Chapter Opener: Thinking Critically
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Managerial Implications: Thinking Critically
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Discussion Questions
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The leading U.S. provider of local and long distance voice services.
Order in which they appear on financial statements. Balance sheet accounts listed first, followed by
income statement accounts.
Permanent account balances are carried forward to start a new accounting period. Temporary
The business loses customers because payments on account are not recorded properly.
Cash is overstated and checks bounce.
The credit rating of the business is affected.
Answers will vary but could include the following:
CHAPTER 3
ANALYZING BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS USING T ACCOUNTS
Answers will vary, but students should recognize that a sale would have been recorded as revenue from
goods or services sold on a T account. The sale would be entered on the left (increase) side of an asset
account.
One of the world’s most advanced global backbone networks, carrying 18.7 petabytes of data traffic
on an average business day to nearly every continent and country, with up to 99.999 percent
reliability.
The nation’s fastest mobile broadband network serving 85.1 million customers offering voice
coverage in more than 220 countries, data roaming in more than 195 and 3G in more than 125
countries.
The nation’s largest directory publisher, delivering print directories to 173 million customers.
Payment of rent in advance affords the right to occupy the facility the number of months covered by
the payment.
Debit: entry on the left side of an account. Credit: entry on the right side of an account.
Note to instructor: These questions are designed to check students’ understanding of new terms,
concepts, and procedures presented in the chapter.
a. debit b. credit c. credit d. credit e. debit
Adding the figures on both sides of the account and subtracting the smaller total from the larger
total.