The long term asset category of a classified balance sheet which appears immediately after the current assets. Listed in this category would be a bond sinking fund, funds held for construction, the cash surrender value...
The long term asset category of a classified balance sheet which appears immediately after the current assets. Listed in this category would be a bond sinking fund, funds held for construction, the cash surrender value...
A liability account that reports an insurance company’s premiums received from its insured that have not yet been earned. For example, if the insurance company receives $600 on January 27 for an insured’s...
An item that is dependent on another item. For example, your wages would be a dependent variable and the hours you work would be the independent variable. This relationship is often expressed as y = a + bx, where y is...
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,...
A donor-imposed restriction on net assets that requires using the assets within a specified passage of time.
A shortened version of the term bank reconciliation or bank statement reconciliation.
A statistic known as the coefficient of determination. This statistic indicates the percent change in the dependent variable that is explained by the change in the independent variable(s).
See double declining balance method of depreciation.
A loan from a bank or other lender for which the borrower is not required to pledge assets as collateral for the loan.
The activities provided by a nonprofit in carrying out one of its major programs.
See Explanation of Inventory and Cost of Goods Sold.
See sole proprietorship.
The first-in, first-out cost flow assumumption under the perpetual inventory system. The first (oldest) costs are the first costs removed from inventory at the time that goods are sold. The most recent costs will remain...
A technique used to determine the variable rate (slope of a total cost line) of an independent variable and the fixed amount by using just two points: the highest point and the lowest point. For example, if at the...
Under the accrual method of accounting, this account reports the employer’s expense for the company’s 401(k) plan associated with the employees in the delivery department during the period indicated in the...
The optimum purchase (or production) quantity which minimizes the combined total cost of carrying inventory and processing additional purchase orders (or production setups).
A table showing present value factors for various interest rates and numbers of years/periods for a single amount at a future point in time.
Also referred to as manufacturing overhead, factory overhead, indirect manufacturing costs, or manufacturing support costs. To learn more, see Explanation of Manufacturing Overhead.
Journals other than the general journal. Special or specialized journals include the cash receipts journal, the cash disbursements journal, the purchases journal, and the sales journal.
The result of a corporation buying back its own bonds for an amount that is less than the carrying value of the bonds. The amount of the gain is computed by subtracting the amount spent to repurchase the bonds from the...
The income statement account which contains a portion of the cost of plant and equipment that is being matched to the time interval shown in the heading of the income statement. (There is no depreciation expense for...
See straight-line method of depreciation.
An income statement account used to record the amount that the asset Inventory is reduced during the accounting period because the net realizable value of the inventory is less than its cost.
Under the accrual method of accounting, this account reports the amount of wages that the delivery employees have earned during the accounting period indicated in the heading of the income statement. Because wages are...
Recording an entry in an account in the general ledger or in a subsidiary ledger.
Benefits provided by a company to retirees. Typical examples of potential benefits are pensions, life insurance, and health insurance.
The situation where a company has assigned less manufacturing overhead than the amount actually incurred.
A financial statement that reports the current year information contained in the general ledger account Retained Earnings. The statement will include the beginning balance, prior period adjustments, net income for the...
That part of a manufacturer’s inventory that is in the production process and has not yet been completed and transferred to the finished goods inventory. This account contains the cost of the direct material,...
This current liability account reports the amount a company’s employees have earned in holiday pay, vacation pay, and sick days but have not yet taken as of the date of the balance sheet.
A liability account that reports the amount a company owes as of the date of the balance sheet for the company’s pension plan. Information on pensions can be found in an Intermediate Accounting textbook.
The record of journal entries appearing in order by date. Some refer to the journal as the book of original entry, since the entries are first recorded in a journal. From the journal the entries will be posted to the...
Federal government securities with a fixed interest rate and maturing in 10 years or less.
The time from when goods are ordered until the time when the goods are received.
The direct method could refer to the method of preparing the statement of cash flows. The direct method could also refer to the method of allocating a manufacturing facility’s service departments to its production...
The inventory system where purchases are debited to the inventory account and the inventory account is credited at the time of each sale for the cost of the goods sold. Hence, the balance in the inventory account is...
A stated legal amount often appearing on preferred stock, bonds, and some common stock.
Net sales is the gross amount of Sales minus Sales Returns and Allowances, and Sales Discounts for the time interval indicated on the income statement.
See declaration date.
In business decision-making, payback means the number of years before the cash invested in a project is returned. It involves the cash flows from the project but generally the cash flows are not discounted to reflect the...
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