See program evaluation and review technique (PERT).
See program evaluation and review technique (PERT).
See inventory: finished goods (FG).
What does double entry mean? Definition of Double Entry In accounting, double entry means that every transaction will involve at least two accounts. Double entry also requires that one account be debited and the other...
Generally a long term liability account containing the face amount, par amount, or maturity amount of the bonds issued by a company that are outstanding as of the balance sheet date. To learn more about bonds payable,...
Segments of a business. For example, a corporation may have a consumer division and an industrial division in order to improve its effectiveness in marketing its goods.
A statistical tool that uses the least-squares method to estimate the fixed and variable components of mixed costs.
The gross purchases of merchandise for resale minus purchase returns, purchase allowances, and purchase discounts.
Checks which have been written, but have not yet cleared the bank on which they were drawn. In the bank reconciliation, outstanding checks are deducted from the balance per bank. To learn more, see Explanation of Bank...
Bonds with one maturity date (as opposed to serial bond).
The entry made in a journal. It will contain the date, the account name and amount to be debited, and the account name and amount to be credited. Each journal entry must have the dollars of debits equal to the dollars of...
Long term assets that are not classified as investments, property, plant, equipment, or intangible assets. An example is bond issue costs that are amortized to expense over the life of the bonds.
Is an automobile loan payment an expense? Only the interest portion of an automobile loan payment is an expense. The principal portion of the loan payment is a reduction of the loan balance, which is reported as a Note...
A weighted average cost used with the periodic inventory system. To learn more, see Explanation of Inventory and Cost of Goods Sold.
The amount of a long-term asset’s cost that has been allocated to Depreciation Expense since the time that the asset was acquired. Accumulated Depreciation is a long-term contra asset account (an asset account with...
An expectation that as a task is repeated there will be significant time reductions during the early repetitions. The time savings will dissipate after continuous performance. This is important to consider when setting...
A liability account on the books of a company receiving cash in advance of delivering goods or services to the customer. The entry on the books of the company at the time the money is received in advance is a debit to...
A structured market for trading stocks and bonds such as the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ. Capital market can also include less structured markets such as private placements.
What is cycle counting? Cycle counting refers to physically counting a portion of the inventory items on many days throughout the year instead of counting all of the items on a single day near the end of the year. For...
See last in, first out (LIFO).
A budget that does not flex for changes in volume or activity.
A series of equal amounts occurring at the beginning of each equal time interval. Also known as an annuity due. An example would be the monthly rent on an apartment.
The sum of future amounts multiplied by their respective probabilities of occurrence.
Usually financial statements refer to the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, statement of retained earnings, and statement of stockholders’ equity. The balance sheet reports information as of...
A bearer bond is a bond that is not registered in its owner’s name. The person holding the bond is presumed to be the owner of the bond. The interest on a bearer bond is received by clipping one of the dated...
The cost of repairing or replacing previously sold products during their warranty periods.
See fixed manufacturing overhead volume variance.
See sum-of-the-years’ digits method of depreciation.
A listing of the general ledger accounts and their account balances at a point in time after the adjusting entries have been posted. The grand total of the accounts with debit balances should equal the grand total of the...
The amount of cash that could be received if a whole life insurance policy were canceled.
The preparation of financial statements from a client’s information and without any review or audit of the amounts.
A financial ratio that compares a company’s interest expense to the company’s income before interest expense and income taxes. It is an indicator of the likelihood that interest payments will be made in the...
A liability account used to record an amount received from a customer before a service has been provided or before goods have been shipped. This account is referred to as a deferred revenue account and could be entitled...
See current ratio.
A liability account whose balance is the unpaid principal balance as of the balance sheet date. The amount of principal required to be paid within 12 months of the balance sheet date is reported as a current liability....
One of the amounts used in determining the amount of interest to be capitalized when a company self-constructs certain long-term assets.
The amount of principal owed on a loan. On the typical mortgage loan, a portion of the monthly payment is applied to interest and principal. The amount of principal that remains after the principal payment is the unpaid...
A stockholders’ equity account with a credit balance. The credit balance results when a corporation sells some of its treasury stock for an amount that exceeds the corporation’s cost of the treasury stock...
A liability account containing the amount of premium on bonds payable that has not yet been amortized to interest expense. To learn more, see Explanation of Bonds Payable.
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