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Chapter
02 Financial Statements and the Accounting
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1. The first step to get from transactions and events to
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2. Preparation of a trial balance is the first step in processing a financial transaction.
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3. Source documents identify and describe business transactions and are the
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4. Items such as sales tickets, bank statements, checks, and purchase orders are
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5. An account is a record of increases and decreases in a specific asset, liability,
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6. A customer'spromise to pay on credit is classified as an account payable by the seller.
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7. Dividends paid to the stockholders M M M M M M M M M are a business expense. M M M M M
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8. The purchase of land and buildings will generally
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9. Unearnedrevenues are classified as liabilities.
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10. Cash paid to stockholders by the business of a corporation and used for personal
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11. When a company provides services for which cash will not be received until some
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12. A company's chart of accounts is a list of all the accounts used and includes an
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13. An account's balance is the difference between the total debits and total
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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
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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 increaseaccount balances.
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19. Crediting an expense account decreases it.
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20. A revenue
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21. Assetaccounts are normally decreased by debits.
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22. Debit means increase andcredit means decrease for all accounts.
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