Johnson & Wales University Library ESL Guide Accounting and Finance Glossary
Johnson & Wales University Library ESL Guide Accounting and Finance Glossary defines about eighty accounting and finance terms in alphabetical order, from account, accrual accounting and adjusting entry through to turnover and volume. It forms one page of the ESL Guide published by the Providence campus library of Johnson & Wales University, alongside pages for other fields of study.
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How It Helps Your Business English
Each entry gives the English term and a one-sentence or two-sentence definition written in full prose. The terms cover the financial statements, the accounting equation and GAAP, debits and credits, accrual and cash-basis accounting, depreciation, budgets, cost and profit centers, liquidity, leverage, the operating and financing cycles, and forms of business ownership.
You look up a term you have met in a report, a class or a conversation at work and read what it means in plain English, then follow the related entries around it, since terms that belong together are defined in the same wording. Reading a run of entries in one sitting also shows you how the words fit together, for example how assets, liabilities and equity sit in the one accounting equation.
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