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This glossary defines accounting terminology used in bookkeeping, financial reporting, audit, tax, and internal control documentation.

Coverage includes core accounting concepts, chart-of-accounts language, financial statement items, audit and assurance terms, tax and payroll vocabulary, closing processes, controls, and common reporting metrics.

For accountants, auditors, bookkeepers, controllers, finance staff, students, and readers interpreting accounting reports and workpapers.

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Bond analysis

Accounting term: Bond analysis.

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Qualified opinion

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Accounting term: Qualified opinion.

Quarter-end fire drill Quarterly report Quick ratio

Quarter-end fire drill

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Practitioner slang or shorthand used in accounting: Quarter-end fire drill.

Quarterly report Qualified opinion Quick ratio

Quarterly report

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Accounting term: Quarterly report.

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Quick ratio

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Financial ratio/metric: Quick ratio.

Qualified opinion Quarter-end fire drill Quarterly report

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ABA ABA (LESS COMMON THAN 'ACCRUAL BASIS') ABA (LESS COMMON, USUALLY JUST 'ACCRUAL BASIS') ABC AMORT. (LESS COMMON) AOCI CAPEX CFS COGS D/A (LESS COMMON) DBO DEPS DTA DTA / DTL DTA/DTL E (OFTEN USED IN THE ACCOUNTING EQUATION A = L + E) EARNINGS BEFORE INTEREST, TAXES, DEPRECIATION, AND AMORTIZATION EBITDA EPS ERP FCTA (OR CTA FOR CUMULATIVE TRANSLATION ADJUSTMENT) FV GL LIFO N/A N/A (OFTEN JUST 'GOING CONCERN') N/A (OFTEN REFERRED TO BY STANDARD NUMBERS) N/A (OFTEN REFERRED TO SIMPLY AS 'LEVERAGE') N/A (OFTEN SHORTENED TO 'ACCRUAL ACCOUNTING') N/A (REFERS TO LEVELS 1, 2, 3) N/A (SOMETIMES EPS DILUTION FOR EARNINGS PER SHARE DILUTION) N/A (SOMETIMES RR) N/A (SOMETIMES TS) N/A (STANDARDS ARE KEY) NCI NPV OCI ROI ROU ASSET SCF SOX SPE TB TP WACC (OFTEN USED AS A PROXY) WC WCM XBRL

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