Match the Following Terms with the Appropriate Definition

question 113

Short Answer

Match the following terms with the appropriate definition.
A. Accrued expenses
B. Adjusting entry
C. Adjusted trial balance
D. Prepaid expenses
E. Report form balance sheet
F. Accounting period
G. Contra account
H. Profit margin
I. Unadjusted trial balance
J. Natural business year
_____ 1. A 12-month period, used by companies with seasonal variation, that ends when a company's sales activities are at their lowest point.
_____ 2. A journal entry made at the end of an accounting period to reflect a transaction or event that is not yet recorded; affects one or more income statement account and one or more balance sheet account, but never cash.
_____ 3. An account linked with another account and having an opposite normal balance.
4. Items paid for in advance of receiving their benefits; recorded as an asset when purchased and expensed when used.
_____ 5. Any length of time that an organization's activities are divided into and reported by financial statements.
_____ 6. A listing of accounts and balances prepared after adjustments are recorded and posted to the ledger.
7. A balance sheet that lists items vertically in the order of assets, liabilities and equity.
8. Costs that are incurred in a period but are both unpaid and unrecorded, requiring an adjustment at the end of the period.
_____ 9. A listing of accounts and balances prepared after external transactions are recorded but before adjustments are recorded.
_____ 10. A useful measure of a company's operating results determined by dividing net income by net sales.

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Definitions:

Conventional CAPM

The traditional Capital Asset Pricing Model that calculates the expected return on an investment by assessing risk relative to the market as a whole.

Human Capital

The economic value of an individual’s skills, knowledge, and experience, considered in relation to their contributions to an economy or business.

Market Proxy

Market Proxy is a representative element, such as a stock index, that is used to approximate the behavior or characteristics of the overall market.

True Market Portfolio

An idealized portfolio that includes all available assets in all global financial markets, proportionally weighted by their total market value.