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Accounting - ✔✔A system of maintaining records of a company's operations and
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communicating that information to decision makers. || || || || ||
Financial Accounting (What the book is focused on) - ✔✔Measurement of business
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activities of a company and communication of those measurements to external parties
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for decision-making purposes
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Investors and Creditors - ✔✔- Buy ownership in the company and have the right to
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share in the company's profits
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-Lend money to a company, expecting to be paid back the loan amount plus interest.
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Financing activities - ✔✔Transactions a company has with investors and creditors.
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Includes cash transactions with lenders such as borrowing money and repaying debt,
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and issuing stock and paying dividends.
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Investing Activities - ✔✔Transactions involving the purchase and sale of resources
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that are expected to benefit the company for several years.
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Operating Activities - ✔✔transactions that relate to the primary operations of the
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company. Cash receipts and cash payments for revenues and expense activities.
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Accounting equation - ✔✔Assets = Liabilities + Stockholders Equity
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, revenues and expenses - ✔✔-The amount recognized when the companies sell
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products or provides services to customers.
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- The costs of providing services and products and other business activities during the
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Net Income - ✔✔the difference between total revenue and total expenses when total
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revenue is greater || ||
net loss - ✔✔The difference between total revenue and total expenses when total
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expenses are greater || ||
Dividends - ✔✔Distributions to stockholders, typically in the form of cash. NOT A
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EXPENSE
Financial Statements - ✔✔Periodic reports published by the company for the purpose
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of providing information to external users. (Balance sheet, Income Statement,
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Statement of stockholders equity, Statement of cash flows.)
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Income Statement - ✔✔A financial statement that reports the company's revenues and
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expenses over an interval of time. Also report Net loss or Net income.
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Statement of Stockholders equity - ✔✔A financial statement that summarizes the
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changes in stockholders' equity over time. has three categories: Common Stock,
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Retained Earnings, and then Total Stockholders equity.
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common stock - ✔✔Amounts invested by stockholders when they purchase shares of
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stock; external source of equity.
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