Fill in the Blanks: Chapter Two

1. The general ledger is comprised of numerous individual asset, liability, equity, revenue, and expense ____________  accounts .

 

2. A liability account should be increased with a ____________credit and decreased with a ____________debit.

 

3. The normal balance of an expense account is a ____________ debitbalance.

 

4. The normal balances of accounts correspond to the fundamental ____________accounting equation .

 

5. Evidence of transactions is often provided by the receipt or issuance of accounting forms known as ____________source documents.

 

6. In any transaction, total debits must ____________equal total credits.

 

7. To record the payment of a previously established account payable requires a ____________ debitto the Accounts Payable account.

 

8. A ____________trial balance is a listing of the general ledger accounts along with the dollar balances contained therein.

 

9. The individual accounts in a general ledger are frequently assigned a number according to the ____________chart of accounts.