Q. What is Articulate?

The fundamental accounting concept of the double-entry method of recording transactions. Under the double-entry approach each transaction has a two-sided effect on each party engaging in the transaction. Therefore to record a transaction each party debits at least one account and credits at least one account. The total debits equal the total credits in every journal entry. When learning how to prepare work sheets in section 4 you learned that financial statements are basically related and articulate (interact) with each other. For instance we carry the amount of net income from the income statement to the statement of retained earnings. Then we hold the ending balance on the statement of retained earnings to the balance sheet to bring total assets and total equities into balance.