See inventory shrinkage.
See inventory shrinkage.
A current or future cost that will differ among alternatives. For example, if a company is deciding whether to expand its sales territory, the real estate tax and depreciation on the company’s headquarters building...
See International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
A factory or manufacturing overhead rate used to allocate, apply, assign, or spread indirect product costs to items manufactured. Under traditional cost accounting, the burden rate might be a percentage of direct labor...
What is the meaning of pro rata? Pro rata is a Latin term that means in proportion. Pro rata is related to prorate, a term used in cost accounting. To illustrate the term pro rata, let’s assume that a company’s...
The statement of the Financial Accounting Standards Board with the title Accounting for Contributions Received and Contributions Made. This statement was originally issued in June 1993 and applies to both nonprofit...
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The amount owed to employees as of a specified date for the amount of vacation pay that has been earned but has not been taken. For example, the accrued vacation pay as of December 31, 2023 is the amount the employees...
See quick ratio.
A current liability that includes payroll taxes withheld from employees and payroll taxes that are levied on an employer but have not yet been remitted.
The supplier of goods or services.
The optimum purchase (or production) quantity which minimizes the combined total cost of carrying inventory and processing additional purchase orders (or production setups).
Is the direct method still used in the statement of cash flows? The direct method is one of two methods allowed for preparing the statement of cash flows (or cash flow statement). The direct method is recommended by the...
A corporation’s net income after income taxes minus the dividends pertinent to the preferred shares of stock (if any).
A cost associated with a batch of items, but not directly traceable to an individual item within the batch. For example, the cost to set up a machine to run a batch of 5,000 items is a batch-level cost. This cost must...
The estimated scrap value at the end of the useful life of an asset used in the business. It is also referred to as residual value.
In activity-based costing this refers to the allocation of the cost of activities (determined by stage 1 allocations) to the cost objects such as products or services.
What is the debt to total assets ratio? Definition of Debt to Total Assets Ratio The debt to total assets ratio is an indicator of a company’s financial leverage. It tells you the percentage of a company’s total...
Variable costs and expenses divided by net sales. To learn more, see Explanation of Break-even Point.
Prior to 2018, this term was used by a not-for-profit organization to describe net assets without donor-imposed restrictions. Since 2018, this term has been replaced with the classification net assets without donor...
The financial statements of nonprofits include the statement of financial position, the statement of activities, the statement of cash flows, notes to the financial statements, and the statement of functional expenses....
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.
See sum-of-the-years’ digits method of depreciation.
This is the sum of the beginning inventory of merchandise plus the net cost of the merchandise purchased including freight-in.
This classification of net assets has been replaced by the FASB with the classification net assets with donor restrictions.
A term often used when referring to production workers and other workers who are paid with an hourly pay rate. These workers’ compensation is referred to as “wages” (as opposed to salaries).
A non-operating item resulting from the sale of this long-term asset for less than its carrying amount (or book value).
Federal government securities sold at a discount (because of no interest payments) with maturity dates of less than one year.
The regular retained earnings. Retained earnings that have not been restricted.
This is a non-operating or “other” item resulting from the sale of an asset (other than inventory) for less than the amount shown in the company’s accounting records.
Also referred to as manufacturing overhead, factory burden, factory overhead, and manufacturing support costs. To learn more, see Explanation of Manufacturing Overhead.
A corporation with a limited number of stockholders and whose stock is usually not publicly traded.
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.
See straight-line method of depreciation.
See present value of an annuity due table, present value of an ordinary annuity table, and present value of 1 table.
Stock without a par value.
See paid-in capital in excess of par value – common stock.
The discounted value of a single future amount. To learn more, see our Present Value of a Single Amount Outline.
This term is often associated with an investment in the common stock (and/or preferred stock) of a corporation when the stock is publicly traded.
A formula that calculates the optimum quantity to be purchased (or produced) so as to minimize the combined total cost of carrying inventory and processing additional purchase orders (or production setups). The formula...
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