Working in Finance requires good knowledge of a banking glossary.
To put it simply stated a bank is a financial industry that accepts checks and cash them for their clients. They have fees for different things that their clients can avoid by just staying within their means or budget. A banking glossary is a banker special way of talking about your money.
For example, assets mean how much money your property is worth if you were going to re-sell it. The assets a person owns is what he is worth to the bank and your assets could be your car, house, property, and business. Anything that is owned by the person is their asset or the amount they are worth.
Net worth is another word that is used by bankers and it means the total assets minus the outside liabilities of the individual or the company. The net worth refers to what the person is worth and what position they hold in the business world. Net worth on business is based on all the assets of the company plus their liabilities. The business net worth is usually expressed on a spreadsheets which compares the assets against the liabilities by which making one grand amount and that grand amount is what is called the net worth of the business.
A liability is something that is against the company such as a hindrance and the bank usually looks at this as a minus in their direction. A liability puts an individual at a disadvantage in getting loans or credit cards from the bank. There are two different types of liability and they are legal liability and public liability.
Another word in the banking glossary is credit and most people know what credit stands for. Credit can stand for loans, credit cards, and debit. Credit and debit is usually on your bank statement by showing the minus and pluses of your net worth. Credit is something that people work for a long time to establish in the direction of being good, so they can take out a loan out for either a car or a house. Some people even have credits at a business because of an item they returned and decided to get credit in that amount. Another words, they will the credit at a later date in time which is good business practice.
Debits and credits are a form of bookkeeping and accounting terms in the banking glossary that we are talking about. Debits are assets or business transaction which means putting your paycheck into your banking account builds assets.
Credit is a business transaction that can either be considered as a liability or a gain. A debit transaction can be used to reduce a credit balance. Every debit and credit value is recorded in bookkeeping ledgers and these ledgers are used to make a credit statement.
Banking glossary are filled with many words that people or customers of the banking industry should be aware of. Some of the simpler words were listened here and there are more words that bankers use each and every day to talk about our financial situation.