Benefits provided by a company to retirees. Typical examples of potential benefits are pensions, life insurance, and health insurance.
Benefits provided by a company to retirees. Typical examples of potential benefits are pensions, life insurance, and health insurance.
The statement of comprehensive income covers the same period of time as the income statement, and consists of two major sections: Net income (taken from the income statement) Other comprehensive income (adjustments...
taken. Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pensions Postretirement benefits other than pensions is a term that is used by accountants to describe the medical, dental, and vision benefits that are provided to retirees....
) and will result in 24 paydays in a year. Mark as wrong Mark as right postretirement benefits This term refers to benefits such as pensions and health insurance which are earned by employees during their working years...
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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...
What are the benefits of a revenue budget? The main benefit of a revenue budget is that it requires looking into the future. The revenue budget should contain the assumptions made about the future and the details about...
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...
Comprehensive income consists of the following two components (which are reported on the statement of comprehensive income): Net income (or loss) from the income statement, and Other comprehensive income (some...
What is a fringe benefit rate? 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 paid to the employee for the...
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...
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...
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 returns, the life expectancy of...
that make up the amount of accumulated other comprehensive income include the following: Unrealized gains/losses on hedge/derivative financial instruments Foreign currency translation adjustments Unrealized...
on the corporation’s income statement), plus Other comprehensive income (if any) Examples of other comprehensive income include: Unrealized gains/losses on hedging derivatives Foreign currency translation...
liabilities are also known as noncurrent liabilities. Examples of Long-term Liabilities Some examples of long-term liabilities are the noncurrent portions of the following: bonds payable long-term loans pension...
/losses on postretirement benefit plans Join PRO to Track Progress Mark the Question as Read Must-Watch Video Learn How to Advance Your Accounting and Bookkeeping Career Perform better at your current job Refresh...
A government index that tracks the changes in prices in order to measure general inflation. This index can be used by small companies to obtain the benefits of LIFO without tracking individual units in inventory. See the...
Taxes assessed by states to cover unemployment benefits paid to unemployed workers who have been laid off or terminated by a company for specified reasons. This tax is paid by the employer but is computed by multiplying...
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 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...
A subgroup of a nonprofit’s supporting activities expenses. This functional expense classification is used for the fundraising activities including fundraising campaigns, mailings for funds from supporters, and...
The next best benefit foregone. The opportunity lost. Often measured as the contribution margin given up by not doing an activity. For example, if a sole proprietor is foregoing a salary and benefits of $50,000 at...
another way, since we cannot undo the past, every decision will affect only today and/or the future. As a result, the relevant costs and benefits for making a decision are the current and future costs....
or stockholders? equity Benefits of Disposing of Obsolete Inventory Since the value of the obsolete items may continue to decrease, it is wise to dispose of the items at any price as soon as possible. The benefits of...
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 holidays, vacations and sick days, pension...
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...
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 become an expense when the asset...
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...
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...
Our Explanation of Financial Statements provides you with the highlights of each of the five external financial statements issued by U.S. corporations. Our insights will give you a good understanding of what the...
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 focus solely on the company’s...
that a company’s employees should be bonded. However, the cost of such protection may far exceed the expected benefits. Join PRO to Track Progress Mark the Question as Read Must-Watch Video Learn How to Advance Your...
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 classified as the following: A product...
benefits (more sales, lower health insurance expense) are related to the amounts being spent. Here, too, the ROI calculations do not consider the time value of money. Join PRO to Track Progress Mark the Question as Read...
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 materials into a finished product...
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