ACCT 2001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: General Ledger, Accounting Equation, Dollar Sign

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Balance sheet: building a balance sheet from business activities, financing. To start a company, one must obtain financing. Two sources of financing: equity: obtained from owner"s contributions and reinvestment of profit, debt: obtained through loans, accounting through the lense of three important features of business, documents a business"s activities. Company receives and gives: exchange to earn profit or to obtain resources, create value through exchange. Cost principle: assets and liabilities should be initially recorded at their original cost to the company: transactions and other activities, transactions. Business activities that affect the accounting equation: two types of events. External exchanges: exchanges involved assets, liabilities, and/or stockholders" equity between the company and someone else. Accounts increase on the same side as they appear in a = l + se: asset increases on the left side of the account, liability and stockholders" equity increase on the right side of the account. Left is debit (dr) and right is credit (cr)

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