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What are Assets?
The term that refers to items which the business owns that will provide future benefits.
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What is Teamwork?
A group of people working together to accomplish a certain task.
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What is a Catalogue?
The type of document that usually comes in the form of a booklet that gives detailed descriptions of products.
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What is Utmost Good Faith?
This means that a person must be truthful and give all the relevant information about the item being insured.
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What is Income Tax?
Taxes paid on an individual's income.
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What are Expenses?
Purchases, Carriage Inwards and Utilities are all examples of?
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What is an Organizational Chart?
Illustrations that show the formal structure of an organization.
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What is a Purchase Order?
The type of document that is sent from the purchaser to the supplier listing the goods that the purchaser wants to buy.
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What is Insurable Interest?
This states that a person can only insure against items that belong to them.
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What is Land Taxes?
Taxes that landowners pay on their property.
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What is the Sales Journal?
The book of original entry used to record credit sales of goods.
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What is a Stakeholder?
Any individual, institution, group or agency which has an interest in how well a business performs.
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What is the Bill of Lading?
The type of document used for the transport of goods by ship.
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What is Proximate Cause?
This states that a person will only be compensated for the risk which they insured against and nothing else closely related to it.
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What is Value Added Tax (VAT)?
This is tax imposed on the value added at each stage of production and distribution.
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What is the Trial Balance?
The name given to a list which totals all debit and credit balances from the T accounts.
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What is Collateral?
Any item of value which can be liquidated in order to obtain money in case a person cannot repay their debts.
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What is an Airway Bill?
The type of document used for the transport of goods by air.
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What is Subrogation?
This means that sometimes items cannot be replaced, therefore the insurance company may give you something else to take the place of the item you lost.
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What is Purchase Tax?
This is tax paid by the original seller of a product and passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices.
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What is a Contra Entry?
The term used when a transaction affects both the cash and bank account.
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What is the Business Plan?
An explanation of who is responsible for the business, what the business is intended to do, how it is going to get money to do it, and what profit it hopes to make.
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What is the Certificate of Origin?
The type of document used as proof of the origin of goods for international transport.
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What is Indemnity?
This states that a person will be restored to the position they were at before the risk took place.
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What is Rates and Property Tax?
These are taxes paid on a person's house and land and other property.
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