A decrease in the value of a long term asset to an amount that is less than the amount shown under the cost principle.
A decrease in the value of a long term asset to an amount that is less than the amount shown under the cost principle.
Part of a company’s administration that is responsible for preparing the financial statements, maintaining the general ledger, paying bills, billing customers, payroll, cost accounting, financial analysis, and...
The actual cost incurred for manufacturing costs that does not change as production volume changes. Examples include the property tax, rent, and depreciation of the factory building and equipment, and the salaries of the...
A plotting of points that represent both the volume and the associated cost. The y-axis indicates the amount of costs while the x-axis indicates the corresponding volumes.
This ratio relates the costs in inventory to the cost of the goods sold. To learn more about this ratio, see Explanation of Financial Ratios.
The symbol for the number of units of product, number of machine hours, or other indicator of activity or volume as shown in the equation of the cost line y = a + bx.
The benefit foregone by choosing another course of action. Also known as the opportunity cost. The lost opportunity is sometimes measured by the lost contribution margin (sales minus the related variable costs).
Spoilage or waste that is likely to occur and cannot be avoided at a reasonable cost.
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.
An average that changes with an additional purchase. See perpetual moving average in Explanation of Inventory and Cost of Goods Sold.
A stockholders’ equity account with a credit balance. The credit balance results when a corporation sells some of its treasury stock for an amount that exceeds the corporation’s cost of the treasury stock...
Delivery expense to be paid by the seller when its merchandise is sold with terms of FOB destination. This is an operating expense and is not included in the cost of merchandise.
In accounting this refers to the multiplication of quantity times price, or number of units times price or cost per unit.
The current asset which reports the cost of a retailer’s, wholesaler’s, or distributor’s goods purchased to be resold, which have not yet been sold as of the balance sheet date.
A reduction in the cost of goods purchased that is granted by a supplier without the physical return of the goods. Also a general ledger account in which the purchase allowances are recorded under the periodic inventory...
The cost to operate office equipment during a specified time interval.
To assign costs to a product, department, customer, etc. on an arbitrary basis. For example, the heating cost might be allocated to the five departments located in the area that is heated. The allocation is often based...
Expenses that vary with some activity. For example, sales commissions expense and cost of goods sold will be greater when sales are greater; electricity expense will decrease when machine hours are reduced.
A rule that requires that the same inventory cost flow be used on the financial statements as is used on the income tax return.
consisting of current liabilities of $950,000 + noncurrent liabilities of $1,250,000. AMP's total assets were given at $3,000,000. Therefore, AMP's debt to total assets ratio on December 31 was $2,200,000 to...
to the date of the sale. Next, the asset’s cost and its accumulated depreciation are removed from the accounts. Any money received is debited to Cash and any gain or loss on the sale is also recorded.] Example of a...
Why is depreciation on the income statement different from the depreciation on the balance sheet? Definition of Depreciation Depreciation is the systematic allocation of an asset’s cost to expense over the useful life...
for. The weekly payroll would have to be divided between months.) The cost of cattle was the largest cost, but that cost was available for each day, since cattle had to be paid for within 24 hours of purchase. It would...
What is gross margin? Definition of Gross Margin Gross margin is the amount remaining after a retailer or manufacturer subtracts its cost of goods sold from its net sales. In other words, gross margin is the retailer’s...
be reflected in the company’s general ledger accounts: Any unrecorded depreciation up until the time of the sale must be recorded with a debit to Depreciation Expense and a credit to Accumulated Depreciation The...
What is the death spiral? Definition of Death Spiral In cost accounting and managerial accounting, the term death spiral refers to the repeated elimination of a manufacturer’s products which will result in spreading...
%). If the corporation’s income tax rate on this increment is 30%, the corporation will save paying income taxes of $240,000 ($800,000 X 30%). Due to the income tax savings, the net cost of the borrowed money is...
Are income taxes affected by accelerated depreciation? Definition of Accelerated Depreciation Accelerated depreciation means the cost of an asset used in a business will be charged to Depreciation Expense at a faster...
receivable turnover ratio. days' sales in accounts receivable (or) average collection period This is the result of dividing 365 or 360 days by the accounts receivable turnover ratio. Mark as wrong Mark as right...
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financial statements is computed by using the estimated years of an asset’s __________. Select... physical life useful life 7. Several years ago, a company purchased land at a cost of $100,000. Today the land has a...
as right depreciation This is the systematic allocation of a plant asset’s cost to expense over the useful life of the asset in order to match an asset’s cost to the accounting periods in which the asset is used....
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...
A ratio consisting of an income statement account balance divided by the average balance of a balance sheet account. For example, the inventory turnover is computed as follows: Cost of Goods Sold divided by the average...
The amount of a long-term asset’s cost that has been allocated to Depreciation Expense since the time that the asset was acquired. Accumulated Depreciation is a long-term contra asset account (an asset account with...
A current asset which indicates the cost of the insurance contract (premiums) that have been paid in advance. It represents the amount that has been paid but has not yet expired as of the balance sheet date. A related...
A variance arising in a standard costing system that indicates the difference between 1) the standard cost of the direct labor that should have been used (the standard hours times the standard rate) for the good output,...
This is the bottom line of the income statement. It is the mathematical result of revenues and gains minus the cost of goods sold and all expenses and losses (including income tax expense if the company is a regular...
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