be: Revenues (sales, service fees) that were earned during the accounting period Expenses (cost of goods sold, salaries, rent, advertising, etc.) that match the revenues being reported or have expired during the...
be: Revenues (sales, service fees) that were earned during the accounting period Expenses (cost of goods sold, salaries, rent, advertising, etc.) that match the revenues being reported or have expired during the...
, the company’s financial statements can use straight-line depreciation over the 10 years while the income tax return is using an accelerated method of depreciation over the 7 years.) The difference in each year’s...
of money, the smaller the amount of the discount. In turn, a larger discount will mean a smaller present value. A smaller discount will result in a greater present value. DCF is also useful for calculating the...
, the company purchases a new machine for $300,000 that is expected to have no salvage value at the end of its 10-year useful life. If the company uses the straight-line method of depreciation, the depreciation expense...
, gains and losses (except for items stipulated as other comprehensive income) for a period of time such as a year, quarter, 13 months, etc. Statement of comprehensive income. This financial statement begins with the...
of interest paid must be disclosed. If a corporation prepares its cash flow statement using the direct method, the amount of interest paid should appear as a separate line in cash flows from operating activities. [The...
the asset’s book value An unfavorable settlement of a lawsuit against the company The retirement of bonds payable at a cost that is greater than the carrying value of the bonds Loss is also used to describe write-down...
Unscramble MATCHING AMTHNIGC Unscramble 2. Another name for book value is _________ value. CARRYING GIRCANYR Unscramble CARRYING CARRGYNI Unscramble 3. When an asset is depreciated using the _____________-line method,...
, product line, and so on. Nonoperating expenses which pertain to a company’s incidental activities. A common nonoperating expense for a retailer is interest expense. Join PRO to Track Progress Mark the Question as...
life of the cell phones could be 10 years). Also assume that the company has purchased 100 smart phones at a total cost of $120,000. The company also estimates that the phones will have no salvage value at the end of...
, Plant and Equipment. At that point, the depreciation of the addition will begin. (If a company is constructing an assembly line or a huge machine that will take time to build, the amounts would also be accumulated in...
Cost on Income Statement Let’s assume that a company buys equipment for $100,000 and it is expected to be used for 10 years with no salvage value at the end of its useful life. Using the straight-line method of...
– $25,000) is divided by the 5 years of useful life to arrive at the straight-line depreciation expense of $60,000 for a full year or $5,000 per month ($300,000/60 months). Accountants and income tax regulations...
that are recorded in income statement accounts. This allows the balance sheet account Owner’s Capital (or Retained Earnings) to avoid having all of the thousands or millions of revenue and expense transactions from...
account that is used to record the interest incurred. Lastly, interest expense is usually a separate line on a company’s income statement that indicates the amount that occurred during the period appearing in the...
could be less than the cost of not filing a customer’s order on time or having to stop its production line. Example of Safety Stock Assume that a company uses the economic order quantity (EOQ) model to determine the...
of the revenues will be available (after the variable expenses are covered) for the fixed expenses and net income. The contribution margin amount or ratio (ratio) can be presented for: The company as a whole A product...
's or stockholders' equity will be too high Note: There was no change in AVCO’s cash as of December 31. 5. JOYCO (who uses the periodic inventory method) receives a vendor’s invoice with credit terms of...
by the utility after six months of timely payments. The new business will record the deposit with a $500 debit to the current asset account Utilities Deposits and will credit the asset account Cash for $500. The...
certificate for merchandise or services. Accounting for the Sale of Gift Certificates The sale of a gift certificate should be recorded with a debit to Cash and a credit to a liability account such as Gift Certificates...
How do you record a check that clears the bank months after it was voided? Since you had voided the check months earlier, your general ledger no longer reflects 1) the original credit to the cash account, and 2) the...
but is unpaid should be recorded with a debit to Interest Expense and a credit to the current liability Interest Payable. Example of Recording Unpaid Interest Let’s assume that on December 10, a company made its...
of Adjusting the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts The balance in the account Allowance for Doubtful Accounts should be the estimated amount of the company’s receivables that will not be turning to cash. For example, if...
of an interest payment of $500 and a principal payment of $1,500. The company’s entry to record the loan payment will be: Debit of $500 to Interest Expense Debit of $1,500 to Loans Payable Credit of $2,000 to Cash The...
but have not yet been recorded in the accounting records should be entered or recorded through an accrual adjusting entry which will: Debit Wages Expense Credit Wages Payable or credit Accrued Wages Payable Wages...
. If the employee is paying (reimbursing) the company immediately, you can record the entire phone bill with a debit of $100 to the company’s account Telephone Expense. You will also credit Telephone Expense for $20...
, but the adjusted account balances will be reported on the financial statements. The adjusted trial balance (as well as the unadjusted trial balance) must have the total amount of the debit balances equal to the total...
as follows: Credit to its Land account for its cost of $200,000 Debit to its Cash account for the $500,000 it received Credit to the income statement account Gain on Sale of Real Estate for $300,000 Join PRO to Track...
is headed Debit and the other column is headed Credit Each account’s balance is listed in the appropriate column After all of the account balances are entered, each column is summed The total of the debit column...
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts is a contra current asset account associated with Accounts Receivable. When the credit balance of the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts is subtracted from the debit balance in Accounts...
is good or bad, sufficient or insufficient, etc. depends on many factors including the composition of the company’s current assets, the speed at which the company’s sales turn into cash, the credit terms of its...
is as follows: Debit to Other Receivables-Advances to Employees for $800 Credit to Cash for $800 When the company earns interest on an employee loan or advance, the company should credit the amount earned to Interest...
of the amounts reported in the asset accounts. If the source of an asset was an investor purchasing new shares of common stock, the corporation would credit the stockholders’ equity account Common Stock and perhaps...
balances). However, the debit balance amounts are entered in one column and the credit balance amounts are entered in another column. Each column is then summed to prove that the total of the debit balances is equal to...
examples when the term carrying amount or carrying value is used: A company’s Accounts Receivable has a debit balance of $84,000. The company’s Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has a credit balance of $3,000. The...
of products and its credit terms are 1/10, n/30. This means that the buyer can satisfy the $900 obligation if it pays $891 ($900 minus $9 of sales discount) within 10 days. The alternative is for the buyer to...
Why would a balance sheet list current liabilities as negative amounts? Reasons for Negative Current Liabilities on a Balance Sheet Some older accounting software used minus signs or parentheses to indicate credit...
What is a liability account? Definition of Liability Account A liability account is a general ledger account in which a company records the following which resulted from business transactions: Amounts owed to suppliers...
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