An invoice or other document received from a vendor, supplier, etc. usually for goods or services received. Also a verb to indicate that a customer’s sales invoice should be prepared for goods or services.
An invoice or other document received from a vendor, supplier, etc. usually for goods or services received. Also a verb to indicate that a customer’s sales invoice should be prepared for goods or services.
The assigning or dividing up of amounts. For example, depreciation is an allocation process because it assigns an asset’s cost to expense in each of the years the asset is expected to be used. There is also an...
Raw materials that are a traceable component of a manufactured product. For example, the direct material of a baseball bat is the wood. Flour, sugar, and vegetable oil are direct materials of a company that manufactures...
A current asset representing amounts paid in advance for future expenses. As the expenses are used or expire, expense is increased and prepaid expense is decreased.
The bank account on which checks are written or drawn. A bank refers to checking accounts as demand deposits.
A negative balance in the bank’s records for the company’s checking account.
A term to mean the company’s general ledger or accounting records.
Under the accrual basis of accounting, the Interest Revenues account reports the interest earned by a company during the time period indicated in the heading of the income statement. Interest Revenues account includes...
A term used to describe checks written by a company that have been received and paid by the bank on which they were drawn or written. The check number and amount will appear on the company’s checking account...
A symbol that indicates the variable cost rate and also the slope of a straight line. For example, in the equation of the straight line, y = a + bx, ‘b’ represents the variable cost rate per unit of...
The ability to generate cash.
A dividend paid in assets other than cash.
See perpetual system of inventory.
The party receiving goods to be sold. See consigned goods.
See income statement. To learn more, see Explanation of Income Statement.
The internal growth of a company’s existing businesses. Organic growth excludes the additional sales resulting from acquiring another company.
A temporary account used in the periodic inventory system to record the purchases of merchandise for resale. (Purchases of equipment or supplies are not recorded in the purchases account.) This account reports the gross...
This activity, which involves playing the float, is sometimes used when a company is facing an overdrawn checking account. Assume that a company has a checking account at NY Bank that is about to overdraw. To prevent the...
A series of equal amounts occurring at the end of each equal time interval. Also known as an ordinary annuity. An example would be the monthly payments on a loan. Another example is the semiannual interest on a bond.
See chief executive officer.
The relationship between two variables. There can be correlation without a cause-and-effect relationship. Also see coefficient of correlation.
A document that discloses various conditions and terms of the company’s bonds. It would include the call price, collateral, ramifications if interest is not paid, etc.
The abbreviation for the accounting and bookkeeping term debit.
A type of financial analysis involving income statements and balance sheets. All income statement amounts are divided by the amount of net sales so that the income statement figures will become percentages of net sales....
A past, historical cost. They are called sunk because a past cost cannot be changed and decisions involve only the present and the future.
See direct labor efficiency variance and variable manufacturing overhead efficiency variance.
The amount of an asset’s cost that will be depreciated. It is the cost minus the expected salvage value. For example, if equipment has a cost of $30,000 but is expected to have a salvage value of $3,000 then the...
The result of subtracting all variable expenses from revenues. It indicates the amount available from sales to cover the fixed expenses and profit.
Manufactured products that are often expressed in units, machine hours, etc.
Taking out a loan or issuing bonds in order to acquire an asset or another business.
See temporary accounts.
See U.S. Treasury bills.
An official pronouncement by the Financial Accounting Standards Board that involves a previously issued FASB Standard. FASB Interpretations are part of the generally accepted accounting principles.
Using capital stock (common stock or preferred stock) instead of debt in order to finance an investment such as a plant asset.
The field of study within accounting that is devoted to information needed by the management of the company (as opposed to financial accounting to external parties). Topics covered in managerial accounting include cost...
A person or business that has a checking account or savings account at a bank.
A product that emerges with other products in a common process; however, this product does not have a significant value. (If it had significant value, it would be a joint product.)
A long-term asset which indicates the cost of the constructed improvements to land, such as driveways, walkways, lighting, and parking lots. Land Improvements will be depreciated over their useful life by debiting the...
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