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balance sheet equation - Answer assets = liabilities + equity
Assets - Answer what the business owns
Assets Rules - Answer 1.) Things the business controls
2.) From a past event
3.) Will generate future economic benefit
current assets - Answer assets that will be turned into cash or used up within a year
ex. cash, accounts receivable, prepayments
long term assets - Answer assets that will be turned into cash or used up within a period
longer than a year
ex. PPE, trucks
Liabilities - Answer What the business owes to others (debts)
liabilities rules - Answer 1.) Present obligation
2.) Based on past events
3.) Leading to an outflow of money
current liabilities - Answer liability that must be settled within a year
ex. accounts payable, salaries payable
long term liabilities - Answer liabilities that need not be settled for at least a year
ex. bonds, other long term debt
equity - Answer what's left for the owners from the assets once all the liabilities have been