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FREE ACCOUNTING AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT FINANCIAL
ACCOUNTING EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: accounts
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detailed information about the elements is maintained in records
Question 2: asset source transaction
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increases the business's assets (cash) and its stockholders' equity (common stock)
Question 3: liabilities
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obligations a business has to its creditors
Question 4: labor resources
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intellectual and physical labor
Question 5: common stock
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specific commitments made to the investors are described in certificates
Question 6: international accounting standards board (iasb)
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address the need for a common set of financial standards - international financial reporting standards (ifrs)
Question 7: managerial accounting
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provide accounting information to internal users
Question 8: asset use transactions
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decrease the total amount of assets and the total amount of claims on assets (liabilities or stockholders' equity)
Question 9: stockholders
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terms investors
Question 10: assets
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the resources controlled by a business
Question 11: financial resources
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money
Question 12: retained earnings
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increase in the business's commitments to its stockholders
Question 13: going concern
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assumes that a business is able to continue its operations into the foreseeable future
Question 14: asset exchange transaction
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amount of total assets is not affected
Question 15: stakeholders
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the many users of accounting information
Question 16: creditors
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lend financial resources to businesses
Question 17: profit (income or earnings)
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added value created in the transformation process
Question 18: financial accounting standards board (fasb)
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privately funded organization with primary authority for establishing accounting standards in the u.s.
Question 19: not-for-profit entities
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organizations that are not motivated by profit
Question 20: revenue
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economic benefit a company obtains by providing costumers with goods and services
Question 21: physical resources
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natural resourses
Question 22: stockholders' equity
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business' commitment to the stockholders
Question 23: liquidation
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the process by which, if a business ceases to operate, its remaining assets are sold and the sale proceeds are returned to the creditors and investors
Question 24: financial accounting
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provide accounting information to external users
Question 25: generally accepted accounting principles (gaap)
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measurement rules established by the fasb
Question 26: accounting
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an information system that reports on the economic activities and financial condition of a business or other organization
Question 27: accounting equation
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relationship between a business's asset and the claims on its assets is frequently expressed in an equality
Question 28: double-entry bookkeeping
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all transactions affect the accounting equation in at least two places