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Invoice

A list of goods sent or services provided, with a statement of the sum due for these.

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Irrecoverable debt

If its highly unlikely that the amount owed by a customer will be received, then this debt is known as an irrecoverable debt. As it will probably never be r...

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ISA

An individual savings account, a scheme allowing individuals to hold cash, shares, and unit trusts free of tax on dividends, interest, and capital gains.

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The journal

A record that keeps accounting transactions in chronological order, i.e. as they occur.

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Labour payments

The wage paid by an employer to an employee in exchange for work.

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Ledger

A book or other collection of financial accounts

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Liabilities

The debts of a business. Liabilities are classified as current (paid off in regular installments in 12 months or less) or long-term (large loans for fixed a...

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LIFO

Last In First Out; the most recently produced items are recorded as sold first.

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Limited assurance

A reduction in assurance engagement risk to a level that is acceptable in the circumstances of the assurance engagement but where that risk is greater than ...

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Liquidity

Liquidity is the term used to describe how easy it is to convert assets to cash. The most liquid asset, and what everything else is compared to, is cash

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