Accounting Terms For Everyday
Find Here The Basic Accounting Terms that we used in our day to day life
Entity means a thing that has a definite individual existence.
Transaction: A event involving some value between two or
more entities.
Assets are
economic resources of an enterprise that can be usefully expressed in monetary
terms.
Liabilities
are obligations or debts that an enterprise has to pay at some time in the
future.
Amount
invested by the owner in the firm is known as capital.
Sales are total revenues from goods or services
sold or provided to customers.
These are the amounts of the business earned by
selling its products or providing services to customers, called sales revenue.
Costs incurred by a business in the process of
earning revenue are known as expenses.
Spending money or incurring a liability for
some benefit, service or property received is called expenditure.
The excess of revenues of a period over its
related expenses during an accounting year profit. Profit increases the investment of the
owners.
Gain: A
profit that arises from events or transactions which are incidental to business
such as sale of fixed assets, winning a court case, appreciation in the value
of an asset.
The excess of expenses of a period over its
related revenues its termed as loss. It decreases in owner’s equity.
Discount is the deduction in the price of the goods
sold. Trade Discount & Cash Discount.
The
documentary evidence in support of a transaction is known as voucher.
Goods
refers to the products in which the business units is dealing, i.e. in terms of
which it is buying and selling or producing and selling.
Withdrawal of money and/or goods by the owner
from the business for personal use is known as drawings.
Purchases are
total amount of goods procured by a business on credit and on cash, for use or
sale.
Stock (inventory) is
a measure of something on hand-goods, spares and other items in a business.
Debtors are
persons and/or other entities who owe to an enterprise an amount for buying
goods and services on credit.
Creditors are
persons and/or other entities who have to be paid by an enterprise an amount
for providing the enterprise goods and services on credit
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