A loan from a bank or other lender for which the borrower is not required to pledge assets as collateral for the loan.
A loan from a bank or other lender for which the borrower is not required to pledge assets as collateral for the loan.
The provider of goods or services. Also known as the vendor.
Statement of Cash Flows. See Explanation of Cash Flow Statement.
The combination of a manufacturer’s direct labor and factory overhead.
What is a long-term liability? Definition of Long-term Liability A long-term liability is an obligation resulting from a previous event that is not due within one year of the date of the balance sheet (or not due within...
An actual count of the goods owned by the company. The actual counts are then compared to the quantities reported on the detailed inventory records. If a difference exists, the quantity shown on the inventory record...
An average that changes with an additional purchase. See perpetual moving average in Explanation of Inventory and Cost of Goods Sold.
See bond sinking fund.
For a retailer, wholesaler, and distributor the primary activities would be the buying of merchandise and then the sale of that merchandise. A manufacturer’s primary activities would be the production and sale of...
Usually the pay for the hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week. Federal laws require payment for these hours for employees who are not able to control their hours. For example, a company is required to pay a...
A company’s sales in a market as compared to the total sales in that market. For example, General Motors share of the U.S. market has decreased from more than 50% in the 1960’s to its present market share of...
Operating expenses made to return an asset to its previous condition (rather than to make the asset more than it was originally). The amount is charged to an account such as Repairs and Maintenance Expense in the period...
The best fitting line through a series of points as determined by the least-squares method.
See manufacturing costs.
Obligations due within one year of the balance sheet date. (If a company’s operating cycle is longer than one year, an item is a current liability if it is due within the operating cycle.) Another condition is that...
Current assets minus current liabilities.
Another name for check.
Often a U-shaped arrangement of the various machines involved in manufacturing a product. This layout eliminates the need to move the item being manufactured from one area or department of the factory to another. In...
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...
Equipment is a noncurrent or long-term asset account which reports the cost of the equipment. Equipment will be depreciated over its useful life by debiting the income statement account Depreciation Expense and crediting...
What is a lien? Definition of Lien A lien is a legal document filed by a creditor (lender) in order to record its claim on certain assets of the debtor (borrower). The lien is likely filed at the county government office...
A method of costing manufactured items that differs from normal costing and standard costing. Under actual costing each accounting period’s actual manufacturing overhead costs and each accounting period’s...
See functional and natural matrix.
A series of equal amounts at equal time intervals. Also see annuity due, annuity in advance, annuity in arrears, and ordinary annuity.
The symbol that represents the total cost in the equation of the cost line y = a + bx.
A company’s loss before nonoperating or other items. Other or nonoperating items include interest income, interest expense, and gains and losses on sale of assets used in the business, loss on lawsuit, etc.
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...
One hundredth (1/100) of a percentage point. In other words, one percentage point is equal to 100 basis points. The difference between an interest rate of 6.5% and 6.75% is 25 basis points.
Actual changes in cash as opposed to accounting revenues and expenses.
To record accounting entries into a journal.
Amounts spent for property, plant and equipment.
A stated legal amount often appearing on preferred stock, bonds, and some common stock.
See chief operating officer.
See budgetary slack.
An employee’s pretax compensation based on hours worked times an hourly rate of pay. Production workers and nonmanagement employees are usually paid wages. To learn more, see Explanation of Payroll Accounting.
Work-in-progress is the long-term asset account that is used to report the amounts spent on the construction of buildings and equipment until the asset is completed and put into service.
Regular fees or charges often paid to an organization at regular intervals. For example, a state CPA organization might have annual dues of $200.
The systematic allocation of the cost of a natural resource from the balance sheet to the income statement.
See direct labor efficiency variance and direct labor rate variance.
The abbreviation of the accounting and bookkeeping term credit.
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