See not sufficient funds check.
See not sufficient funds check.
See discount on bonds payable.
A status granted by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to nonprofits applying and meeting certain conditions. This status means that the nonprofit organization is not subject to federal income taxes. It also means...
What is ERP? Definition of ERP In accounting, ERP is the acronym for enterprise resource planning. ERP could be described as a database software package that supports all of a business’s processes and operations...
The amount of wages and related expenses that have been incurred by the employer (and earned by the employees) but have not yet been paid.
Spoilage or waste that is likely to occur and cannot be avoided at a reasonable cost.
An actual count of the goods owned by the business.
A method where only the variable manufacturing costs are assigned to inventory and the cost of goods sold. Fixed manufacturing costs are viewed as expenses of the period in which they are incurred. This method is not...
See rolling budget.
Sales made on account. Sales where the customer is allowed to pay at a later date. Noncash sales.
One component of a manufacturer’s inventory. Sometimes referred to as Stores or Raw Materials. (Other components of a manufacturer’s inventory are work-in-process and finished goods.)
The name used by a buyer of goods or services for the sales invoice or bill received from the supplier of the goods or services.
A contra revenue account that reports the discounts allowed by the seller if the customer pays the amount owed within a specified time period. For example, terms of “1/10, n/30” indicates that the buyer can...
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A common cost. Often refers to the costs prior to the point where several products emerge from a common process.
The acronym for original equipment manufacturer.
See internal rate of return.
The allocation of manufacturing overhead (indirect manufacturing costs) to products on the basis of a volume metric such as direct labor hours or production machine hours. As manufacturing becomes more sophisticated the...
The process of becoming outdated or no longer being economically feasible (often caused by technology advances). For example, personal computers and computer chips from 2010 are obsolete even though they can be operated....
Costs that have been used up or consumed. Expired costs are reported as expenses. (Costs that have not yet expired are reported as assets.)
The expenses directly incurred by a nonprofit organization in providing one of its programs.
A situation where there is correlation between the independent variables used in explaining the change in a dependent variable. When this condition exists, you cannot have confidence in the individual coefficients of the...
Manufacturing overhead assigned to units of output. Often this is applied via a standard overhead rate. See the Explanation of Standard Costing.
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...
A stock split, such as a 2-for-1, means that every stockholder will have twice as many shares as was held previously. Accordingly, the market price per share after the split should be one-half of the market price...
and transferred to the owner’s capital account, thereby increasing owner’s equity. (At a corporation, the credit balances in the revenue accounts will be closed and transferred to Retained Earnings, which is a...
A document that indicates the quantity of goods received. This report is often matched in the accounts payable department with the purchase order and the vendor’s invoice prior to paying the vendor.
A target rate. For example, companies may decide to invest only in projects that generate an internal rate of return that is in excess of 12%. The 12% figure becomes the hurdle rate.
Costs that are common to several products, processes, activities, departments, territories, etc. Often common costs are subsequently allocated to each of the joint products, joint processes, etc. in order to determine...
’ equity, and statement of changes in equity) is one of the five required financial statements issued by a U.S. corporation whose common stock is publicly traded. This financial statement summarizes on one page all of...
This term is used in several ways. Some use the word interchangeably with revenues. Others use the word to signify a net amount, such as income from operations (revenues minus expenses in the company’s main...
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Net sales revenues minus the cost of goods sold.
In accounting the qualitative characteristics include relevance, reliability, comparability, and consistency. Qualitative characteristics are discussed in the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Statement of...
Sending work to another organization instead of processing the work in-house. Often payroll is outsourced to a company that specializes in payroll processing.
The systematic allocation of the cost of a natural resource from the balance sheet to the income statement.
A word to describe whether a company is able to earn more revenues than expenses.
What does debit memo mean on a bank statement? Definition of Bank Debit Memo A debit memo on a company’s bank statement refers to a deduction by the bank from the company’s bank account. In other words, a bank debit...
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The activities provided by a nonprofit in carrying out one of its major programs.
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