A liability account that reports the amount a company owes as of the date of the balance sheet for the company’s pension plan. Information on pensions can be found in an Intermediate Accounting textbook.
A liability account that reports the amount a company owes as of the date of the balance sheet for the company’s pension plan. Information on pensions can be found in an Intermediate Accounting textbook.
A cost that can be traced to a cost object. For example, the flour used in baking bread is a direct cost of a bakery’s bread. The wages and salaries of the employees working exclusively in a manufacturer’s...
The indirect manufacturing costs actually incurred during an accounting period.
An amount that should be charged to the current accounting period as an expense.
A weighted average cost used with the periodic inventory system. To learn more, see Explanation of Inventory and Cost of Goods Sold.
Support that has been either temporarily or permanently restricted by the donor.
Also referred to as manufacturing overhead, indirect manufacturing costs, factory burden, and manufacturing support costs. To learn more, see Explanation of Manufacturing Overhead.
Costs that have been used up or consumed. Expired costs are reported as expenses. (Costs that have not yet expired are reported as assets.)
Buildings is a noncurrent or long-term asset account which shows the cost of a building (excluding the cost of the land). Buildings will be depreciated over their useful lives by debiting the income statement account...
A person who is considered to be both the employer and the employee. For example, the sole owner of a sole proprietorship is self-employed.
Cash that can be used only for the purpose intended.
Costing system wherein fixed manufacturing overhead is allocated to (or absorbed by) products being manufactured. This system, which treats fixed manufacturing costs as a product cost, is required for external financial...
Costs that have been divided up and assigned to periods, departments, products, etc. In depreciation it is the asset’s cost that is assigned to each of the years that the asset is in use. In cost accounting it is...
Often a 1% or 2% discount that a buyer may deduct from the amount owed to a supplier (if stated on the supplier’s invoice) for paying in 10 days instead of the customary 30 days. The purchase discount is also...
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...
See discounted cash flow model.
The estimated volume in a future period that will be used for allocating indirect manufacturing costs.
A special or specialized journal to record sales of merchandise to customers. In a manual system this saves a significant amount of recording time. In today’s computerized environment, sales are recorded...
See time period assumption.
Suppliers. Companies that provide goods or services.
Is an automobile loan payment an expense? Only the interest portion of an automobile loan payment is an expense. The principal portion of the loan payment is a reduction of the loan balance, which is reported as a Note...
The entry made in a journal. It will contain the date, the account name and amount to be debited, and the account name and amount to be credited. Each journal entry must have the dollars of debits equal to the dollars of...
Long term assets that are not classified as investments, property, plant, equipment, or intangible assets. An example is bond issue costs that are amortized to expense over the life of the bonds.
The depreciation computed for financial reporting purposes—as opposed to income tax depreciation. To learn more, see Explanation of Depreciation.
A discount that often varies by customer. For example, a company may sell its products to a variety of resellers. Some of the resellers might buy $1 million of products each year, other resellers might purchase $100,000,...
Under the accrual basis of accounting the account Supplies Expense reports the amount of supplies that were used during the time interval indicated in the heading of the income statement. Supplies that are on hand...
See accrued rent expense. Also see accrued rent income.
See electronic funds transfer.
A term often used in present value calculations to distinguish a one-time cash amount from an annuity (or series of equal payments).
The compensation earned by hourly-paid employees during the interval of time indicated in the heading of the income statement. Under the accrual basis of accounting, the date that wages are paid does not determine when...
Paper evidence of ownership in a corporation. The certificate would indicate the type of stock (common, preferred), any restrictions pertaining to the sale of the stock, the number of shares, the par value, etc. Today,...
A bill issued by a seller of merchandise or by the provider of services. The seller refers to the invoice as a sales invoice and the buyer refers to the same invoice as a vendor invoice.
Usually a permanently restricted asset for which the principal portion must be retained indefinitely. The earnings from an endowment fund could be unrestricted or temporarily restricted.
from early-payment discounts. (Early-payment discounts of 1% or 2% are usually recorded by the seller in an account such as Sales Discounts and by the buyer using the periodic inventory method in an account such as...
A promise to repair, replace, refund, etc. a product during a specified period. The company making the promise has a contingent liability and a warranty expense that should be recorded at the time the product is sold.
A lender or supplier who is owed money but does not have a lien on any of the assets of the company that owes the money. If the company that owes the money is liquidated, the unsecured lender receives money only after...
Occurring twice per month. For example, if salaried personnel are paid on the 15th and the last day of the month, we would say they are paid semimonthly. People paid semimonthly will receive 24 paychecks during a year....
Future amounts that have been discounted to the present.
The number of years needed to recover the cash amount invested in a project. The calculation uses cash flows rather than accounting income flows. Generally the cash flows are not discounted to reflect the time value of...
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