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Accounting Vocabulary Online Quiz

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Number of Questions: 25
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The series of accounting activities included in recording financial info, for a fiscal period

  1. Accounting cycle

  2. Post-closing trial balance

  3. Voucher

  4. Check register


Correct Option: A

Journal entries used to prepare temporary accounts for a new fiscal period

  1. Adjusting Entries

  2. dividends

  3. Closing entries

  4. Pac-Man


Correct Option: C

Earnings distributed to stockholders are called

  1. Income statement

  2. Capital stock

  3. Retained earnings

  4. Dividends


Correct Option: D

Total shares of ownership in a corporation is called retained earings

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B

Assets that will be used for a number of years in the operation of a business

  1. Plant assets

  2. Frozen assets

  3. Exponetial Assets

  4. Pi


Correct Option: A

A list of customer accounts, account balances, and total amount due from all customers

  1. Schedule of accounts payable

  2. schedule of accounts receivable

  3. Trial balance

  4. Work sheet


Correct Option: B

Perpetual inventory is the same thing as periodic inventory

  1. Yes

  2. No

  3. Maybe so

  4. .....


Correct Option: B

Gross profit is the amount of revenue before taxes

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A

An example of an indirect expense

  1. The cost of electricty

  2. Buying bigger building

  3. Cost of supplies

  4. Mandatory Fun


Correct Option: A

what is a length of time for which a business summarizes and reports financial information

  1. Accounting period cycle

  2. Calendar year

  3. Fiscal period

  4. Darth Vador


Correct Option: C

Electronic funds transfer all but what

  1. Checks

  2. Currency

  3. Credit

  4. Other paper document


Correct Option: C

A pay period is a period covered by a ________ salary payment

  1. Profit

  2. Salary

  3. Income

  4. Goldfish


Correct Option: B

The total amount earned by all employees for a pay period

  1. Salary

  2. Payroll taxes

  3. Pay period

  4. Payroll


Correct Option: D

The total amount earned by all employees for a pay period is called a salary

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B

The report that summarizes the cash and credit card sales of a point-of-sale terminal

  1. POS terminal

  2. Terminal summary

  3. Cash receipts

  4. Emoji


Correct Option: B

Sales discount is a sales discount on sales

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A

Source document prepared by the vendor showing the amount deducted for returns and allowances

  1. Credit memorandum

  2. Sales discount

  3. Cash discount

  4. debit memorandum


Correct Option: A

A deduction that a vendor allows on the invoice amount to encourage prompt payment

  1. Purchases discount

  2. Petty cash

  3. Cash discount

  4. ;P


Correct Option: C

Transferring transaction information from a journal entry to a ledger account

  1. Posting

  2. Ledger

  3. Special journal

  4. Asset


Correct Option: A

Departmental accounting system is a business that purchases and sells goods

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B

Arranging accounts in a general ledger, assigning account numbers, and keeping records current

  1. Controlling account

  2. General ledger

  3. Subsidiary ledger

  4. File maintenance


Correct Option: D

A record summarizing all the information pertaining to a single item in the accounting equation

  1. Journal

  2. Special journal

  3. Account

  4. Ledger


Correct Option: C

Information about business transaction is obtained from original business papers

  1. Accounting records

  2. Owners' equity

  3. Accounting equation

  4. Source documents


Correct Option: D

Financial rights to the assets of a business are called equities

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A

Anything with value is owned is called?

  1. Equities

  2. Asset

  3. Liability

  4. Profit


Correct Option: B
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