The accounting guideline that permits the violation of another accounting guideline if the amount is insignificant. For example, a profitable company with several million dollars of sales is likely to expense immediately...
The accounting guideline that permits the violation of another accounting guideline if the amount is insignificant. For example, a profitable company with several million dollars of sales is likely to expense immediately...
Our Explanation of Depreciation emphasizes what the depreciation amounts on the income statement and balance sheet represent. Learn why depreciation is an estimated expense that does not assist in determining the current...
Our Explanation of Depreciation emphasizes what the depreciation amounts on the income statement and balance sheet represent. Learn why depreciation is an estimated expense that does not assist in determining the current...
Our Explanation of Depreciation emphasizes what the depreciation amounts on the income statement and balance sheet represent. Learn why depreciation is an estimated expense that does not assist in determining the current...
Our Explanation of Financial Ratios includes calculations and descriptions of 15 financial ratios. As you calculate the financial ratios you will also gain a deeper understanding of a company's operations and financial...
of accounting. Examples of Adjusting Entries The following are hypothetical examples of adjusting entries: Each day the company incurs wages expense for its hourly-paid employees. However, the payroll that includes the...
issue costs to Interest Expense over the remaining life of the bonds. (Bonds are likely to mature 10 years or more after they are issued.) The most precise way to amortize these amounts is to use the effective interest...
plan, a deferred profit sharing plan, and/or a charitable giving plan may require an expense of 25% of its pretax profits. In addition, a U.S. corporation might have a combined federal and state income tax rate of...
depreciation expense is recorded. When an asset is disposed of (sold, retired, scrapped) the credit balance in Accumulated Depreciation is reduced when the asset’s credit balance is removed by debiting Accumulated...
. The entry to write off the bad account under the direct write-off method is: Debit Bad Debts Expense (to report the amount of the loss on the company’s income statement) Credit Accounts Receivable (to remove the...
income. However, there are two noteworthy differences: The income statement of the sole proprietorship does not report as an expense any salary or wages for the owner working in the business. However, the regular...
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 Income Statement helps you learn the most important features of a corporation's income statement (also known as the statement of operations or profit and loss statement). We provide more understanding...
the reasons why a company can have an accounting net loss but have a positive net cash inflow. Example of Net Loss But a Positive Cash Flow A common adjustment to a company’s accrual accounting net income or net loss...
for calling on customers. For this service, New Corp agrees to pay commissions of 5% of sales with payment made 10 days after the month ends. Assuming that December’s sales are $100,000 New Corp will be incurring...
Bookkeeping Video Training Part 13 Sales on credit: risk, unsecured accounts receivable, aging to monitor allowance for doubtful accounts, bad debts expense Must-Watch Video Learn How to Advance Your Accounting and...
Bookkeeping Video Training Part 9 Adjusting entries: depreciation expense and accumulated depreciation reported on financial statements, useful life of the asset Must-Watch Video Learn How to Advance Your Accounting and...
Our income statement shows wide fluctuations in utilities expense from month to month. I suspect our accounting is not proper. Any suggestions? Under accrual accounting, your income statement should report the amount for...
adjusting entry that debits Vacation Expense for $200 (10 hours X $20 per hour) and credits Vacation Liability for $200. As a result, the balance in the balance sheet account Vacation Liability at December 31 is $2,400...
in Allowance for Doubtful Accounts reduces the amount reported on a company’s balance sheet for accounts receivable to the amount that is expected to be collected. The balance sheet account Allowance for Doubtful...
What does the cost principle mean for a company's income statement? If a company has buildings, equipment and inventory, the cost principle will mean that the amount of depreciation expense and the cost of goods...
What is a revenue expenditure? Definition of Revenue Expenditure A revenue expenditure is a cost that will be an expense in the accounting period when the expenditure takes place. Revenue expenditures are often discussed...
of cash flows. Let’s use the following amounts to illustrate this situation. A company’s income statement for a recent year reported revenues of $2,000,000 and expenses of $2,075,000 for a net loss of $75,000. The...
Where is interest on a note payable reported on the cash flow statement? Definition of Interest on a Note Payable The interest on a note payable is reported on the income statement as Interest Expense. Usually this means...
that the company’s balance sheet will report the net realizable value of $194,800. If the balance in the Allowance account was $0, the company will write an adjusting entry to: Debit the income statement account such...
What is the transaction approach and balance sheet approach to measuring net income? The transaction approach to measuring net income is the traditional bookkeeping and accounting method. That is, individual transactions...
Is depreciation a temporary account? Definition of Depreciation Accounts There are two types of general ledger accounts in which depreciation is recorded: Depreciation Expense which is a temporary account since it is an...
What is the difference between a contingent liability and an estimated liability? Definition of a Contingent Liability A contingent liability is a potential liability (and a potential loss or potential expense). For a...
What entry is made when selling a fixed asset? Defining the Entries When Selling a Fixed Asset When a fixed asset or plant asset is sold, there are several things that must take place: The fixed asset’s depreciation...
invoices. MATCH MCTAH Unscramble MATCH CMATH Unscramble 4. Vendor invoices for repairs and maintenance are likely debited to this type of account. EXPENSE EPXSNEE Unscramble EXPENSE XENEEPS Unscramble 5. This type of...
What is straight line depreciation? Definition of Straight-Line Depreciation Straight-line depreciation is the most common method of allocating the cost of a plant asset to expense in the accounting periods during which...
of the amount of the accounts receivable that will be turning to cash, since some customers may not pay the full amount owed to the company. The credit balance in the allowance account is an estimate amount in an...
Why isn't the direct write off method of uncollectible accounts receivable the preferred method? Definition of Direct Write Off Method Under the direct write off method of accounting for credit losses pertaining to...
that the balance sheet reports the net amount that is expected to be collected. The credit balance in the Allowance account is associated with the income statement account Bad Debts Expense. In other words, when a...
Why is Accumulated Depreciation an asset account? Definition of Accumulated Depreciation The account Accumulated Depreciation reports the total amount of depreciation expense that has been recorded from the time the...
be an increase to the net profit. If the business is a regular corporation, net profit may mean after income tax expense. Example of Net Profit Assume that a sole proprietorship business had the following information...
sheet account that is reported under the heading of Property, Plant and Equipment. The asset’s cost (except for the cost of land) will then be allocated to depreciation expense over the useful life of the asset. The...
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