The top ranking financial person in the corporation.
The top ranking financial person in the corporation.
The amount that a recurring equal amount deposited at the end of each period will grow to under compounded interest. An ordinary annuity is also known as an annuity in arrears.
The statement of the Financial Accounting Standards Board entitled Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Organizations. This statement was originally issued in June 1993 and can be read at no cost at www.FASB.org.
The amount that a recurring equal amount deposited at the beginning of each period will grow to under compounded interest. An annuity due is also known as an annuity in advance.
See death spiral.
Future cash amounts that have not been discounted to their present value.
A loss from holding an asset and the loss has not yet been reported in the financial statements.
The cash amounts received after deducting the related income taxes and also the cash amounts paid after deducting the cash saved when the amounts are income tax deductible.
The amount by which the proceeds from the sale of equipment (that had been used in the business) exceeded its carrying amount at the time it is sold.
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A tax imposed on income earned by a nonprofit that is unrelated to its exempt purpose.
One of the main financial statements of a nonprofit organization. This financial statement reports the amounts of assets, liabilities, and net assets as of a specified date. This financial statement is similar to the...
See working capital.
Federal government securities sold at a discount (because of no interest payments) with maturity dates of less than one year.
This is an operating expense resulting from making sales on credit and not collecting the customers’ entire accounts receivable balances.
See current asset.
Noncurrent assets. Assets that are not intended to be turned into cash or be consumed within one year of the balance sheet date. Long-term assets include long-term investments, property, plant, equipment, intangible...
See present value of an annuity due table, present value of an ordinary annuity table, and present value of 1 table.
Also referred to as factory burden, factory overhead, indirect manufacturing costs, and manufacturing support costs. To learn more, see Explanation of Manufacturing Overhead.
A gain from holding an asset and the gain has not yet been reported in the financial statements. As an example, assume that a company purchased land many years ago and continues to hold the land. The land was purchased...
A predetermined dollar amount that one unit of a finished product should cost during an accounting period.
See prepaid dues.
The supplier of goods or services.
Also referred to as SG&A. For a manufacturer these are expenses outside of the manufacturing function. (However, interest expense and other nonoperating expenses are not included; they are reported separately.)...
Also known as income from operations, which excludes discontinued operations, extraordinary items, and nonoperating items such as interest expense, investment income, gains, and losses.
Sorting and reporting expenses by the nature of the expense such as salaries, wages, rent, utilities, supplies, depreciation, advertising, and so on.
Long-term assets including property, plant, equipment and intangible assets. Buildings, furnishings, fixtures, office equipment, and vehicles are common examples of long-lived assets which are depreciated by nonprofit...
Analyzing financial statements by using financial ratios, horizontal analysis, and vertical analysis. To learn more, see Explanation of Financial Ratios.
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Assigning more manufacturing overhead to production than the amount that was actually incurred.
The cost accounting system where similar units are mass produced. Costs are collected by department and are then assigned to the units produced.
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The regular retained earnings. Retained earnings that have not been restricted.
Life insurance with a cash value (as opposed to term insurance, which does not have a cash value).
The allocation of one year’s income tax expense to the various sections of the income statement. For example, extraordinary items must be reported after income tax on the income statement, while operating revenues...
See inventory carrying costs.
The ratio of total liabilities to stockholders’ equity. The higher the proportion of debt to equity, the more risky the company appears to be. An indicator of the amount of financial leverage at a company. It...
This phrase has two connotations. One is the cost of holding inventory. In this case the carrying cost is the cost of capital tied up in inventory, the cost of storage, insurance, and obsolescence. Often this is...
What are common-size financial statements? Common-size financial statements present the financial statement amounts as a percentage of a base number. For example, the common-size income statement will report the revenue...
An employee fringe benefit provided by an employer that allows employees to be absent from work with pay. Often the number of paid vacation days allowed is based on the number of years of employment.
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