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No. English Farsi Pashto Subject
586 accounting cycle: the process required to prepare financial statements. Consists of a number of steps starting with recording transactions, summarizing and balancing the entries, and then transferring the amounts to create the financial statements. - - Accounting
587 account: a record of the increases and decreases for each item on the balance sheet. - - Accounting
588 verifiability: a qualitative characteristic of accounting information; it means that independent persons will produce the same results using the same methods. - - Accounting
589 unearned revenue: a liability that occurs when a customer pays in advance for a service or product. - - Accounting
590 understandability concept: a qualitative characteristic of accounting information; information should be clear and concise so that it is useful to reasonably informed users. - - Accounting
591 timeliness concept: the idea that accounting information should be made available to users while it can still inform decisions. - - Accounting
592 statement of owner's equity: a financial statement that shows the changes in owner's equity over a specific period of time. - - Accounting
593 revenues: The result of business activities performed to earn a profit (e.g. selling inventory, performing services). Revenue increases assets or decreases liabilities, and increases owner's equity. - - Accounting
594 reporting entity concept: accounting for the activities of a business should be separate from the accounting activities of its owner and all other related businesses. - - Accounting
595 relevance: a qualitative characteristic of accounting information that it will have an impact on decisions. - - Accounting
596 profit: the amount remaining when revenues exceed expenses; increases owner's equity. - - Accounting
597 prepaid expense: an asset that arises from paying for products and/or services in advance of being used (e.g. rent, insurance, supplies). - - Accounting
598 periodicity concept: dividing economic activity into specific periods of time (e.g. month, year) to facilitate preparation of the financial statements. - - Accounting
599 owner's equity: the ownership claim on a company that is equal to the net assets in the company; from the accounting equation--Assets - Liabilities = Owner's Equity. - - Accounting
600 note payable: a liability that has a note specifying the amount to be paid at a specific future date. Usually specifies an associated interest rate. - - Accounting