enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Liability (financial accounting) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liability_(financial...

    In financial accounting, a liability is a quantity of value that a financial entity owes. More technically, it is value that an entity is expected to deliver in the future to satisfy a present obligation arising from past events. [1] The value delivered to settle a liability may be in the form of assets transferred or services performed.

  3. Financial accounting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_accounting

    This statement best demonstrates the basic accounting equation: Assets = Liabilities + Equity. The statement can be used to help show the financial position of a company because liability accounts are external claims on the firm's assets while equity accounts are internal claims on the firm's assets.

  4. Accounting equation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_equation

    The accounting equation plays a significant role as the foundation of the double-entry bookkeeping system. The primary aim of the double-entry system is to keep track of debits and credits and ensure that the sum of these always matches up to the company assets, a calculation carried out by the accounting equation.

  5. General ledger - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_ledger

    A general ledger may be maintained on paper, on a computer, or in the cloud. [2] A ledger account is created for each account in the chart of accounts for an organization and is classified into account categories, such as income, expense, assets, liabilities, and equity; the collection of all these accounts is known as the general ledger.

  6. Chart of accounts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart_of_accounts

    Liability accounts are used to recognize liabilities. A liability is a present obligation of an entity to transfer an economic benefit (CF E37). Common examples of liability accounts include accounts payable, deferred revenue, bank loans, bonds payable and lease obligations. Equity accounts are used to recognize ownership equity. The terms ...

  7. Balance sheet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_sheet

    In financial accounting, a balance sheet (also known as statement of financial position or statement of financial condition) is a summary of the financial balances of an individual or organization, whether it be a sole proprietorship, a business partnership, a corporation, private limited company or other organization such as government or not-for-profit entity.

  8. Balance (accounting) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_(accounting)

    In banking and accounting, the balance is the amount of money owed (or due) on an account. In bookkeeping, "balance" is the difference between the sum of debit entries and the sum of credit entries entered into an account during a financial period. [1] When total debits exceed the total credits, the account indicates a debit balance.

  9. Debits and credits - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debits_and_credits

    Likewise, in the liability account below, the X in the credit column denotes the increasing effect on the liability account balance (total credits less total debits), because a credit to a liability account is an increase. All "mini-ledgers" in this section show standard increasing attributes for the five elements of accounting.