What is the difference between stock dividend and cash dividend? Definition of a Stock Dividend A stock dividend is a dividend consisting of additional shares of stock. Assume that before a corporation declares a stock...
What is the difference between stock dividend and cash dividend? Definition of a Stock Dividend A stock dividend is a dividend consisting of additional shares of stock. Assume that before a corporation declares a stock...
How do you calculate the actual or real interest rate on a bond investment? Definition of Actual or Real Interest Rate on a Bond Investment The actual or real interest rate on a bond payable is also known as effective...
This classification of net assets has been replaced by the FASB with the classification net asset with donor restrictions.
Also referred to as SG&A. For a manufacturer these are expenses outside of the manufacturing function. (However, interest expense and other nonoperating expenses are not included; they are reported separately.)...
Financial statement and other financial information distributed to people outside of a company.
A balance sheet line to report short-term liabilities that are too insignificant to be identified separately.
U.S. social security system.
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A term used in cost accounting to arrive at the cost per unit. The term is associated with the units that are not completed at the end of an accounting period. For example, if 500 units are completed as far as materials,...
See current ratio.
How does the purchase of a new machine affect the profit and loss statement? Definition of New Machine’s Effect on Profit The purchase of a new machine that will be used in a business will affect the profit and loss...
The ABC inventory system is different from activity-based costing. The ABC inventory system is used in order to focus on the most important items in inventory. Usually a relatively few items will account for a very...
A reference used to indicate the combination of the Social Security tax and the Medicare tax. For the year 2024, the employee’s portion of the FICA tax is 7.65% (the Social Security tax of 6.2% plus the Medicare...
A process which discounts future cash flows to the present in order to reflect the time value of money. Examples of the discounted cash flow model are net present value and internal rate of return.
See direct labor efficiency variance.
, and A credit to Accumulated Depreciation (a contra-asset account that is reported in the same section of the balance sheet as the asset that is being depreciated). Join PRO to Track Progress Mark the Question as Read...
A stockholders’ equity account with a credit balance. The credit balance results when a corporation sells some of its treasury stock for an amount that exceeds the corporation’s cost of the treasury stock...
An effort to have materials delivered by suppliers just as the materials are needed, thereby eliminating the need for the buyer to store inventories of component parts. Obviously, the buyer is relying on the...
What is the difference between inventory and the cost of goods sold? Definition of Inventory Inventory for a retailer or distributor is the merchandise that was purchased and has not yet been sold to customers. A...
A method used by retailers to achieve the LIFO cost flow without tracking individual units. A further advantage is that pools of products are used. This will likely mean less liquidation of LIFO cost layers that would...
Under the accrual method of accounting, this account reports the employer’s portion of the Social Security and Medicare tax that pertains to the period indicated in the heading of the income statement, whether or...
An owner’s equity account that reports the amount the sole proprietor invested in the company plus earnings of the company not withdrawn by the owner.
What are operating expenses? Definition of Operating Expenses Operating expenses are the costs that have been used up (expired) as part of a company’s main operating activities during the period shown in the heading of...
An asset account used to record a loan to another party that has real estate as collateral.
In the 1970’s the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) articulated three objectives of financial reporting. In summary, financial information should (1) be useful to investors and lenders, (2) be helpful in...
The discounted value of a single future amount. To learn more, see our Present Value of a Single Amount Outline.
Also known as income from operations, which excludes discontinued operations, extraordinary items, and nonoperating items such as interest expense, investment income, gains, and losses.
This is a non-operating or “other” item resulting from the sale of an asset (other than inventory) for less than the amount shown in the company’s accounting records.
Income based upon some assumptions.
A budget that continuously shows the amounts for a full year into the future. As a month or quarter actually occurs, it is removed from the budget and is replaced by the budgeted amounts for a month or quarter in the...
See petty cash replenishment.
A second retained earnings account that reports the amount that a company has transferred from the unappropriated or regular retained earnings account.
The amount that a recurring equal amount deposited at the beginning of each period will grow to under compounded interest. An annuity due is also known as an annuity in advance.
A non-operating item resulting from the sale of this long-term asset for less than its carrying amount (or book value).
The recognition that a dollar in the present is more valuable than a dollar in the future. Present-value calculators and present-value tables assist in converting future dollars to the present value in order to make a...
Using the information generated in activity-based costing to plan and control activities and processes.
This is the sum of the beginning inventory of merchandise plus the net cost of the merchandise purchased including freight-in.
See contractual interest rate.
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