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Abbreviated accounts (UK)
Above par
Above the line
Abridged accounts (UK)
Abstract of accounts
Accelerated cost recovery system (ACRS) (US)
Accelerated depreciation
Accommodation charges
Account
Account (v.) for
Account code
Account form (US)
Account form of statement (US)
Accountancy
Accountant
Accountant's liability
Accountant's responsibility
Accounting
Accounting (adj.)
Accounting basis
Accounting change
Accounting concepts
Accounting convention
Accounting cushion
Accounting cycle
Accounting entity
Accounting equation
Accounting estimate
Accounting event
Accounting firm
Accounting for inflation
Accounting period
Accounting plan
Accounting policies
Accounting policy
Accounting practice
Accounting principles
Accounting records
Accounting standard
Accounting standard-setting body
Accounting system
Accounting system set-up
Accounting treatment
Accounting year
Accounts of a company
Accounts payable
Accounts payable master file
Accounts payable subsidiary ledger
Accounts receivable
Accounts receivable master file
Accounts receivable subsidiary ledger
Accretion
Accrual
Accrual (charge)
Accrual (revenue)
Accrual basis of accounting
Accrual basis principle
Accruals
Accruals principle
Accrued assets
Accrued expenses
Accrued income
Accrued interest
Accrued liabilities
Accumulated depreciation
Accumulated dividends
Acid test ratio (or Quick ratio)
Acknowledgement of receipt
Acquired goodwill
Acquired surplus
Acquisition
Acquisition cost
Acquisition of holdings
Actual cost
Actual value
Actuals
Added value
Additional paid-in capital (US)
Adequate disclosure
Adjusted trial balance
Adjusting entry
Adjusting events
Adjusting journal entry
Adjustment
Adjustment account
Administrative expenses
Advance
Advance payment
Advances
Advances and payments on account
Advertising expenses
Affiliated company
After-closing trial balance
Agency fund
Aggregation
Allocation (of costs)
Allocation (to a provision)
Allotment (shares)
Allotted shares
Allowable
Allowable capital loss
Allowance
Allowance for bad debts
Allowance for risk
Allowance for uncollectible accounts
Allowance method
All-purpose financial statements
Alternative accounting rules (UK)
Amortizable amount
Amortization (intangible assets or deferred charges)
Amortization of debt
Amortization period
Amortization table
Amortize (v.)
Amortizing loan
Amount
Ancillary costs
Annual closing
Annual financial statements
Annual report
Annualize (v.)
Annuity
Annuity due
Annuity in advance
Annuity in arrears
Application for shares
Application rights
Apportion (v.)
Apportionment
Appraisal capital
Appraise (v.)
Appreciation
Appropriated retained earnings
Appropriation
Appropriation to the reserve
Approved accounts
Arrears
Assess (v.)
Assessable capital stock
Assessment
Asset (s)
Asset depreciation range (ADR) (US)
Asset-liability approach
Assets in course of construction (FPC)
Assignment of account
Assignment of accounts receivable
Assignment of debt
Associate
Associated company (UK)
Associated undertaking
At cost
Attestation
Attributable
Authorized capital
Authorized capital stock
Automatic deduction (US)
Average cost
Back charge
Backing
Backlog
Backlog depreciation
Bad debt
Bad debt expense
Bad debt recovery
Bad loan
Badwill
Bail
Bailment
Balance
Balance (v.)
Balance (v.) an account
Balance due
Balance in cash
Balance of accounts
Balance of retained earnings
Balance sheet
Balance sheet account
Balance sheet date
Balance sheet item
Balance sheet total
Balancing entry
Balancing figure
Bank account
Bank balance
Bank borrowings
Bank charges
Bank deposit
Bank float
Bank indebtedness
Bank loans
Bank reconciliation
Bank services
Bank statement
Banker's order (UK)
Banker's transfer
Base
Base period
Basis of accounting
Be (v.) equity accounted
Bear (v.) interest
Before tax
Beginning inventory
Beginning on or after
Beginning stock
Below the line
Benchmark
Benefit
Benefits
Benefits in kind
Bill
Bill (v.)
Bill of costs
Billing schedule
Billings
Billings on a long term contract
Bills payable
Bills receivable
Blank cheque
Blind entry
Bond
Bond (v.)
Bonus dividend
Bonus issue (UK)
Book (v.)
Book (v.) an entry
Book balance
Book entry
Book inventory
Book value
Booking date
Bookkeeping
Bookkeeping voucher
Books
Books of accounts
Borrowing costs
Borrowing facilities
Borrowings
Bottom line
Bought ledger (US)
Branch
Branch accounting
Brand license
Break-up value
Bring (v.) forward
Brokerage
Brokerage costs
Brokerage fees
Brought down
Brought forward
Building
Building land
Building occupancy expenses
Building plot
Business combination
Business name
Business premises
Business segment
Business trading year
Calendar year
Call
Call for capital
Call for funds
Call option
Call premium
Called up capital
Cancel supporting documents
Cap
Capital
Capital account
Capital assets
Capital contribution
Capital expenditure
Capital gain
Capital impairment
Capital increase
Capital invested
Capital lease (US)
Capital loss
Capital outstanding
Capital redemption reserve (UK)
Capital reduction
Capital reserves (UK)
Capital stock
Capital structure
Capital surplus (US)
Capitalization
Capitalization of borrowing costs
Capitalization of interests
Capitalization of reserves
Capitalize (v.)
Capitalized value
Carriage inwards
Carriage outwards
Carried down
Carried forward
Carry (v.) back
Carry (v.) forward
Carry back
Carrying amount
Carrying value
Cash
Cash (v.) a check
Cash assets
Cash at bank or in hand
Cash basis of accounting
Cash book
Cash disbursement journal
Cash discount
Cash equivalent
Cash float
Cash flow
Cash flow statement
Cash in hand
Cash inflow
Cash on hand
Cash outflow
Cash payments journal
Cash position
Cash proceeds
Cash receipts and cash payments
Cash receipts journal
Cash receipts journal/cash payment journal
Cash statement
Cashbook
Caution
Cease (v.) trading
Ceiling (net realizable value)
Change (foreign currency)
Change in accounting estimate
Change in accounting policy
Change in accounting principle
Change in financial position
Changes in equity statement
Changes in inventories
Changes in stocks (UK)
Charge (v.) to an account
Charge to (v.)
Chargeable
Charges to be written off or allocated over several periods
Charging to
Chart of accounts
Chattel
Check specimen
Check stub
Checklist
Cheque (UK)
Circulating assets
Classification
Classified balance sheet
Clearing account
Close (v.) an account
Close (v.) the accounts
Closed account
Closing
Closing entries
Closing of the accounts
Closing price
Closing rate method (translation of foreign currency)
Closing-rate method
Coding of accounts
Collar
Collateral
Collateralize (v.)
Collect (v.)
Collection
Collection costs
Combined accounts
Combined company
Combined financial statements
Combining company
Combining of accounts
Commercial paper
Commission
Commitment
Commodity
Common size financial statements
Company's assets
Comparability
Comparableness
Comparative amounts
Comparative figures
Comparative financial statements
Comparative information
Comparative statement
Comparative statements
Compensation for directors (US)
Compilation
Completed contract method
Completed sales basis
Completion
Compliance
Component
Compound entry
Comprehensive basis of accounting
Comprehensive income
Computerized accounting records
Computerized accounting system
Conceptual framework (accounting standard)
Condensed financial statements
Conservatism principle
Conservative (estimate)
Consideration
Consistency
Consistently
Consolidated accounts
Consolidated balance sheet
Consolidated financial statements
Consolidated goodwill
Consolidation
Consolidation (US)
Consolidation adjustments
Consolidation area
Consolidation difference
Construction
Construction work in progress
Consumable materials and supplies
Consumables
Contested claim
Contingencies
Contingency
Contingency fund
Contingent asset
Contingent gain
Contingent liability
Contingent loss
Contingent reserve
Continuity
Continuity schedule
Continuous inventory
Continuous stocktaking
Contra account
Contractual payment
Contributed capital
Contributed capital in excess of par (US)
Contribution
Contribution in kind
Control
Control account
Controlling account
Controlling interest
Convention
Conversion
Conversion rate
Copyrights
Corporate expenses
Corporate profits
Corporate tax (UK)
Corporate taxes (US)
Corporation (income) tax (UK)
Cost
Cost formula
Cost method
Cost method of accounting for investments in stocks
Cost of goods purchased
Cost of goods sold
Cost of sales
Cost principle
Cost to cost method
Count sheet
Counterfoil
Counterpart entries
Credit
Credit (v.)
Credit account
Credit balance
Credit entry
Credit memorandum
Credit note
Credit term
Creditor
Creditor account
Cross holding
Cross-ownership
Cumulative
Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle
Currency
Currency (exchange) rate
Currency exchange
Current account
Current assets (to be converted in cash within a year)
Current cost
Current cost accounting
Current expenditures
Current liabilities
Current liabilities (expected to be paid within a year)
Current period
Current portion
Current price
Current rate method (translation of foreign currency)
Current value
Current-noncurrent method (translation of foreign currency)
Current-value accounting
Custom duties
Customs value
Cut-off
Cut-off date
Cut-off procedures
Date of record
Day book
Dead account
Deadline
Dealing
Debenture loan
Debentures
Debit
Debit account
Debit balance
Debit entry
Debit note
Debt
Debt due
Debtor
Debtor account
Debtors (UK)
Declining-balance depreciation method
Deduct (v.)
Deduction
Default to pay
Defaulting debtor
Defeasance
Deferment
Deferral (charge)
Deferral (revenue)
Deferral accounting
Deferral method of tax allocation
Deferrals
Deferred charge
Deferred cost
Deferred credit
Deferred income
Deferred income tax
Deferred income tax benefit
Deferred income tax charge
Deferred income tax credit
Deferred income tax debit
Deferred income tax expense
Deferred income tax liability
Deferred revenue
Deficit
Degressive taxation
Delivery basis (of revenue recognition)
Demand deposit
Depletion
Depletion allowance
Deposit
Deposits in transit (bank reconciliation)
Depreciable asset
Depreciable life
Depreciate (v.)
Depreciation
Depreciation (tangible assets)
Depreciation allowance
Depreciation and provisions
Depreciation base
Depreciation charges
Depreciation on a declining balance
Depreciation policy
Depreciation rate
Depreciation schedule
Derecognition (assets or liabilities)
Derivative instrument
Designation
Detail account
Development costs
Development expenses
Difference of exchange
Direct debit
Direct deposit
Direct financing lease (US)
Direct fund transfer
Direct posting
Direct write-off method
Director's fees (UK)
Disclose (v.)
Disclosure
Disclosure standards
Discontinued operations
Discount
Discount (v.)
Discount charges
Discount factor
Discount rate
Discounted notes
Disposal
Disposal (assets)
Disposal value
Dissimilar activities (previous rules)
Distributable profit
Distribution costs
Distribution of dividends
Divestment
Dividend exclusion (US)
Dividends
Dividends on share
Do (v.) the stocktaking
Dominant influence
Double declining balance (method of depreciation)
Double entry
Double entry accounting
Double entry book-keeping
Down payment
Draft
Draft financial statements
Drawing up (of accounts)
Drawings (by owner of unincorporated business)
Drop in value
Duties
Earnest money
Earnings
Economic life
Economic substance
Effective interest rate
Eliminating entries (consolidation)
Eliminations (consolidation)
Employee profit sharing
Ending inventory
Enter (v.) into the accounts
Entertaining
Entertainment expenses
Entry
Entry value
Equalization payment
Equipment
Equities
Equity
Equity accounting
Equity capital
Equity holder
Equity issue
Equity method
Escrow account
Establishment
Estimated liability
Estimated value
Evaluate (v.)
Events after the balance sheet date
Exceptional
Exceptional items
Exceptional result
Exchange (foreign currency)
Exchange cover
Exchange gain
Exchange loss
Exchange rate
Exchange rates
Exchange transaction
Exclusion of subsidiaries from consolidation
Exclusive of VAT
Executory costs
Expenditure
Expenditure item
Expense
Expense (v.) (US)
Expense account
Expense accounts
Expense advance
Expense recognition
Expenses
Expiration date
Expired cost
Expiry
Expiry date
Explanation of an entry
Explanatory notes
Extraordinary
Extraordinary items
Extraordinary repairs
Face amount
Face value
Facilities
Facilities for payment
Fair (market) value
Fair presentation
Fair value
Fair wear and tear
Fairly
Fairness
Fall (v.) due
Fees
Fellow subsidiary
Fictitious assets
Fictitious dividends
Finance costs
Finance lease
Financial accounting
Financial accounts
Financial assets
Financial commitments
Financial expenses
Financial futures
Financial income
Financial instrument
Financial lease
Financial position form of balance sheet
Financial reporting
Financial statements
Financial year (UK)
Financing Activities
Fine
Finished goods
First in first out (FIFO)
Fiscal
Fiscal year (US)
Fittings
Fixed assets
Fixed assets master file
Fixed charges
Fixture
Fixtures and fittings
Float
Float (v.) (loan or shares)
Float (v.) a company
Float (v.) a share issue
Float (v.) bonds
Flotation
Flow-through method
Foreign currency transactions
Foreign currency translation
Foreign exchange
Foreign exchange assets
Foreign exchange difference
Forfeit payment
Format
Formation expenses
Forward contract
Forward market
Forward sale
Forwarding
Forwarding agent
Forwarding charges
Free of customs duties
Freight-in
Freight-out
Front money
Front-end load
Full consolidation
Full disclosure principle
Functional classification (of costs)
Functional currency
Funding
Funds
Funds statement
Fungible goods
Fungibles
Furniture
Future
Futures contract
Futures market
Futures option
Futures price
Futures rate agreement (FRA)
G & A (General and Administrative expenses)
GAAP (Generally accepted accounting principles)
Gear
General and Administrative expenses (G & A)
General contingency reserve
General journal
General ledger
General purpose financial statements
Global integration
Going concern
Going concern assumption
Going concern principle
Going concern value
Goods and services
Goods for resale
Goods in progress
Goods in transit
Goods on consignment
Goods-bought ledger (US)
Goods-sold ledger
Goodwill
Government grant
Grant
Gross amount
Gross profit
Gross profit method
Gross sales
Gross up (v.)
Group accounts
Group depreciation
Guarantee deposits
Half-year convention (US)
Half-year rule (US)
Heading
Heading (balance sheet)
Hedging
Hedging instrument
Hidden asset
Hidden reserve
Hire and rental charges
Hire purchase and leasing charges
Historical cost
Historical cost accounting
Historical cost concept
Historical exchange rate
Historical-cost convention
Holdback
Holding company
Holding gain
Holding loss
Holding of shares
Holiday pay (UK)
Horizontal form (balance sheet)
Impairment
Implied renewal
Imprest
In arrears
In suspense
In transit
Incidental
Incidental expense
Income
Income (UK)
Income accounts
Income for services
Income from sales
Income realization
Income statement (US)
Income tax
Income tax allocation
Income tax receivable
Incorporation expenses
Increase in value
Increase of share capital
Individual financial statements
Industrial buildings
Inflows and outflows
Inherent goodwill
Initial outlay
Input tax (TVA)
Instrument
In-substance defeasance
Insurance
Insurance benefit
Insurance premium
Intangible assets
Intellectual property
Interchangeable
Intercompany account
Intercompany holding
Intercompany profit
Intercompany transaction
Interest expenses
Interest income
Interest rate
Interests on overdue payments
Interim closing
Interim dividend
Interim financial information
Interim financial statement
Interperiod income tax allocation
Intraperiod tax allocation
Inventoriable cost
Inventory
Inventory (US)
Inventory (v.)
Inventory in transit
Inventory reserve
Inventory valuation
Investing activities
Investment
Investment allowances
Investment income
Investment securities
Investment stock
Investments
Irrecoverable
Issuance
Issue
Issue (v.)
Item
Itemized account
Joint stock
Joint ventures
Journal
Journal entry
Journalize (v.)
Land
Land development
Land improvement
Land tax
Lapsing schedule (US)
Last in first out (LIFO)
Late charge
Late filing
Late payment
Lavish expenditures
Lay off (v.)
Layoff pay
Lay-offs
Lease
Lease (v.)
Lease liability
Lease with purchase option
Leaseback
Leasehold premiums
Legal charges
Legal claim
Legal reserve
Legally required reserve
Lessee
Lessor
Let (v.)
Letting value
Level of precision
Leveraged lease
Liabilities
Liability
Liability method of tax allocation
Lifetime (asset)
Line item (in the financial statements)
Line of business
Line of business reporting
Line-by line consolidation
Linked presentation
Liquid assets
Liquid funds
Liquidate
Liquidation balance sheet
Loan
Loan capital
Loan on collateral
Loan principal
Loans to group undertakings (UK)
Local taxation
Long-term assets
Long-term contract
Long-term debt
Long-term lease
Long-term liabilities
Loss
Loss carryback
Loss carryforward
Loss carry-over
Lower of cost or market (LCM)
Lower of cost or market rule
Machinery and equipment
Maintenance
Major maintenance
Major repairs
Majority interest
Management fees
Mandatory disclosures
Manpower
Manufacturing costs of finished goods
Margin of profit
Marketable
Match marking (accounts)
Matching
Matching (of costs and revenues)
Matching of payments and invoices
Matching principle
Material (adj.)
Materiality principle
Materials
Maturity date
Measurement basis
Merchandise
Merger
Merger accounting
Merger bonus
Merger premium
Mergers and acquisitions
Minorities
Minority holding
Minority interest
Miscellaneous expenses
Misleading
Modified accelerated cost recovery (MACR) (US)
Monetary assets
Monetary items
Monetary liabilities
Monetary measurement convention
Monetary value
Monetary-non monetary method (translation of foreign currency)
Monthly closing
Movable
Movable property
Movables
Moving average inventory method
Multiple step income statement
Name
Name of an account
Natural classification (of costs)
Negative goodwill
Negative shareholders' equity
Net asset
Net book value (NBV)
Net dividend (tax credit excluded)
Net earnings
Net price method
Net proceeds
Net profit
Net realizable value
Net result
Net sales
Net worth
Netting
Next in first out (NIFO)
Nominal accounts
Nominal amount
Non adjusting event
Non-assessable
Non-cash items (income statement)
Non-compliance
Non-consolidated subsidiary
Non-current assets
Non-current liabilities
Non-current receivables
Non-operating expenses
Non-profit
Non-recurring
Normal balance
Not applicable (N/A)
Note disclosure
Note of expenses
Notes payable
Notes receivable
Notes to financial statements
Notes to the accounts (UK)
Notice of correction
Notice of reassessment
Notice to pay
NSF (not sufficient funds) check
Occupancy expenses
Off balance sheet
Off balance sheet assets
Off balance sheet commitments
Off balance sheet finance (OBSF)
Off balance sheet liabilities
Office account
Office equipment
Office supplies
Offset account
Offsetting
On a consistent basis
Ongoing
Opening balance
Opening balance sheet
Opening inventory
Opening stock (UK)
Operating activities
Operating capacity
Operating capital maintenance concept
Operating costs
Operating expenditures
Operating expenses
Operating income
Operating lease
Operational lease
Opinion
Ordinary maintenance
Organization costs
Original cost
Original value
Originating timing difference
Outgo
Outgoings
Outlay
Outlay of cash
Outsource (v.)
Outstanding
Outstanding (checks, shares or stock)
Outstanding checks
Outstanding debt
Outstanding deposits
Outstanding interests
Outstanding payments
Outstanding stock
Overdraft
Overdrafts
Overdraw (v.) an account
Overdrawn
Overdue
Over-estimate
Overestimate (v.)
Overhead (US)
Own resources
Own statements of account
Owner's equity
Paid in checks
Paid-in capital
Paid-in surplus (US)
Paid-up capital
Paid-up shares
Par value
Parcel of land
Parent company
Parity
Partial tax allocation
Participating interest
Particulars
Partly paid shares
Partnership
Past due
Patent
Pay (v.) a deposit
Pay (v.) off
Pay (v.) on account
Pay in kind
Payability
Payable
Payable at sight
Payables
Payment
Payment facilities
Payment in advance
Payment on account
Payroll costs
Payroll journal
Payroll ledger
Payroll register
Payroll taxes
Penalty interest
Pending
Pending account
Pension
Pension expense
Pension fund
Pension funds contributions
Pension liabilities
Percentage of completion method
Percentage statements
Performance bond
Period
Period comparisons
Period costs
Period of account
Periodic disclosure
Periodic inventory
Periodical situations
Permanent assets
Permanent decline in value
Permanent differences
Permanent diminution in value
Perpetual inventory
Personal account
Personal income tax
Personal property
Petty cash
Petty cash register
Petty cash voucher
Piece of ground
Plant and equipment
Plant ledger
Pledge (v.) as security
Pledging of receivables
Pooling of interests [consolidation]
Portfolio (shares)
Portfolio investment
Post (v.)
Post (v.) an entry
Post balance sheet event
Post office bank account
Postage
Post-closing trial balance
Posting (of an entry)
Posting date
Practice
Preferred share
Premises
Premium
Pre-operating expenses
Prepaid expenses
Prepayment
Prepayments
Primary statement
Prime documents
Principal
Principle
Principle of materiality
Prior
Prior period
Prior period adjustment
Prior year
Prior year adjustment
Pro forma financial statements
Pro forma invoice
Pro rata
Proceeds from sales
Proceeds of insurance
Procurement
Product line
Professional development (PD)
Professional fees
Professional training
Professional training for adults
Profit
Profit and loss account (UK)
Profit and loss statement (P&L)
Profit from operating activities
Profit sharing
Proforma accounts
Progress billing
Progress payment
Property
Property account
Property lease
Property ledger
Property tax
Proportion
Proportional consolidation
Proportional integration
Proportionate consolidation
Prorata temporis
Provision
Provision for bad debts
Provision for contingency
Provision for depreciation
Provision for liabilities
Provision of services
Provisions for depreciation of tangible assets
Provisions for loss in value of inventories (stocks :UK)
Provisions for loss in value of investments
Prudence concept
Published accounts
Purchase
Purchase day book
Purchase discounts
Purchase for future delivery
Purchase for settlement
Purchase for stock (UK)
Purchase journal
Purchase method
Purchase of goods for resale
Purchase order
Purchase order form
Purchase price
Purchases allowances
Purchases ledger
Purchases returns
Purchasing cost
Qualifying loss
Quarterly closing
Quarterly financial statements
Ratable value
Rate of charge
Rate of discount
Rate of exchange
Rate of interest
Raw materials
Real account
Real estate
Real property
Realization account
Realization principle
Realized cost
Realized income
Reassessment notice
Rebate
Rebates and allowances on purchases
Recapitalization (US)
Receipt
Receipt (v.)
Receipt (v.) an invoice
Receipt and payments basis (of accounting)
Receipt for payment
Receipt for rent
Receipts
Receivable
Receivables
Reciprocal accounts
Reciprocal holding
Reciprocal shareholding
Reclassify (v.)
Reclassifying
Recognition
Recognize (v.) (as)
Reconcile (v.) (of accounts)
Reconciliation (of accounts)
Reconciliation of movements in shareholders' funds (UK)
Record (v.)
Record-keeping
Records and files
Recover (v.)
Recoverable amount
Recovery
Recovery package
Recovery plan
Recurrent
Recurring
Redeem
Redeem (v.)
Redeemable
Redemption
Redemption premium
Reduction
Redundancy
Redundancy money
Refund
Refund (v.)
Registered capital
Registered company (UK)
Regulation
Related company
Related party
Related party transaction
Relevant
Reliability
Relocation
Remittance of bills for collection
Remuneration
Rendering of services
Rent
Rent (v.)
Rent receipt
Rental contract
Rental expenses
Rental value
Renting
Reorganization
Reorganization costs
Repair
Repairs and maintenance
Replacement cost
Replacement cost accounting
Replacement costing
Replacement method of depreciation
Report form (balance sheet, income statement) (US)
Reporting currency
Reporting date
Research and development costs (R & D)
Research and development tax credit (US)
Reserve
Reserve accounting
Reserve deposit
Reserve for contingencies
Reserve for doubtful accounts
Reserve provided by the articles
Residual value
Restate (v.)
Restated
Restatement
Restate-translate method
Restructuring
Results of discontinued operations
Retail inventory method
Retail method
Retained earnings
Retained earnings statement (US)
Retained profits/losses
Retention
Retention monies
Retirement (fixed asset)
Retroactive adjustment
Return
Return (v.)
Return (v.) a commission
Return to supplier
Returnable container
Returns inwards
Returns outwards
Revaluation
Revaluation of assets
Revaluation surplus
Revalued
Revenue
Revenue accounts
Revenue expenditure
Revenue from land
Revenue grants
Revenue office
Revenue recognition
Revenue reserve
Revenue-producing
Revenues (US)
Reversal
Reversal (write-down)
Reversal of timing difference
Reverse stock split
Reversing (of entry)
Review (of accounts)
Risk provision
Royalty, royalties
Ruling an account
Salaries and wages expenses
Salaries and wages payable
Salary
Salary advance
Sale
Sale for the account
Sale on account
Sales (US)
Sales allowance
Sales contract
Sales credit note
Sales day book
Sales discount
Sales figure
Sales journal
Sales ledger
Sales of manufactured finished goods
Sales returns
Sales type lease (US)
Salvage value
Schedule of accounts payable
Schedule of accounts receivable
Schedule of depreciation
Schedule of repayments
Schedules to a balance sheet
Scrap (v.)
Scrap value
Scrapping
Scraps
Securities
Security deposit
Segment
Segment information
Segment(al) reporting
Self balancing
Self-constructed property (plant or equipment)
Sell (v.) at a loss
Selling brokerage
Selling commission
Selling costs
Selling expenses (US)
Semi-finished goods
Service
Service charge
Service concern
Service contract
Service fee
Service of the loan
Service provider
Services
Servicing
Setting-up expense
Settle (v.)
Settle (v.) a bill
Settle (v.) an account
Settlement of an account
Severance pay
SG&A (Sales, General and Administrative expense)
Share
Share capital (UK)
Share premium (UK)
Share premium account
Shareholder
Shareholders' deficiency
Shareholders' equity (UK)
Shares
Shares in group undertakings (UK)
Shares in subsidiaries and associated companies
Shipping charges
Short account
Short form merger
Shortage
Short-term investment
Short-term liabilities
Shrinkage
Shutdown costs
Significant influence (20% to 50% of another company)
Simple share
Single entry book-keeping
Single-step income statement
Sinking fund
Sinking fund reserve
Sister company
Social Security (US)
Social security contributions
Social security costs
Social security tax (US)
Soft commodities
Soft costs
Solvency
Source and application of funds statement
Source of funds
Sources and uses statement
Special journal
Special purpose financial statements
Specific identification valuation method
Spending
Spending variance
Split
Staff costs
Start up costs
State subsidy
Statement
Statement of affairs
Statement of an account
Statement of cash flows
Statement of changes in capital accounts (US)
Statement of earnings (US)
Statement of finance
Statement of movements in shareholders' funds (UK)
Statement of receipts and disbursements
Statement of retained earnings (US)
Statement of source and application of funds
Statement of stockholders' equity
Statement on changes in financial position
Statute
Statutory accounts
Statutory reserve
Stewardship (resources)
Stock
Stock (US)
Stock and shares
Stock certificate
Stock ledger (UK)
Stock list
Stock valuation
Stock warrant
Stockholders' equity (US)
Stock-in trade
Stocklist (v.)
Stock-taking
Stoppage of pay
Stoppage of payment
Storage costs
Straight line depreciation
Straight line method of depreciation
Stub
Sub-classification
Subcontracting
Subcontractor
Sub-lease
Sublet
Sublet (v.)
Sub-letting agreement
Subscribe (v.)
Subscribed capital
Subscription
Subscription warrant
Subsequent
Subsequent events
Subsequent period
Subsidiary
Subsidiary ledger
Subsidy
Substance over form concept
Sub-subsidiary
Sum of the units method
Summary financial statements
Sum-of the years' digits (SYD) depreciation method
Sundries
Sundry
Sundry creditors
Sundry debtors
Sunk costs
Supplier
Supplier credit
Supplier of equipment
Supplies
Surcharge liability
Surety
Suspense account
Suspension of payments
System of accounts
T-account
Take (v.) directly to equity
Take (v.) stock
Takings
Tangible assets
Tangible personal business property
Tax
Tax credit
Tax effect
Tax loss carry backward
Tax loss carry forward
Tax not included
Tax schedule
Tax year
Taxes and dues
Temporal method
Temporal method (translation of foreign currency)
Temporary account
Temporary difference
Temporary staff
Temporary worker
Tenure
Term of payment
Terms of payment
Terms of sale
Third party accounting
Till money
Time discount (US)
Timeliness (information)
Timing differences
Total assets
Total liabilities
Total revenue (US)
Trade creditors - debit balance
Trade fair
Trade mark
Trade payables
Trade receivables
Trade-in value
Trademarks
Trading
Training
Transcribe (v.)
Transfer
Transfer of assets
Transfer of funds
Transfer of lease
Transfer order
Transfer price
Transferable securities
Translation of foreign currency
Transport equipment
Transportation equipment
Travel and entertainment
Traveling allowance
Traveling expenses
Trial balance
True and fair view
Trust receipt
Turnover
Ultimate parent enterprise
Unadjusted trial balance
Unappropriated retained earnings
Uncollectible (adj.)
Uncollectibles
Uncollectibles accounts
Unconsolidated subsidiary
Undistributable reserves
Undistributed earnings
Unearned income
Unearned revenue
Unemployment fund contributions
Unemployment insurance
Uniform code of accounts
Unit trust (UK)
Units-of production (method of depreciation)
Unlisted
Unpaid cheque
Unquoted company
Unrealised foreign currency gains and losses
Unrealized
Unrealized exchange gains or losses
Unrealized gains on assets
Unrealized loss
Unrealized loss on assets
Upfront
Upkeep costs
Upper limit
Useful life (of an asset)
Vacation pay (US)
Valuation
Valuation of securities
Value added statement
Value added tax (VAT)
Value of services in progress
Variable cost percentage
VAT
VAT included
Vertical form of financial statements
View to resale (subsidiary)
Voluntary disclosures
Voucher
Wage deduction
Wage oncost
Wages
Wages and salaries
Wages tax
Waiver
Warrant
Warranty
Warranty expense
Waste
Wasted materials
Wasting asset
Wealth
Wear and tear
Weighted average
Weighted average cost
Weighted average costing
Weighted average inventory method
Wholly-owned subsidiary
Windfall gains and losses
With a profit objective
Withdrawal
Withholding
Withholding tax
Work in process
Work in progress (WIP)
Work performed and capitalized by the enterprise
Write down (v.)
Write off
Write off (v.)
Write up (v.)
Write-down
Write-down of cost to net realizable value
Write-off
Write-up
Writing back
Year-end
Year-end adjustment
Year-end bonus
Year-end inventory
Year-to date
Yield (v.) interest
Zero-balance account
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