A journal entry with more than the minimum of one debit and one credit. Example: a debit to Cash of $500 and a credit to Sales of $475 and a credit to Sales Tax Payable of $25.
A journal entry with more than the minimum of one debit and one credit. Example: a debit to Cash of $500 and a credit to Sales of $475 and a credit to Sales Tax Payable of $25.
A rule that requires that the same inventory cost flow be used on the financial statements as is used on the income tax return.
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Income based upon some assumptions.
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An accelerated method of depreciation, where two times the straight-line rate is applied to the book value of an asset. The result is more depreciation expense in the early years and less in the later years of the...
This contra owner’s equity account has a debit balance that represents the current year draws made by the owner, Mary Smith. After the year’s financial statements have been prepared, the balance in this...
See sum-of-the-years’ digits method of depreciation.
Why is the Cash Flow Statement identified as one of the financial statements? The Cash Flow Statement or Statement of Cash Flows is required as part of a full set of financial statements because of the Financial...
See direct labor efficiency variance.
See FOB destination and FOB shipping point.
See working capital.
See petty cash receipt.
The depreciation method that results in the same equal amount of depreciation expense for each full year over the life of the asset. See Explanation of Depreciation for an illustration and further discussion of...
Retailers’ normal operating activities would include the purchase and sale of merchandise and selling and administrative expenses. A retailer’s investing of its idle cash is a nonoperating activity. However,...
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...
The accounting and reporting standards developed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). IFRS are used by business entities in most countries. The most notable exception is the U.S. where business...
A lease where the lessee/tenant pays not only rent, but also the property taxes, insurance, and maintenance.
An effort to have materials delivered by suppliers just as the materials are needed, thereby eliminating the need for the buyer to store inventories of component parts. Obviously, the buyer is relying on the...
Sorting and reporting expenses by the nature of the expense such as salaries, wages, rent, utilities, supplies, depreciation, advertising, and so on.
Under the accrual method of accounting, this account reports the amount of worker compensation insurance expense that pertains to the period indicated in the heading of the income statement, whether or not the company...
See job order costing.
A variance arising in a standard costing system that indicates the difference between the standard amount of variable manufacturing overhead for the good units produced (standard hours times standard rate) and the...
An interest rate that is not explicitly stated. For example, instead of paying $100 cash a person is allowed to pay $9 per month for 12 months. The interest rate is not stated, but the implicit rate can be determined by...
The stockholders’ equity account that represents the amount paid to a corporation for its common stock that was in excess of the common stock’s par value. This account is sometimes referred to as the premium...
Also referred to as the fixed overhead spending variance. The difference between the actual fixed overhead incurred and the amount of fixed overhead that had been budgeted.
One of the types of adjusting entries that are made at the end of the accounting period in order to report (1) revenues that have been earned but have not yet been entered into the accounting records, and/or (2) expenses...
A table of factors that shows what the future value of $1 will grow to if invested at the rate shown in the column heading and compounded for the number of periods indicated in the row.
A reference used to indicate the combination of the Social Security tax and the Medicare tax. For the year 2024, the employee’s portion of the FICA tax is 7.65% (the Social Security tax of 6.2% plus the Medicare...
Selling price per unit minus variable costs per unit, or revenues per unit minus expenses per unit.
Activities involving a batch of products—as opposed to individual items. An example of a batch activity is the setting up of a machine to produce a batch of 1,000 identical items.
The expense incurred during the time interval indicated on the income statement for using rented equipment.
See variable manufacturing overhead spending variance.
A second retained earnings account that reports the amount that a company has transferred from the unappropriated or regular retained earnings account.
Future cash amounts that have not been discounted to their present value.
Either a temporary restriction or a permanent restriction imposed by the donor of an asset when it is contributed to a nonprofit organization.
See job order cost sheet.
The annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a U.S. government agency. The Form 10-K must be filed by corporations whose stock is publicly-traded on a U.S. stock exchange. The report contains the...
It is common for a small quantity to account for most of the value. Examples: 20% of the people may have 80% of the wealth; 20% of the members do 80% of the work; 20% of the items in inventory account for 80% of the...
Assigning more manufacturing overhead to production than the amount that was actually incurred.
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