Benefits given to employees that are in addition to wages and salaries. Examples include health, dental, life, vision, and disability insurances, employer’s portion of social security and Medicare tax, paid...
Benefits given to employees that are in addition to wages and salaries. Examples include health, dental, life, vision, and disability insurances, employer’s portion of social security and Medicare tax, paid...
Compensation for employees that is in addition to salaries and wages. Examples include paid absences (vacation, sick, holiday), insurances (health, dental, vision, life), pensions, profit sharing contributions, employer...
A percentage of an hourly wage rate (or salary) that represents the employer’s additional costs of employee benefits such as paid vacation days, paid sick days, insurance (health, dental, life, worker...
What is a fringe benefit rate? Author: Harold Averkamp, CPA, MBA Definition of Fringe Benefit Rate A fringe benefit rate is a percentage that results from dividing the cost of an employee’s fringe benefits by the wages...
A term used in accounting that refers to employees’ time off with pay for vacations, holidays, and sick days. Companies that are obligated to pay for these days off are required by the matching principle to record...
Way, etc. employer’s portion/expense for Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, state and federal unemployment taxes employer’s portion/expense of fringe benefits such as health and dental insurance, paid...
Selling expenses are part of the operating expenses (along with administrative expenses). Selling expenses include sales commissions, advertising, promotional materials distributed, rent of the sales showroom, rent of...
A phrase used to communicate the total compensation of a salaried employee. Fringe benefits (health insurance, vacation days, sick days, employer matching of Social Security and Medicare taxes, pension or 401-k...
.) The direct labor cost includes the wages and fringe benefits of the direct labor employees and the cost of the temporary staff that are working directly on the manufacturer’s products. The direct labor cost is...
The description of the required reporting of expenses by some nonprofits. The expenses will be presented on lines based on the nature of the expense (salaries, fringe benefits, rent, utilities, postage, professional...
clerks to process a large volume of purchases and payments. The company may also employ a payroll clerk to process its many employees’ pay and fringe benefits. Perhaps an accounts receivable clerk will be employed to...
of the materials that are traceable to the product, such as the aluminum in beverage cans Direct labor , which are the wages and fringe benefits earned by the individuals who are physically involved in converting raw...
statements are prepared under the accrual method of accounting. For instance, the monthly bookkeeping entries for depreciation, property taxes, utilities, fringe benefits and more will need to be estimates. Even the...
Administrative expenses are part of the operating expenses (along with selling expenses). Administrative expenses include expenses associated with the general administration of the business. Examples include the salaries...
that will be processed in early January and paid to the employees on Friday, January 8. The amount of the wages for the five days of December 27 through December 31 are calculated to be $5,000. In addition, the retailer...
A cost or expense that is not directly traceable to a department, product, activity, customer, etc. As a result indirect costs and expenses are often allocated to the department, product, etc. For example, a...
of the installation labor (wages and related fringe benefits) is part of the cost of the asset (and not an immediate expense of the accounting period). The total cost of the asset, including installation costs, will...
Our Explanation of Payroll Accounting discusses the taxes and benefits which are withheld from employees' pay as well as the taxes and benefits that are expenses for the employers. Also provided are examples of the...
Statement Accounts A few of the many income statement accounts used in a business include Sales, Sales Returns and Allowances, Service Revenues, Cost of Goods Sold, Salaries Expense, Wages Expense, Fringe Benefits...
Our Explanation of Improving Profits will assist you in focusing on the costs and revenues that are relevant (and ignoring those which are not relevant) for improving profits and eliminating losses. Examples of the...
and purchases that have been received, but the vendors’ invoices have not yet been recorded in Accounts Payable Accrued employee wages and fringe benefits Accrued management bonuses Accrued interest on loans payable...
be a problem for pricing and other decisions.) Examples of Indirect Manufacturing Costs Some examples of indirect manufacturing costs include: depreciation, repairs and maintenance, electricity, etc. for the production...
insurance policies in advance. Any insurance premium costs that have not expired as of the balance sheet date should be reported as a current asset such as Prepaid Insurance. The costs that have expired should be...
Our Explanation of Financial Ratios includes calculations and descriptions of 15 financial ratios. As you calculate the financial ratios you will also gain a deeper understanding of a company's operations and financial...
Our Explanation of Nonmanufacturing Overhead provides examples of a manufacturer's expenses which are not considered to be costs of a product for financial reporting. However, they are operating expenses that will have...
Our Explanation of Working Capital and Liquidity provides you with an in-depth look at the components of working capital and the challenges of converting current assets to cash before obligations come due. You will see...
Benefits provided by a company to retirees. Typical examples of potential benefits are pensions, life insurance, and health insurance.
What are the benefits of a revenue budget? Author: Harold Averkamp, CPA, MBA The main benefit of a revenue budget is that it requires looking into the future. The revenue budget should contain the assumptions made about...
A retirement plan that specifies the amount that a retiree will receive, such as 1% of the person’s recent salary times the years of service. The employer’s obligation is to contribute enough money to meet...
per month pension check. Under the defined benefit pension plan, the employer commits to depositing enough money into a pension fund in order to cover the future benefits. Since there is uncertainty in the investment...
the “worker comp” insurance that companies must provide. The cost of the workers’ compensation insurance is paid by the employer. Many view the cost as another fringe benefit and will include the cost in its...
) [Employer-paid fringe benefit costs other than payroll taxes (employers’ share of health insurance, holiday and vacation pay, company contributions to retirement plans, etc.) will also appear on the income...
An employee fringe benefit provided by an employer that allows employees to be absent from work with pay. Often the number of paid vacation days allowed is based on the number of years of employment.
A common fringe benefit given to employees during a period in which they do not have to work. If an employee earns one week of paid vacation to be taken after working one full year, the employer should recognize this...
An employee fringe benefit provided by an employer that allows employees to be paid for a limited number of days per year when the employees are ill.
expense or fringe benefit expense if the employees do not work in a manufacturing department. If the employee works in a manufacturing department, the amount of the FICA matching is recorded as part of the company’s...
Our Explanation of the Balance Sheet provides you with a basic understanding of a corporation's balance sheet (or statement of financial position). You will gain insights regarding the assets, liabilities, and...
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