ACC120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Balance Sheet, Income Statement, The Sequence
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This account is the amount the customers owe the business: inventory is an asset account used when a business sells products to customers. The sequence of assets falls in order of liquidity (ease of converting. Cash is the most liquid asset, followed by accounts. Liabilities are arranged in the same fashion, with accounts payable first for example, shortest loans first, followed by long term. Equity is the net worth of the business, after all assets have been sold and all liabilities paid for. Different businesses have different classifications for whom this equity belongs to: in a proprietary business (owned by a single person), it is referred as. Owner"s equity: in a partnership business, it is referred as pa(cid:396)tne(cid:396)s" equity, in a corporation business, it is referred to as shareholders" equity. Accounting: some government institutions refer to it as accumulated surplus or. At the end of the accounting period, the ending owners equity can be calculated by the following: