of the accounts receivable activity in a subsidiary ledger, employees in a company’s credit department of a company can access the credit sales information without having access to any information in the general...
of the accounts receivable activity in a subsidiary ledger, employees in a company’s credit department of a company can access the credit sales information without having access to any information in the general...
by the employer, the amount is based on each employee’s wages, salary, commissions, etc. Often the FUTA tax ends up being 0.6% (6% minus a credit of 5.4%) of the first $7,000 per year of each employee’s wages,...
incurred, the products have overabsorbed the overhead costs. At the end of the accounting year, the amount of the overapplied, overassigned, or overabsorbed overhead is often credited to the cost of goods sold. The...
What is accumulated depreciation? Definition of Accumulated Depreciation Accumulated depreciation is the total amount of a plant asset’s cost that has been allocated to depreciation expense (or to manufacturing...
30, and will not include the goods in transit as its December 31 inventory. On December 31, the customer (buyer) is the owner of the goods in transit and will need to report a purchase, a payable, and must include the...
. The most common responsibility centers are the numerous departments within a company. Examples of Responsibility Centers Responsibility centers are often categorized by the degree of authority and responsibility given...
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...
by reading our Nonmanufacturing Overhead (Explanation). 1. Selling expenses should be allocated to the cost of goods sold for external financial reporting. True Wrong. False Right! 2. According to U.S. accounting...
What is the normal balance of the direct materials variance accounts? I don’t believe there is a normal balance. If a company pays exactly the standard cost of its direct materials, there will be no balance in the...
What is a capital expenditure versus a revenue expenditure? Definition of Capital Expenditure A capital expenditure is an amount spent to acquire or significantly improve the capacity or capabilities of a long-term asset...
What is insurance expense? Definition of Insurance Expense Under the accrual basis of accounting, insurance expense is the cost of insurance that has been incurred, has expired, or has been used up during the current...
What is the difference between a land improvement and a leasehold improvement? Definition of Land Improvement A land improvement is a long-term (long-lived) asset resulting from a physical addition to a company’s land....
Is contribution margin the same as operating income? Definition of Contribution Margin Contribution margin is defined as revenues minus the variable costs and variable expenses. Example of Contribution Margin Assume that...
Our Explanation of Nonmanufacturing Overhead provides examples of a manufacturer's expenses which are not considered to be costs of a product for financial reporting. However, they are operating expenses that will have...
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...
A cost and/or volume of activity that is outside of an expected range.
The acronym for cost of goods sold.
See cost-volume-profit (CVP).
Our Explanation of Payroll Accounting discusses the taxes and benefits which are withheld from employees' pay as well as the taxes and benefits that are expenses for the employers. Also provided are examples of the...
Are depreciation, depletion and amortization similar? In accounting the terms depreciation, depletion and amortization often involve the movement of costs from the balance sheet to the income statement in a systematic...
. For example, a small retailer can compare her cost of goods sold (perhaps 78%) to a much larger retailer’s cost of goods sold (perhaps 80%). Similarly, one company’s inventory might be 33% (of total assets) while a...
What are the accounting principles, assumptions, and concepts? Definition of Accounting Principles, Assumptions, and Concepts The basic underlying accounting principles, assumptions, and concepts include the following:...
How do you calculate an asset's salvage value? Definition of Asset Salvage Value In accounting, an asset’s salvage value is the estimated amount that a company will receive at the end of a plant asset’s useful...
balance could begin by comparing the balance with an aging of the accounts receivable. Another example is reconciling the balance in the general ledger account Utilities Payable. This might be accomplished by computing...
What is gross profit? Definition of Gross Profit Gross profit is defined as net sales minus the cost of goods sold. Gross profit is sometimes referred to as gross margin. (However, gross margin can also mean the gross...
Why isn't a key employee reported as an asset on the balance sheet? While an employee could be an organization’s most valuable asset, accountants record past transactions that can be measured. Since an employee...
service department is responsible for its costs. Hence, the service departments are separate cost centers. The costs incurred by the service departments are considered to be indirect manufacturing costs that ultimately...
What is the difference between an invoice and a statement? Definition of an Invoice An invoice received from a supplier shows the items purchased, the cost per unit, the total cost or extension of each item, the total of...
for the company’s: Financial statements General ledger Cost accounting Payroll Accounts payable Accounts receivable Budgeting Special analyses as well as other duties At larger companies the controller may be assisted...
What is leverage? Definition of Leverage In accounting and finance, leverage is the use of a significant amount of debt to purchase an asset, operate a company, acquire another company, etc. Since the cost of debt is...
How does an expense affect the balance sheet? Definition of Expense An expense is a cost that has been used up, expired, or is directly related to the earning of revenues. Most of a company’s expenses fall into the...
of Sundry Debtors I suspect that the term sundry was more common when bookkeeping was done manually. For instance, prior to the low cost of computers and accounting software, the bookkeeper had to add a page to the...
How do you record the sale of land? Definition of Sale of Land Assume that a retailer sells land that it had been holding for a future store. The retailer must remove the cost of the land from its general ledger asset...
realizable value (NRV) that is less than the cost of the inventory, it may choose to keep the original costs in its Inventory account and to reduce the reported amount of inventory through a contra inventory account...
the insured company will be paid the cost of the inventory lost minus the amount of the insurance policy deductible. Example of Recording Insurance Claim for Inventory Loss Assume that a company received $105,000 from...
is credited to this account and then amortized with a credit to interest expense over the life of the bonds. Mark as wrong Mark as right straight-line amortization This is a common method for systematically moving bond...
This stockholders’ equity account will have a credit balance from selling some of its treasury stock for more than its cost. paid-in capital from treasury stock This stockholders’ equity account will have a credit...
Our Explanation of Working Capital and Liquidity provides you with an in-depth look at the components of working capital and the challenges of converting current assets to cash before obligations come due. You will see...
Our Explanation of Accounting Principles provides you with clear and concise descriptions of the basic underlying guidelines of accounting. You will see how the accounting principles affect the balance sheet and income...
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