover
    Bank statement
    Bank Loan
    Bank Overdraft
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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
    Ledger
    Overdraft
    Prepayments
    Overheads
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  • The _____ of famous sports agency Zamora PLC were published today and made headline news.
    Overdraft
    Financial Statements
    Assets
    Bookkeeping
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  • Turnover was up by 12% to £14.5m and ___________ rose by 17% to £4.6m.
    Assets
    Double entry
    Net profit
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