Chapter 2, Problem 2.1EX

To determine

Balance sheet:

Balance sheet is a financial statement that shows the available assets (owner’s equity and outsider’s equity) and owed liabilities from investing and financial activities of a company. This statement reveals the financial health of company. So, this statement is also called as Statement of Financial Position. It helps the users to know the creditworthiness of a company as to whether the company has enough assets to pay off its liabilities. The main components of balance sheet are assets, liabilities, and stockholders’ equity.

Income statement:

Income statement is a financial statement which reports revenues, and expenses from business operations, and the result of those operations as net income or net loss for a particular time period is referred to as income statement.

To identify: Whether each of the following account is either a balance sheet or an income statement, and to identify for each balance sheet account, whether it is an asset, a liability, owner’s equity, and for each income statement account, whether it is a revenue or an expense.