CHAPTER 1
Assets: things owned by a business which carried a value,they can be considered as economic resources, providing benefits to the business.
Liabilities: amount owed by a business to various parties, they can be considered as debts or obligations owned by the business to outside bodies.
Posting: recording trasactions and entering accounts are often called “posting”.
A trail balance: is therefore defined as a list of balances of ledger accounts worked out periodically to test the calculation accuracy of account.
---------every account in the ledger is labelled (with debit or credit )
---------the items can come in any order
---------when the debit balance agree with the credit balances, it confirm
that there has been a debit entry for every credit entry in the
posting of the account
---------it is an interim summary of the information shown by the
account,it should carry date.
---------the main difference between trial balance statements and balance
sheets is that in the trial balance, all accounts in the ledger are