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Subject Index 
 
Property
   as asset, 37
   defined, 5
Proprietorship
   defined, 62
   overview compared to a
      partnership and corporation, 72
Public Company Accounting
      Oversight Board, 280, 368
Q
Qualities of financial information,
      281–282, 357
R
Recognition, 221
Report form balance sheet, 300
Relevance of information, 282, 357
Reliability of information, 282,
      357, 363
Realizable value
Reserves, 641
Resources used
   as expenses, 10
   to create wealth, 9, 34
Restructuring charges, 634
Retained earnings
   appropriations and
      restrictions, 599–600
   change in accounting principle
      and, 601
   deficit, 599
   defined, 557
   prior period adjustment and, 600
   statement of, 602
   transactions affecting, 601
Revenue
   confirming added value, 15
   confused with receiving cash, 118
   defined, 15, 116
   effect on owner’s equity, 189
   element of owner’s capital,
      411–412
   normal balance, 418
   recording rules, 429
Revenue recognition principle, 365
S
Secondary offerings, 545
Secret reserves, 562
Securities and Exchange Commission
      (SEC), 360, 368
Service potential, 38
Services, defined, 5
 
SFAS, see statement of financial
      accountings standards
Single entry, 94
Sole proprietorship,
      see proprietorship
Stable monetary unit assumption, 362
Stakeholders, defined, 223
Start-up costs, 562
Stated value stock, 555
Statement of cash flows, 307–310
   compared to other statements, 311,
      312, 316, 320
   defined, 307
Statement of changes in cash position,
      see statement of cash flows
Statement of earnings, see income
      statement
Statement of financial accountings
      standards, 360
Statement of financial condition,
      see balance sheet
Statement of operations, see income
      statement
Statement of owner’s equity
   compared to other financial
      statements, 311, 312, 316, 320
   defined, 293
   features of, 294
   illustration of articulation with
      balance sheet and income
      statement, 320
   preparation of, 295–296
Statement of position, see
      balance sheet
Statement of retained
      earnings, 602
Statement of stockholders’
      equity, 622–625
   defined, 622
   features of, 623–625
   illustrated, 623
Stock
   as ownership, 537
   authorized shares, 546
   bid/ask price, 546
   dividends, 591–595
   issuance procedures, 545–546
   issued shares, 546
   outstanding shares, 587
   premium, see paid-in capital in
      excess of par
   retirement, 590
   splits, 597–599
   subscription sales, 562–564
   types of, overview, 553–554
Stockholder, defined 539
Stockholders’ equity
   compared to proprietorship, 558
   defined, 552
   normal account balances, 571
   ownership dilution, 560
   transactions of, Learning Goals 29
      and 30
Subscriptions receivable,
      563–564
T
T account, 396
T account analysis, 455–464
Temporary differences, 643
Time period (periodicity)
      assumption, 362
Transactions
   analyzing cumulative effect
      of, 200–203
   analyzing with accounting
      equation, 99,100–132
   analyzing with diagrams, 99, 100–132
   analyzing with T accounts, 455–464
   asset always part of, 99–119
   classification, valuation, and
      timing, 219–220
   defined, 96
   exchange and non-exchange, 97
   external and internal, 97
   non-asset, 120–132
   recording in journal and ledger,
      Learning Goal 24
   six basic patterns of, 133
Treasurer, 540
Treasury stock
   balance sheet presentation, 588
   defined, 586
   transactions, 587–589
Trial balance   
   defined, 503
   financial statements from, 508
Trade payables, 154
Trade receivables, 153
Transfer agents, 546
U
Underwriting, 545
Unearned revenue
   defined, 127, 155
   fraud situation, 252
   illustrated, 126–128

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