ACCT 2013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Financial Statement, Matching Principle, General Ledger

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Organize data from journal entry so that you can see what happened to each account: posting. Process of transferring debit & credit info from journal to individual accounts in general ledger: general ledger. Provides in single location list of transaction affecting each account and the account"s balance. Recorded for each individual account info (pulled from journal entry) Include account title at top, left side= debit, right side= credit. List of all accounts & balances at particular date. Not required to follow order of listing. Revenue & expense reporting: revenue recognition. Revenue= recorded in period in which g/s= provided to customers: revenue recognition principle. Not necessarily period in which we receive cash : (<=> cash-basis: record when transaction involves cash ) (wait to record until actually receiving cash) Expense recognition when the cost= used to produce revenue. =reported in same period as revenues (<= matching principle ) Does not matter when the transaction & cash happen.

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