A publication by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to assist employers with federal payroll taxes. The complete title of the publication is Publication 15 (Circular E), Employer’s Tax Guide. It is available...
A publication by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to assist employers with federal payroll taxes. The complete title of the publication is Publication 15 (Circular E), Employer’s Tax Guide. It is available...
The date a corporation pays a dividend to its shareholders. On this date the accounting entry will be a debit to Dividends Payable and a credit to Cash.
A check often referred to as an NSF check, a rubber check, or a check that bounced. It is a check that was not paid by the bank of the issuer (writer) of the check because the checking account of the issuer did not have...
The increase in a carrying amount. Also see write-up work.
Where is treasury stock reported on the balance sheet? Under the cost method of recording treasury stock, the cost of treasury stock is reported at the end of the Stockholders’ Equity section of the balance sheet....
A long-term asset account that reports a company’s cost of automobiles, trucks, etc. The account is reported under the balance sheet classification property, plant, and equipment. Vehicles are depreciated over...
A current asset account which includes currency, coins, checking accounts, and undeposited checks received from customers. The amounts must be unrestricted. (Restricted cash should be recorded in a different account.)
An owner’s or stockholders’ equity account with a debit balance instead of the normal credit balance. Examples include the owner’s drawing account, a dividend account, and the treasury stock account.
A product that emerges with other products in a common process; however, this product does not have a significant value. (If it had significant value, it would be a joint product.)
A separate line within stockholders’ equity that reports the corporation’s cumulative income that has not been reported as part of net income on the corporation’s income statement. The items that would...
In the equation of a straight line, y = a + bx, ‘bx’ is the total variable cost resulting from the variable cost rate ‘b’ multiplied times the quantity ‘x’.
One of the main financial statements of a nonprofit organization. This financial statement reports the revenues and expenses and the changes in the amounts of each of the classes of net assets during the period shown in...
Assigning more manufacturing overhead to production than the amount that was actually incurred.
The difference between assets and liabilities, such as stockholders’ equity, owner’s equity, or a nonprofit organization’s net assets. Also used to indicate an owner’s interest in a personal...
This is a national organization of certified public accountants. For more information go to www.aicpa.org.
The stockholders’ equity account that represents the amount paid to a corporation for its preferred stock that was in excess of the preferred stock’s par value. This account is sometimes referred to as the...
In the context of inventory this means that the inventory should be reported at the lower of its cost or its net realizable value (NRV). The rule is associated with the conservatism guideline or principle. Net realizable...
See paid-in capital in excess of par value – common stock, or paid-in capital in excess of par value – preferred stock.
This is the expression for replacement cost, which is not an acceptable cost flow, since it violates the cost principle. However, an economist and decision makers would argue that the cost to replace the item is the...
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