One of the main financial statements of a nonprofit organization. This financial statement reports the revenues and expenses and the changes in the amounts of each of the classes of net assets during the period shown in...
One of the main financial statements of a nonprofit organization. This financial statement reports the revenues and expenses and the changes in the amounts of each of the classes of net assets during the period shown in...
The amount that a bank commits to lend a borrower during a specified purpose.
Why does the internal rate of return equate to a net present value of zero? Internal rate of return and net present value are discounted cash flow techniques. To discount means to remove the interest contained within the...
How much of the contribution margin is profit on units sold in excess of the break-even point? After the break-even point is reached, the entire contribution margin on the next units sold will be profit…provided the...
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The systematic allocation of the discount on bonds payable (reported as a debit in a contra-liability account) to Bond Interest Expense over the life of the bonds. The journal entry to amortize contains a debit to the...
Obligations not reported as liabilities on the balance sheet.
The system where the general ledger account Inventory is not updated during the year. Rather, the merchandise purchased is recorded in temporary purchases accounts. At the time a balance sheet is presented, the inventory...
See cost of goods sold.
The sale, retirement, or exchange of property, plant and equipment.
The top ranking financial person in the corporation.
Also known as a journal.
One of the main financial statements (along with the income statement and balance sheet). The statement of cash flows reports the sources and uses of cash by operating activities, investing activities, financing...
Usually the top ranking officer of the corporation who is charged with executing the policies set by the board of directors.
The reduction in inventory quantities resulting in the removal of older layers of costs. With continuously higher costs, the older layers are likely to be low costs under LIFO. Removing these old, low costs will cause an...
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...
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....
The repurchase of bonds by the issuer of the bonds.
A statement that shows the changes in retained earnings from one point to another.
Within a reasonable range of activity, the slope of the cost line is the variable rate, which is often denoted as ‘b’ in the straight line y = a + bx.
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...
A term used in cost accounting to arrive at the cost per unit. The term is associated with the units that are not completed at the end of an accounting period. For example, if 500 units are completed as far as materials,...
In the 1970’s the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) articulated three objectives of financial reporting. In summary, financial information should (1) be useful to investors and lenders, (2) be helpful in...
The recognition that a dollar in the present is more valuable than a dollar in the future. Present-value calculators and present-value tables assist in converting future dollars to the present value in order to make a...
See weighted-average cost flow assumption and moving-average cost of inventory.
The statement of comprehensive income covers the same period of time as the income statement, and consists of two major sections: Net income (taken from the income statement) Other comprehensive income (adjustments...
The incremental cost of storing or holding inventory. It is an annual percentage that includes the cost of rent, insurance, cost of capital, deterioration and obsolescence.
The expensing of an intangible asset from the balance sheet to the income statement.
A top ranking corporation official usually reporting to the chief executive officer and responsible for the operations of the corporation.
A method for recognizing bad debts expense arising from credit sales. Under this method there is no allowance account. Rather, an account receivable is written-off directly to expense only after the account is determined...
A financial statement that shows all of the changes to the various stockholders’ equity accounts during the same period(s) as the income statement and statement of cash flows. It includes the amounts of...
Usually a change in the estimated useful life of an asset or a change in the estimated salvage value. The change usually causes a change in the depreciation expense for the current year and subsequent years. The...
One of the financial statements issued by a nonprofit organization which reports expenses according to both function and nature. Learn more about Nonprofit Accounting.
Cost of goods sold is usually the largest expense on the income statement of a company selling products or goods. Cost of Goods Sold is a general ledger account under the perpetual inventory system. Under the periodic...
The stated legal amount appearing on bonds.
The rate that will discount all cash flows to a net present value of zero.
See liquidation of LIFO layer.
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 term used in evaluating business investments. It represents the targeted rate that a company needs to earn. It is also referred to as the discount rate, because this rate is used to discount the future cash flows to...
For a merchandiser this is the cost of merchandise purchased after deducting purchase returns, purchase allowances, and purchase discounts but after adding freight-in.
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