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VocabularyDate: 2015-10-07; view: 374. ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Unit 13 bookkeeping writing down the details of transactions (debits and credits) accounting keeping financial records, recording income and expenditure, valuing assets and liabilities, and so on historical cost the price paid for an asset when it was bought, rather than what it is worth now asset something belonging to an individualor a business that has value or the power to earn money liability an amount of money owed by a business to a supplier, lender etc managerial accounting preparing budgets and other financial reports necessary for management cost accounting working out the unit cost of products, including materials, labour and all other expenses replacement cost the cost of buying an asset now, rather than the price that was paid for it in the past tax accounting calculating an individual's or a company's liability for tax auditing inspection and evaluation of accounts by a second set of accountants 'creative accounting' using all available accounting procedures and tricks to disguise the true financial position of a company depreciation when the value of something goes down, usually gradually overheads a company's general costs for activities not related to particular products fixed assets something that a business owns and that it uses in order to produce goods, e.g. a piece of land, a building , or a piece of machinery net book value the value of an asset or a group of assets in a company's financial records after depreciation or revaluations financial statement a statement showing the financial state of a business, at the end of a particular period of time, including its balance sheet, profit and loss account, and other necessary information profit and loss account (GB) income statement (US) a financial statement showing the financial results of a company's normal activities for a particular period of time, usually the financial year expenditure the total amount of money that a government, organization or person spends during a particular period of time balance sheet a document showing a company's financial position and wealth at a particular time, often the last day of its financial year double-entry bookkeeping the accounting system in which each transaction is recorded twice, as a debit in one account and as a credit in another accounting equation one of the relationships between assets and liabilities used in accounting owner's (shareholder's) equity the difference between the value of a company's assets and its liabilities other than those to shareholders. In principle, this is what the company would be worth to shareholders if it stopped trading, its assets were sold and debts paid net assets the overall value of a business, the difference between its assets and its liabilities share capital capital that a company has from investors who have bought shares retained profit net profit for a particular period of time , or for several periods of time, that are not paid to shareholders in dividends market capitalization the total value of all the shares on a stockmarket at a particular time source and application of funds statement a particular form of the funds flow statement debenture (zero-interest bond) an interest-paying loan which may be traded on bond markets freehold property property which you own completely and for an unlimited time instalment one of a series of regular payments that are made until all of an agreed amount has been paid
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