14. The current ratio and the quick ratio are indicators of a company's ___________. LIQUIDITY QULYIITID Unscramble LIQUIDITY TYLIIDQIU Unscramble 15. The profit margin ratio and the return on assets are indicators...
14. The current ratio and the quick ratio are indicators of a company's ___________. LIQUIDITY QULYIITID Unscramble LIQUIDITY TYLIIDQIU Unscramble 15. The profit margin ratio and the return on assets are indicators...
Method Assume that the cost of electricity at a small manufacturing facility is a mixed cost since the company has only one electricity meter for air quality, cooling, lighting, and for its production equipment. The...
Our Explanation of Accounting Equation (or bookkeeping equation) illustrates how the double-entry system keeps the accounting equation in balance. You will see how the revenues and expenses on the income statement are...
Our Explanation of Present Value of an Ordinary Annuity uses the appropriate present value factors for discounting a stream of equal cash amounts occurring at equal time intervals. An important feature is the use of loan...
Our Explanation of Accounts Receivable and Bad Debts Expense helps you understand the accounting for the losses associated with selling goods and providing services on credit. You will understand the impact on the...
Our Explanation of Standard Costing uses an easy-to-relate to example for illustrating a manufacturer's standard costs and variances. Also provided is a chart which indicates each variance, what it tells you, and where...
and variable costing Neither absorption nor variable costing Use the following information for answering Questions 21 - 25: During the past year a company budgeted, manufactured, and sold 100,000 units of its only...
textbooks often present two types of income statement formats: Multiple-step. This format has more than one subtraction before displaying the company’s net income. The following is a condensed version of a...
Our Explanation of Present Value of an Ordinary Annuity uses the appropriate present value factors for discounting a stream of equal cash amounts occurring at equal time intervals. An important feature is the use of loan...
are FOB __________. 6. FIFO is an inventory __________ __________ assumption. 7. When a company uses FIFO, its inventory might be reported at the lower of __________ or __________ __________ __________. 8. The inventory...
Under the accrual method of accounting, the account Salaries Expense reports the salaries that employees have earned during the period indicated in the heading of the income statement, whether or not the company has yet...
adjustments when reconciling the bank statement. For example, if a check is written in December but is voided in January, the Cash account in the company’s general ledger will need to be increased when the check is...
The amount of income tax that is associated with (matches) the net income reported on the company’s income statement. This amount will likely be different than the income taxes actually payable, since some of the...
bank fees would be better recorded in a separate account such as Bank Service Charges instead of recording them in Miscellaneous Expenses. Miscellaneous expense may also be the description on a company’s income...
An accounting guideline where the U.S. dollar is assumed to be constant (no change in purchasing power) over time. This allows an accountant to add one dollar from a transaction in 2010 to one dollar in 2024 and to show...
One of the main financial statements (along with the balance sheet, the statement of cash flows, and the statement of stockholders’ equity). The income statement is also referred to as the profit and loss...
This is an owner’s equity account. The balance in this account reflects the owner’s investment in this sole proprietorship plus the net income and minus the owner’s draws since the company began. (The...
Losses result from the sale of an asset (other than inventory) for less than the amount shown on the company’s books. Since the loss is outside of the main activity of a business, it is reported as a nonoperating...
How do you account for a project under construction? Accounting for a Project Under Construction If a company is constructing a major project such as a building, assembly line, etc., the amounts spent on the project will...
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 ABC inventory system is different from activity-based costing. The ABC inventory system is used in order to focus on the most important items in inventory. Usually a relatively few items will account for a very...
Temporary differences between the reporting of a revenue or expense for financial statements (books) and the reporting of the item for income tax purposes. For example, it is common for companies to depreciate equipment...
used to describe a division or segment of a company that consistently generates substantial amounts of excess cash. Join PRO to Track Progress Mark the Question as Read Must-Watch Video Learn How to Advance Your...
The type of stock that is present at every corporation. (Some corporations have preferred stock in addition to their common stock.) Shares of common stock provide evidence of ownership in a corporation. Holders of common...
Administrative expenses are part of the operating expenses (along with selling expenses). Administrative expenses include expenses associated with the general administration of the business. Examples include the salaries...
a standard cost of $400 but the company paid $422, the financial statement must report $422 (the standard cost of $400 plus the price variance of $22). How the variances are reported on the financial statements is...
The costs incurred to bring an asset back to an earlier condition or to keep the asset operating at its present condition (as opposed to improving the asset). For example, if a company truck is damaged, the cost to...
. For example, a company may arrange with its bank to borrow money as needed but never owe the bank in excess of $500,000. The agreement might specify that interest will be calculated by multiplying the prime rate times...
income statement will be able to easily and quickly focus on the company’s net income and its key components. Join PRO to Track Progress Mark the Question as Read Must-Watch Video Learn How to Advance Your Accounting...
A dividend in the form of more shares of stock. A 5% stock dividend means that a stockholder holding 100 shares would receive 5 additional shares of stock. Since all shareholders receive additional shares, each...
Under the accrual basis of accounting, this account reports the cost of the electricity, heat, sewer, and water used during the period indicated in the heading of the income statement. Because utility companies deliver...
A term associated with petty cash. Replenish means to return the amount of actual cash in the petty cash box back to the amount appearing in the general ledger account Petty Cash. This is done whenever the amount of...
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 rolling budget adds a future accounting period’s budget to replace a budget for an accounting period that has past. For example, a company’s 2024 annual budget will become a rolling budget if in February...
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...
, unsold items in inventory. If the same items have been sitting in inventory for years, there are potential accounting issues. For example, the value of the items may be less than their costs due to obsolescence or...
a delivery truck with a cost of $100,000 and it is expected to be used for 5 years. If we also assume that the truck will have no salvage value, the company will record depreciation expense of $100,000 over the five...
The allocation of common costs based on the sales value of the products that emerge. For example, a company develops a large parcel of land at a cost of $5 million dollars. Individual lots will be sold for $100,000 to...
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