AY Honors/Bookkeeping/Answer Key

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Bookkeeping

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1. What is the difference between bookkeeping and accounting?

2. Define the following terms:

a. Asset

b. Liability

c. Credit

d. Debit

e. Posting

f. Trial balance

g. Voucher

h. Invoice

i. Interest

3. What is the difference between double-entry bookkeeping and single-entry bookkeeping?

4. What education is necessary to be a bookkeeper? What other education is helpful to a bookkeeping career?

5. What are some career fields that are related to bookkeeping?

6. Conduct an interview with your church treasurer, asking the following questions:

  • a. How much time do you spend each week at your job as church treasurer?
  • b. What do you do with the money collected in the offering plates?
  • c. How do you keep track of who contributed how much money?
  • d. What money is sent to the conference?
  • e. What money is kept in our local church?
  • f. Are your records ever reviewed by an accountant? How often?
  • g. How do you report the church finances to the church board?
  • h. How do you report the church finances to the conference?