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Financial Statements and the Accounting System
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1. The first step to get from transactions and events to financial statements is to identify
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neachtransaction from source documents.
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2. Preparation of a trial balance is the first step in processing a financial transaction.
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True False
3. Source documents identify and describe business transactions and are the basis for
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4. Items such as sales tickets, bank statements, checks, and purchase orders are examples of
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nabusiness's source documents.
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5. An account is a record of increases and decreases in a specific asset, liability, equity, revenue,
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norexpense item.
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6. A customer's promise to pay on credit is classified as an account payable by the seller.
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True False
7. Dividends paid to the stockholders are a business expense.
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True False
8. The purchase of land and buildings will generally be recorded in the same ledger account.
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True False
9. Unearned revenues are classified as liabilities.
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True False
10. Cash paid to stockholders by the business of a corporation and used for personal expenses,
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nshouldbe treated as an expense of the business.
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True False
11. When a company provides services for which cash will not be received until some future date,
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nthecompany should record the amount charged as accounts receivable.
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True False
12. A company's chart of accounts is a list of all the accounts used and includes an identification
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nnumberassigned to each account.n n n n
True False
13. An account's balance is the difference between the total debits and total credits for the
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naccount,including any beginning balance.
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True False
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14. The right side of an account is called the debit side.
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15. In a double-entry accounting system, the total dollar amount debited must always equal the
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totaldollar amount credited.
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16. Increases in liability accounts are recorded as debits.
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17. Debits increase asset and expense accounts.
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18. Credits always increase account balances.
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19. Crediting an expense account decreases it.
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20. A revenue account normally has a debit balance.
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21. Asset accounts are normally decreased by debits.
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22. Debit means increase and credit means decrease for all accounts.
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