📚 Year 7 Edexcel Accounting: Quick Guide to Memorising Vocabulary & Terminology | Year 7 Edexcel 会计:词汇术语速记指南
Welcome to the ultimate starter pack for Year 7 Edexcel Accounting. This guide turns confusing accounting words into easy, memorable concepts so you can walk into your first lessons feeling confident and prepared.
欢迎来到 Year 7 Edexcel 会计终极入门指南。这份指南会把令人困惑的会计词汇变成简单好记的概念,让你信心满满地走进每一堂会计课。
1. Assets, Liabilities and Capital | 资产、负债与资本
An asset is anything a business owns that has value – cash, equipment, even money owed by customers. Think of assets as ‘what the business has’.
资产是企业拥有的任何有价值的东西——现金、设备,甚至是客户欠的款项。你可以把资产理解为“企业拥有什么”。
A liability is what a business owes to others, such as bank loans or unpaid bills. Liabilities represent claims against the business’s assets.
负债是企业欠别人的东西,比如银行贷款或未付账单。负债代表了对企业资产的求偿权。
Capital is the owner’s stake in the business, often called equity. It is the amount the business owes back to the owner and is calculated as assets minus liabilities.
资本是所有者对企业的投入,通常也称为权益。它是企业应付还给所有者的金额,计算方式是资产减去负债。
2. The Accounting Equation | 会计等式
The foundation of all accounting is the accounting equation: Assets = Liabilities + Capital. Every single transaction keeps this balance.
所有会计的根基就是会计等式:资产 = 负债 + 资本。每一笔交易都必须保持这个平衡。
If a business borrows money from the bank, assets (cash) increase, and liabilities (bank loan) increase by the same amount. The equation always stays equal.
如果企业从银行借钱,资产(现金)增加,同时负债(银行贷款)也增加同样的金额。等式始终相等。
Memorise this equation by picturing a seesaw: the left side (assets) must always balance with the right side (liabilities + capital).
用跷跷板来记忆这个等式:左边(资产)必须始终和右边(负债+资本)保持平衡。
3. Revenue, Expenses and Profit | 收入、费用与利润
Revenue is the income a business earns from selling goods or providing services, before any costs are deducted. It is sometimes called sales or turnover.
收入是企业在扣除任何成本之前,通过销售商品或提供服务赚取的所得。有时也称为销售额或营业额。
Expenses are the costs incurred to run the business, such as rent, wages, and electricity. Expenses reduce the profit.
费用是企业运营过程中发生的成本,例如租金、工资和电费。费用会减少利润。
Profit is what remains after all expenses are subtracted from revenue. If expenses are greater than revenue, the result is a loss.
利润是收入减去所有费用后的剩余部分。如果费用大于收入,结果就是亏损。
4. Debits and Credits | 借方与贷方
In double-entry accounting, every transaction has a debit side (Dr) and a credit side (Cr). The total debits must equal total credits.
在复式记账法中,每笔交易都有借方(Dr)和贷方(Cr)。借方总额必须等于贷方总额。
Debits increase assets and expenses, but decrease liabilities, capital and revenue. Credits do the opposite.
借方使资产和费用增加,但使负债、资本和收入减少。贷方作用相反。
A simple memory trick: ‘DEAD CLIC’ – Debits increase Expenses, Assets, Drawings; Credits increase Liabilities, Income, Capital.
一个简单的记忆技巧:“DEAD CLIC”——借方增加费用、资产、提款;贷方增加负债、收入、资本。
5. Drawings | 提款
Drawings are money or assets taken out of the business by the owner for personal use. Drawings reduce capital, not expenses.
提款是指所有者从企业取走供个人使用的金钱或资产。提款减少的是资本,而非费用。
Even though drawings feel like an expense to the owner, in accounting they are treated as a reduction of the owner’s equity.
尽管对所有者而言提款像是支出,但在会计上,提款被视为所有者权益的减少。
6. Accounts and Ledgers | 账户与分类账
An account is a record used to sort and store transactions of a similar nature, e.g. a ‘Cash account’ or ‘Sales account’.
账户是用来分类和存储同类交易的记录,例如“现金账户”或“销售账户”。
A ledger is a collection of accounts. The main ledger is called the general ledger, where all the business’s accounts live together.
分类账是账户的集合。总分类账是主要分类账,企业所有账户都记录在其中。
Think of a ledger as a filing cabinet, and each account as a drawer labelled with a specific name.
你可以把分类账想象成一个文件柜,每个账户就是贴有具体名称标签的抽屉。
7. Trial Balance | 试算平衡表
A trial balance is a list of all ledger account balances at a particular date, divided into debit and credit columns. It checks the mathematical accuracy of the double-entry records.
试算平衡表是截至某一特定日期所有分类账户余额的列表,分为借方栏和贷方栏。它用于检查复式记账记录的数学准确性。
If total debits equal total credits in the trial balance, it suggests there are no arithmetic errors – but it does not guarantee that all transactions are correct.
如果试算平衡表中借方总额等于贷方总额,说明没有算术错误——但这并不保证所有交易都正确无误。
A common mistake: recording a purchase of stationery as a debit to equipment. The trial balance would still balance, but the account is wrong.
一个常见错误:将购买文具记录为设备借方。试算平衡表依然会平衡,但账户错了。
8. Key Verbs in Accounting | 会计关键动词
‘Purchases’ means buying goods the business intends to resell. ‘Expenses’ are costs for running the business, not resold.
“购货”(Purchases)指购买企业打算转售的商品。“费用”(Expenses)是维持企业运营的成本,不会转售。
‘Sales’ refers to revenue from selling goods. ‘Returns inwards’ are goods returned by customers; ‘returns outwards’ are goods sent back to suppliers.
“销售”(Sales)指销售商品带来的收入。“销售退回”是客户退回的商品;“购货退出”是退还给供应商的商品。
‘Posting’ is the process of transferring journal entries to ledger accounts. ‘Balancing off’ means finding the difference between the debit and credit sides of an account and carrying the balance down.
“过账”是将日记账分录转移到分类账户的过程。“结平”是指计算账户借方和贷方之间的差额,并将余额结转至下期。
9. Memorisation Tricks and Patterns | 记忆技巧与模式
Use colour coding: highlight assets in green, liabilities in red, capital in blue. This visual link helps your brain group terms quickly.
使用颜色编码:用绿色高亮资产,红色高亮负债,蓝色高亮资本。这种视觉关联能帮助大脑快速分组术语。
Create simple stories: ‘My bike (asset) cost £200, I borrowed £50 (liability), so I put in £150 (capital).’ Turn abstract terms into everyday life.
编简单故事:“我的自行车(资产)值200英镑,我借了50英镑(负债),所以我投入了150英镑(资本)。”把抽象术语变成日常生活。
Practice saying the accounting equation out loud every morning: ‘Assets equal liabilities plus capital.’ Repetition builds permanent memory.
每天早上大声念出会计等式:“资产等于负债加资本。”重复能建立长期记忆。
Flashcards are your best friend. Write an English term on one side and the Chinese definition on the other. Test yourself daily.
闪卡是你最好的朋友。一面写英文术语,另一面写中文释义。每天自我测试。
10. Common Confusions and How to Avoid Them | 常见混淆与避免方法
Many learners mix up ‘debtor’ and ‘creditor’. A debtor is someone who owes money to the business (an asset). A creditor is someone the business owes money to (a liability).
很多学习者混淆“债务人”与“债权人”。债务人是欠企业钱的人(属于资产)。债权人是企业欠其钱的人(属于负债)。
‘Capital’ vs ‘revenue’: Capital is the owner’s stake; revenue is money earned from selling. Capital is on the balance sheet, revenue is on the income statement.
“资本”与“收入”:资本是所有者的权益;收入是通过销售赚取的金钱。资本出现在资产负债表,收入出现在利润表。
Expenditure can be ‘capital expenditure’ (buying long-term assets) or ‘revenue expenditure’ (day-to-day costs). Linking the type to its lifespan helps you remember.
支出可分为“资本性支出”(购买长期资产)和“收益性支出”(日常费用)。将支出类型与使用年限关联有助于记忆。
11. Building Your Own Vocabulary Bank | 建立你自己的词汇库
Create a dedicated notebook with three columns: English term, Chinese translation, and a simple example from a shop or school club scenario.
准备一个专用笔记本,分成三栏:英文术语、中文翻译、一个来自商店或学校俱乐部场景的简单例子。
Example for ‘prepaid expense’: ‘I paid 12 months of phone bill upfront – that is a prepaid expense because the benefit is used later.’
“预付费用”示例:“我提前支付了12个月的电话费——这就是预付费用,因为效益会在后期才被使用。”
Draw small icons next to each term: a house for asset, a hand reaching out for liability, a crown for capital. Icons stick in visual memory.
在每个术语旁画小图标:资产画房子,负债画伸出的手,资本画王冠。图标更容易停留在视觉记忆中。
Review your vocabulary bank every week. Highlight any terms you still find tricky and focus on creating new examples for those.
每周复习你的词汇库。高亮任何你仍觉得困难的术语,并专注为它们创建新例子。
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